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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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By Liz Stephens Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have written to the United Nations calling for an international conference to discuss the future of Afghanistan. The joint letter by the three heads of state, to UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, calls for the summit to take place before the end of the… Read more »
By Liz Stephens Gordon Brown will chair a meeting of world leaders at the United Nations (UN) general assembly on the issue of health care provision for developing countries tomorrow. The prime minister plans to push for access to free healthcare for pregnant women, young mothers and children and scrap health charges. The meeting comes… Read more »
