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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 announced today will allow around 550,000 women to top up their missed national insurance payments through a one-off payment. Work and pensions secretary James Purnell proposed an amendment to the pensions bill which will allow people to buy up to an additional six years of voluntary national insurance contributions, over and above those permitted… Read more »
Public sector workers look set to initiate a day of industrial action over a two per cent pay gap. Last night the national executive committee of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) agreed the first stages of what it says is a “programme of national industrial action” challenging the government’s anti-inflationary policies. It argues… Read more »
