Mental Health
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 »
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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A Conservative MP’s bid to end “the last legal form of discrimination” by reforming Britain’s mental health laws has won the backing of the Commons – and the government.
If my private member’s bill is approved by the House of Commons, we will look back in a few years’ time and be amazed that this archaic nonsense was on the statute book in 2012.
