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Campaigns/parliamentary briefings

The MDU provides its members with an authoritative voice in medical forums, with the government, with regulators and other influential bodies. The following are some of the campaigns we have been involved in.

Health and Social Care Bill briefing, second reading, House of Lords

A briefing issued by the Medical Defence Union ahead of the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Lords on October 11 2011.

Medical Defence Union briefing paper - Health and Social Care Bill

Health & Social Care Bill needs to address indemnity for clinical negligence.

Medical Defence Union response to Equity and Excellence – Liberating the NHS

This short paper sets out comments from the MDU on two medico-legal aspects of the strategy for the NHS set out in the White Paper Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.

End discretionary indemnity for clinical negligence claims

The MDU believes that doctors, dentists and patients should have the reassurance of a contractual guarantee of indemnity for clinical negligence claims.

An end to spiralling legal costs?

The rising costs of claimants' legal fees in negligence claims defended by the NHS or the Medical Defence Union (MDU) means that lawyers frequently earn more from a case than patients receive in damages.

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