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Nygi National tragedy : figures show large rise in people dying while on NHS waiting list
Prof Rachel Jenkins letter 9 February advocates for the expansion of medical school places in the UK, and this should indeed be a priority to preserve the medical workforce of the future. But since 2010, medical student numbers have increased by 31% 鈥?with only a 0.4% increase in positions for the clinical academics who train them.Besides university staff and infrastructure, medical students require the support of stanley tumbler junior doctors in their workplace-based placements. But this is impossible to provide, with increasing numbers of students on the wards coupled with the pressure on service provision. As a doctor in her first year of practice, I am dismayed to have to turn students away, but I am aware that they often do not have the support on the ward to achieve their curriculum outcomes.We do medical stude stanley taza nts, junior doctors, medical academics and ultimately patients a disservice when we use medical student places, and the funding for them, as the only measure of the quantity of high-quality medical education that is able to be delivered in th stanley cup e UK.Dr Anna HarveyNorth Cumbria integrated care NHS trust Weng Shakespeare in lockdown: did he write King Lear in plague quarantine
The year 2016 seems to have provided a helping hand for the increasing discrimination against Indonesias lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The constitutional court is currently mulling over a petition to revise the criminal code to make intercourse between same-sex couples illegal.The conservative Islamic group driving the petition, Family Love Alliance Aliansi Cinta Keluarga , argues that the countrys current laws lean too heavily towards western values, which they see as at odds with ours in Indonesia. Patrialis Akbar, one of the judges in the constitutional court, has said: Our freedom is limited by moral values as well as religious values 鈥?Were not a secular country 鈥?this country acknowledges stanley canada religion. Indonesias communication and information ministry, with recommendations from the national police, religious affairs minist stanley quencher ry and the Islamic group Majelis Ulama Indonesia who issued a fatwa [a ruling o stanley uk n a point of Islamic law] against LGBT practices in 2014 , has plans to ban gay dating apps such as Grindr. This comes just months after gay-themed emoji and stickers were removed from a popular messaging app in the country.This year alone, government officials have said that there is no room in Indonesia for the LGBT movement, that it is worse than a nuclear bomb, and that LGBT people should be barred from university campuses. In February, Vice President Jusuf Kalla asked the United Nations Development Programme to not finance LGBT community organisat |
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