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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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MPs have accepted some minor changes to their expenses system. The Commons rejected Conservative plans to take almost all second home items, like furniture, off the list of possible claims members of parliament can make. But MPs accepted government plans to make the National Audit Office auditor of their expenses and to cap annual expenses… Read more »
Alan Johnson has unveiled a ten-year strategy to give people at the end of their lives more choice about where they die. The £268 million scheme will ensure that community nursing services are available 24 hours a day so that more people can be cared for and die at home if they wish. Health and… Read more »
