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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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It’s difficult to be critical when there’s a new baby in the family – but one of the toughest problems facing modern Britain remains the dramatically high figures for teenage pregnancy. By Chris Bryant The UK figures are the highest in Europe, five times higher than in the Netherlands, twice that in France and three… Read more »
by Peter Wozniak The education secretary has expressed optimism over the progress of his ‘free school’ reforms, despite only a small number of proposals likely to come to come to fruition by September 2011. Just 16 proposals have progressed to the next stage of development with a view to starting up at the beginning of… Read more »
