Abortion
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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NHS trusts are diverting funds meant for sexual health into paying off their deficits, a new report has warned. Research by the independent advisory group on sexual health and HIV (IAG) finds a “substantial proportion” of the £300 million earmarked for tackling sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and teenage pregnancies is not getting through to frontline… Read more »
The health secretary has rejected calls for the maximum time at which women can have an abortion to be reduced from 24 weeks. Following a private meeting with the archbishop of Westminster, Patricia Hewitt announced that the government’s position on the issue remained the same. “It has long been the parliamentary convention that proposals for… Read more »
