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Lindsay van Dijk has been appointed to head up the chaplaincy and pastoral care team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which provides person-centred pastoral and spiritual care. As a head of service role, this is the most senior role a humanist pastoral carer has ever held in the NHS. She is also the… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s first and leading medical defence organisation for doctors, today announced that it has appointed Dr Matthew Lee as its new chief executive. Dr Lee will take over from Dr Christine Tomkins, who is retiring in September after a long career supporting MDU members. Dr Tomkins has been in… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Ed Balls has announced his candidacy for the Labour leadership amid strong rumours that Andy Burnham will confirm his own bid tomorrow. Mr Balls, the former children, families and schools secretary, will be standing for the leadership of his party against David and Ed Miliband, also former ministers. Launching his campaign in… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff There are reports today that the Conservatives have been forced to back down on their commitment to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA) in a bid to maintain the unity of the coalition government. Tories have long wanted to get rid of the Act, which is blamed by some commentators for creating… Read more »
