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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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MPs have claimed there is little transparency about the way the Post Office is financed by taxpayers’ money. The business and enterprise committee today published a report also warning that the independent review of the mail services and Postcomm must take full account of the effects of any reforms of mail services on the post… Read more »
The government has narrowly averted losing a Commons vote calling for the planned Post Office closures to be suspended. The Conservative vote was defeated by 268 to 288, slashing the government’s majority of 67, and at least 19 Labour MPs voted with the opposition. Shadow business secretary Alan Duncan said the government had “just squeaked… Read more »
