Armed Forces

Featured
MDU logo
MDU welcomes step forward for openness and learning in NHS

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 »

Featured
MDU logo
MDU offers free membership for doctors fleeing war in the Ukraine

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 »

Latest articles

News
General David Richards will take over as chief defence staff in October
Army chief promoted to top military post

By politics.co.uk staff General Sir David Richards will take over from Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup as the most senior military officer in Britain this October, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed. The current head of the Army’s promotion will follow the completion of the strategic defence review, which defence secretary Liam Fox… Read more »

News
Sun setting... on Britain's war-fighting capability?
‘Belligerent’ Fox wants war-fighting capability

By Alex Stevenson Liam Fox has made the case for maintaining Britain’s present balanced military approach, sending strong signals that Britain’s strategic defence review is likely to avoid making a decisive break from the past. The defence secretary laid out the utility of military power across the spectrum of foreign policy – from prevention and… Read more »