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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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With less than a week to go until Londoners choose their next mayor incumbent Ken Livingstone has won a lead in the latest poll. The survey of 1,010 adults in London carried out on Wednesday and Thursday by Ipsos Mori handed Mr Livingstone a four-point lead over main challenger Boris Johnson. According to the poll… Read more »
Conservative London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson has insisted he will not change neighbourhood policing teams after pressure from Labour. Comments in the Local Government Chronicle newspaper from the Tories’ leader on the London Assembly, Richard Barnes, had suggested the Conservatives may consider cutting neighbourhood policing in the capital’s safest areas. Home secretary Jacqui Smith jumped… Read more »
