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Give trainees more support to avoid burnout says MDU

A survey of 67,000 doctors in training which shows worrying levels of burnout and exhaustion among the medical profession should concern us all, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today. The GMC’s annual National Training Survey found that the risk of burnout among medical trainees is now at its worst since it was first tracked in 2018…. Read more »

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Political red tape a threat to shooting in Wales

BASC has labelled the launch of a call for evidence on gamebird releasing in Wales as an “attempt to restrict shooting through red tape” and vowed to fight “restriction proposals” arising from it. The call for evidence focuses on pheasant and red-legged partridge, and has been launched by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to “inform the… Read more »

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Edlington torture boys trigger political spat

By politics.co.uk staff The prosecution of two brothers for the torture and beating of two young boys has triggered a wave of recrimination in British political life. David Cameron seized on the case, which concluded today with both boys being given indeterminate sentences, as a sign of Britain’s ‘broken society’, as he unveiled the latest… Read more »

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Tories roll out married tax breaks policy

By politics.co.uk staff The Conservatives went head-to-head with the government on the topic of children and families today, with a pledge to introduce the married couples’ tax break. Timed to coincide with the green paper on families and relationships, where children’s secretary Ed Balls pledged more support for fathers and clarified rights for grandparents, the… Read more »