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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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The health secretary has denied the Department of Health (DoH) has axed controversial plans to involve private sector treatment centres in the NHS. The director general has recommended seven schemes are dropped because they do not offer value for money or are poorly used. In a ministerial statement to MPs, Alan Johnson insisted the government… Read more »
The government claims dental services are improving, with more patients able to access an NHS dentist. The chief dental officer today published a report outlining how dental services have been improved since the government first pledged to reform the sector last year. However, his positive claims have been strongly contested by opposition MPs and consumer… Read more »
