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Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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A slim majority of Conservative delegates in Bournemouth today voted to back a ban on marketing to children, during the party’s first interactive conference debate. The television-style discussion, hosted by TV doctor David Ball, is a key part of David Cameron’s efforts to jazz up the annual event and focus on ‘softer’ political issues such… Read more »
A leading Tory donor at the centre of the police probe into the cash-for-honours affair has been questioned under caution, it was reported today. Robert Edmiston, the head of automotive IM group, loaned the Conservative party £2 million, and has since said he does not want to be repaid the money. The multi-millionaire was nominated… Read more »
