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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 »
Research by new longevity think tank Phoenix Insights reveals millions at risk of struggling later in life without fresh interventions Data from inaugural Longer Lives Index finds over 10 million people fear their ability to stay in work up to retirement 7 million people expect to rely significantly on money from friends and family in… Read more »
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David Cameron has arrived in Afghanistan in a surprise visit to British troops deployed in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. The Conservative leader said his trip, which was kept secret for security reasons, would be devoted to “listening, learning and showing our support for what is being done”. His party has expressed concern in… Read more »
Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has criticised Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, in the strongest condemnation of the Israeli offensive made so far by a British official. Speaking yesterday from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Mr Howells said Israel’s attacks against the militant group Hizbullah were not “surgical strikes”, stressing that the military offensive was killing a… Read more »
