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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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There is overwhelming public support for the NHS and people are most likely to say health services should be the top spending priority for government, a new poll finds. Worryingly for Tony Blair and his likely successor, however, the public are sceptical that the NHS has improved over the past ten years, despite record investment…. Read more »
The debt crisis facing the NHS is “real and entrenched” and has resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs, Britain’s leading nursing union has warned. Over 22,000 NHS posts have been lost in the past 18 months, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has claimed, in a report published as its annual conference gets… Read more »
