Defence Procurement
Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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Two Royal Navy aircraft carriers will be delayed by two years, defence secretary, John Hutton has announced. In a statement to MP’s Mr Hutton said construction would proceed at a slower pace to protect jobs for longer as the defence budget tightens. The shipbuilding project, due to begin next March, will cost £4 billion. The… Read more »
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is “throwing away millions” of tax payers money on poorly designed private finance initiative (PFI) projects, according to national audit office (NAO) statistics released today. Tim Burr, head of the National Audit Office, said “The department needs to be more alert to the risks that can emerge once the project… Read more »