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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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Last week staff shortages across multiple British airports caused havoc as thousands sought to jet off for much anticipated half-term holidays. According to data firm Cirium, an estimated 750 flights due to leave the UK were cancelled while 466 return flights were scrapped. A senior source at London Gatwick, the UK’s second busiest airport, told The… Read more »
Later this month a slew of rail strikes are set to result in what could wind up as the largest outbreak of industrial action in Britain since 1989. Unions say their actions, which they claim are a response to pay freezes while inflation soars, could lead to a near shutdown of England’s railways for three… Read more »
