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More GPs are contacting the Medical Defence Union (MDU) for advice about disclosing information to online pharmacies when their patients are prescribed weight loss medications. With the popularity of drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide as weight loss aids, GPs are increasingly being approached by online pharmacies to check if there is anything in a person’s medical… Read more »
Following the publication today of a public accounts committee report into NHS financial sustainability, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said the NHS should enact long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. The MDU was one of the few healthcare organisations to submit written evidence to the committee. Dr Mike Devlin, MDU head of… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson The A-level qualification risks becoming defunct despite its status in schools as a “means to an end”, a report by the Civitas thinktank claims. Its research among senior A-level teachers suggests only a slim minority believe more able students or better teachers have explained the steady rise in grades. Instead the ready… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The Tories want school league tables to be replaced by a points system which would weigh traditional academic subjects over those seen as easier, like media studies. In a set of proposals presented by shadow education secretary Michael Gove, the party shrugged off the reliance on a league table system, which ranks… Read more »
