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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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Diffident and abashed, Danny Alexander looked like a six-foot schoolboy who has forgotten his homework as he faced the despatch box for the first time. By Alex Stevenson Britain’s new chief secretary to the Treasury is a talented and clever individual. He was thought to be well-deserving of the Scottish secretary post, but the nation’s… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has cancelled or suspended 24 of the Labour government’s programmes it approved this year, in his first appearance at the despatch box for the coalition. David Laws’ replacement waved through 193 of the 217 projects Labour ministers had backed in the final months of their… Read more »