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After a successful campaign to improve the safe space provisions in the Health and Care Bill, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) explains why this is a step forward for patient safety. Following its return from the House of Lords to the House of Commons this week, both chambers have now agreed that coroners should not routinely… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, announced today it will be offering to waive the first year of membership subscriptions for doctors who are fleeing the Ukraine or other conflict zones and are looking to resume practice in NHS roles. This follows news that the GMC is planning to fast track… Read more »
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Labour leader Keir Starmer hit out at Boris Johnson over reports that Downing Street hosted a Christmas party last December while London was in a Stage 3 lockdown. Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions today in the Commons, Starmer said: “Does the prime minister really expect the country to believe that while people were banned from… Read more »
Conservative backbenchers have expressed their anger over comments made by Jenny Harries, warning people to cut down on “unnecessary socialising”. Harries, the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency and head of NHS Test and Trace, made the comments during the morning broadcast rounds. The government denied this morning that it shared Harries’ position… Read more »
