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Plans to limit legal fees in dental claims a welcome first step says DDU Responding to the publication of a government consultation on limiting claimant’s legal fees for cases valued up to £25,000, John Makin, head of the DDU, said: “This consultation has been a long time coming and is a welcome first step. However, for a… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Mr Jerard Ross as head of Scottish affairs to champion the interests of the MDU’s growing number of members in Scotland. Over the last four years Scottish membership has grown almost 30%, according to the MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation. Jerard, who has worked at the… Read more »
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James Purnell sought to unify Labour supporters in his speech to conference this afternoon by presenting them with the consequences of defeat at the next election. The work and pensions secretary reminded party supporters of the “ghosts” of past defeats and the “bitter frustration” of being out of government. Mr Purnell said the party had… Read more »
Foreign secretary David Miliband believes a “corrosive sense of fatalism” is affecting British society. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Manchester, Mr Miliband warned that “the biggest task of this conference is to combat this sense of fatalism”. He told a Fabian Society audience the pessimism shown before the Olympics… Read more »
