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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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The government’s optimism on bovine TB has frustrated a committee of MPs worried by the “serious nature of the disease”. The environment, food and rural affairs committee accuses it of appearing complacent over the nature of the threat following the publication of the government’s response to its assessment of the situation. “We are extremely disappointed… Read more »
The government is prepared to extend flexitime working rules to fathers in a bid to improve Britain’s work-life balance, a report claims. According to the Independent newspaper ministers are considering extending the right to ask for flexible working for parents with children up to the age of 16. This would improve the current limit, which… Read more »
