Prime minister's questions
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 »
During Prime Minister’s Questions, Leader of the Liberal Democrats raised the issue of dental care, particularly for children. He points out that in some areas, less than ‘2 in 5 children were seen by dentists in the past year. This is a scandal’. Sunak retorts that the situation has improved since the Conservatives came into… Read more »
During Prime Minister’s questions, Conservative MP David Davis, blames the junior doctors on strike for ‘causing harm’ and breaking Hippocratic Oath ‘The first line of Hippocratic Oath is ‘first do no harm’. When does the Prime Minister think the BMA abandoned this central tenet of their profession?’ The Prime Minister thanks Davis for his comments… Read more »