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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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The number of young people breaching their anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) has increased to more than half over the past two years, new figures show. The latest Home Office statistics reveal that between April 1999 and December 2005, 57 per cent of under-18s and 41 per cent of adults breached their Asbos, compared to 47… Read more »
David Cameron today accused Tony Blair of using the politics of fear to cover up his failures in nine years as prime minister. The Conservative leader attacked Mr Blair for abandoning the vision, hope and ideas for change that won him the election in 1997 – and said his party was now the future. He… Read more »