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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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David Davis has admitted his Cabinet career is almost certainly over. Asked on the BBC’s Question Time whether he would return to the Cabinet, Mr Davis initially dodged the question, but then, with alarming honesty, said: “I made a calculation before I did this that it would cost me certain things. “One was my career… Read more »
European Union leaders will defer a final decision on the stalled Lisbon treaty until October, a memorandum due later today is expected to confirm. Prime minister Gordon Brown and foreign secretary David Miliband are in Brussels attending the EU council meeting, which comes in the wake of Ireland’s ‘no’ vote in its referendum last week…. Read more »