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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) responded to the GMC workforce report 2024 which found there needs to be more education and training opportunities for locally employed doctors, many of whom qualified from outside the UK. Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, MDU head of advisory services, said: “The GMC’s latest report highlights that the medical workforce is evolving into one… Read more »
Tomorrow, MPs will vote for the first time on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – the first vote on assisted dying in the Commons in nearly a decade. Introduced by Kim Leadbeater MBE, the Labour MP for Spen Valley, the Bill will allow adults who are terminally ill with six months or… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Andy Burnham has tried to turn the tides of the Labour leadership contest with a programme for ‘aspirational socialism’. The agenda, which envisages new regulations on work experience, free public transport for teenagers in full-time education, resources for apprenticeships and support for a graduate tax, is an attempt to turn the tide… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The deputy prime minister is facing hostile fire from inside and outside his party, while he holds the fort during David Cameron’s holiday. Labour is now openly encouraging Liberal Democrat MPs to defect to the opposition benches after a ghastly weekend saw the party frozen by accusations that former leader Charlie Kennedy… Read more »
