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Clinical negligence liabilities overshadow public finances MDU warns

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »

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Brown and Cameron may have made the right call in avoiding ganging up on Clegg
Analysis: Ignoring Clegg might pay off

Despite the polling upheavals of the last week, Gordon Brown and David Cameron’s determination to tackle each other fatally compromised any expected demolition of Nick Clegg during the second televised leaders’ debate. By Alex Stevenson As anticipated, the Liberal Democrat leader was attacked by his Conservative and Labour counterparts on his opposition to a like-for-like… Read more »

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Lib Dems and Tories neck-and-neck in polls
The polls: The Clegg effect continues

By politics.co.uk staff A full week after the TV debate which saw Nick Clegg catapulted to the forefront of British politics, his Liberal Democrat party continues to have unprecedented levels of support. As Labour and Conservatives, and some of their supporters in the press, turn their guns on the Lib Dem leader, there appears to… Read more »