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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has welcomed a vote in the House of Lords to strengthen the ‘safe-space’ provisions under which healthcare professionals can take part in investigations that take place following a patient safety incident. Dr Matthew Lee, MDU chief executive said: “The need to move away from a culture of blame, to one… Read more »
Foundation Year 1 members (FY1) of the Medical Defence Union (MDU) have raised over £30,000 which will be divided between the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and the Doctors’ Support Network, two charities which provide health, wellbeing and financial support to doctors and medical students across the UK. The MDU reduced the first-year subscription from £10 to £5 for… Read more »
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The government has been urged to do more to ensure that women are given more choice in where they give birth. A survey of 26,000 women who gave birth in January and February conducted by the Healthcare Commission revealed that half were not given the choice of a home-birth. Government guidelines stipulate that women are… Read more »
New GPs will be parachuted into deprived areas in a bid to reduce health inequalities, the government announced today. Health secretary Alan Johnson said today the first new GP practices will open within a year. In October, in his first major speech at the Department of Health (DoH), Mr Johnson made it a government ambition… Read more »
