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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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The government has been blamed for the fall in the number of post office branches, and the implications this has for local communities. In an exclusive politics.co.uk feature on the restructuring of the post office, shadow trade and industry secretary Alan Duncan and Liberal Democrat trade and industry spokeswoman Susan Kramer launched stinging attacks on… Read more »
The government claims that the Post Office network’s financial losses result from ‘people…increasingly choosing to live their lives in different ways’. But Post Office Ltd’s problems have been increased by losing government business on passports, TV licences, car tax discs and pensions and benefits, together worth £168 million. The government has clearly had a role… Read more »
