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Lindsay van Dijk has been appointed to head up the chaplaincy and pastoral care team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which provides person-centred pastoral and spiritual care. As a head of service role, this is the most senior role a humanist pastoral carer has ever held in the NHS. She is also the… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s first and leading medical defence organisation for doctors, today announced that it has appointed Dr Matthew Lee as its new chief executive. Dr Lee will take over from Dr Christine Tomkins, who is retiring in September after a long career supporting MDU members. Dr Tomkins has been in… Read more »
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Conservative leader David Cameron hopes to “fight back” against sliding poll numbers as his party’s conference gets underway in Blackpool. Mr Cameron’s party has been struggling in the polls since Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as prime minister earlier this year and faces ongoing speculation about the prospect of a snap general election. After two… Read more »
The Conservative party has unveiled proposals to hand responsibility for out-of-hours care to GPs. Plans mooted as party members gather in Blackpool for their annual conference include a renegotiation of GPs’ contract to include a commissioning role rather than a full return to the previous personal obligation of individual doctors. There is also provision for… Read more »
