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MDU scrutinising revised guidance for doctors on good medical practice

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 »

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BASC expels member for wildlife crime and firearms offences

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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Tuition fee ‘decapitation’ plan against Lib Dems

By politics.co.uk staff The National Union of Students (NUS) is drawing up plans to persuade students away from supporting the Liberal Democrats at the next general election. President Aaron Porter told the Observer newspaper his team would bid to highlight the Lib Dems’ U-turn on tuition fees by focusing their efforts on Lib Dems in… Read more »

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Higher education pressure on Lib Dems continues to mount
Lib Dems ‘plotted tuition fees U-turn’ before general election

By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrats planned to abandon their tuition fees pledge before the general election, it has emerged. A book written by Conservative MP Rob Wilson being serialised by the Guardian newspaper has revealed the party planned to ditch its higher education “headache” in secret preparations for coalition negotiations. The news is deeply… Read more »