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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 »

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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 »

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Brett Lock: Free speech 'does not imply that there is a positive obligation on other parties to facilitate your speech or expression'.
Comment: Stopping ‘gay cure’ ads is not a suppression of free speech

Despite the protests of the Core Issues Trust, a ‘gay reparative therapy’ group, Transport for London’s (TfL) decision, backed by mayor Boris Johnson, not to put up their posters promising to cure homosexuality on the London Underground is not an infringement of their freedom of speech.