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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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By politics.co.uk staff The prime minister has been accused of cutting himself off from the electorate after it emerged Downing Street removed a link allowing members of the public to email him from the website. The Downing Street website now only reveals a postal address and fax number. “We have decided at this time that… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The government plans to move towards a “historic universal service commitment” bringing broadband and digital services to all homes, culture secretary Andy Burnham has said. Mr Burnham told the Commons the move, which will include developing options up to 2mb/s, will be modelled on the approach to “postal services and telephones in… Read more »
