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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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Will Diane Abbott succeed in her bid for a frontbench role?
Abbott will stand for shadow Cabinet

By Peter Wozniak Diane Abbott has confirmed her bid to leave the backbenches behind for a shadow Cabinet position. The Hackney MP came last in the leadership race, but will hope that her rise in stature over the campaign will be enough to plant herself on the opposition front bench. Ms Abbott is on the… Read more »

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Douglas Alexander worried about lack of centre-left 'spectacle'
Tax-and-spend troubles Alexander

By Alex Stevenson Labour needs to convince voters it will not automatically raise taxation and increase spending when in power, Douglas Alexander has said. The party’s general election campaign coordinator told a fringe event at Labour’s autumn conference in Manchester that centre-left parties across Europe needed to be “far more effective” in justifying the need… Read more »