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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 »
BASC has described a decision by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to restrict the ability of conservationists and wildlife managers to control magpies, jays and jackdaws as a retrograde blow for conservation. From July 1, those who wish to control magpies, jays and jackdaws to protect species of conservation concern must now apply for a specific… Read more »
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Patricia Hewitt has written to two national newspapers to deny reports that the government plans to privatise the NHS by stealth. Mrs Hewitt says that an advert placed by the Department of Health (DH) upon which the reports were based contained “drafting errors” and had been withdrawn. The advert in the Official Journal of European… Read more »
The Welsh assembly government is to hold a public inquiry into the country’s ambulance service after the health minister accidentally voted against his own policy. After arguing strongly against Plaid Cymru’s calls for a public investigation into the service’s problems, Labour AM Brian Gibbons pressed the wrong button and ended up voting for the motion…. Read more »
