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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 »
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Plans to create electronic patient records across the NHS were “unachievable” and “unrealistic”, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has concluded. The national programme for IT in the NHS is proving to be an “enormous challenge”, the report notes, but says its original goals remain feasible and that progress is being made. When the scheme… Read more »
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been accused of “hypocrisy” over its treatment of international cluster bomb agreements. Landmine Action director Simon Conway made the claim days before a major conference in Dublin, when world leaders will finalise the text of an international treaty to ban the use and stockpiling of cluster munitions. During the… Read more »
