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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 »
The first business of the day in which Boris Johnson resigned was culture questions. Labour’s Emma Lewell-Buck highlighted the issue of hunger, with charities filling the gap left by the state. She described the government’s approach to tackling hunger as “an abdication of governance”.
On the day that prime minister Boris Johnson has announced his resignation, Labour’s Barry Sheerman described the UK to be in the “greatest crisis any of us can remember”. Sheerman noted that there was no education minister and given his experience in the area, offered to become an interim minister. Paymaster general Michael Ellis turned… Read more »
