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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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People must take responsibility for their own health if the NHS is not to become overwhelmed in the future, the prime minister said today. Tony Blair noted that a large proportion of illnesses treated on the NHS, from cirrhosis of the liver to strokes and type-two diabetes, were caused by people’s individual actions. And he… Read more »
Low-quality meat, fizzy drinks and chocolate will be off the menu at English schools from September under tough new guidelines announced today. Pupils would be restricted to having deep-fried food, such as chips, twice a week, and would have at least two portions of fruit or fresh vegetables with every meal, education secretary Alan Johnson… Read more »
