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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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Passenger profiling would be akin to introducing a new offence of “travelling while Asian”, one of Britain’s top Muslim police officers has warned. Metropolitan police chief superintendent Ali Desai said proposals to allow airport security staff to target specific people could alienate large sections of society. He was speaking after reports suggest the Department for… Read more »
Police officers are preparing to lobby ministers for extensive new powers to dispense summary justice in the fight against anti-social behaviour and crime. The Association of Chief Police Officers’ (Acpo’s) lead on modernisation, Mark Rowley, believes constables should be given the power to solve crime, and the courts be left to scrutinising their actions. However,… Read more »
