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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 »
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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The communities secretary Hazel Blears has promised flood-hit areas they will receive sufficient support to rebuild. Visiting weather-torn areas in Sheffield, Ms Blears told reporters: “It is absolutely vital that the local authorities, who have been in the lead and have done some fantastic work, are supported by a complete cross-government effort, and we’ll be… Read more »
Local government leaders are concerned a new method of calculating immigration will leave public services with a funding shortfall. The leaders of four local authorities have written to the Treasury to complain that the new method of measuring migration is flawed and produces “perverse results”. The figures, complied by the Office for National Statistics (ONS),… Read more »
