Legal News
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Posted 08/05/2013 ‘Never event’ is a term that has been used within our hospitals to describe events that should never happen. These include operating on the incorrect side of the...
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Posted 30/11/2009 Struggling firms should not rely on the upcoming Christmas period to alleviate the danger of insolvency, according to an expert. Andy Wood, regional chairman of insolvency body R3...
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Posted 24/03/2010 Employers could soon be prevented from asking for information about the health of job applicants as part of their recruitment process. The proposed piece of legislation was one...
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Posted 05/04/2010 Many employers are still unsure about how to respond to fit notes, even though they officially replaced the sick note as part of employment law today (April 6th...
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Posted 25/04/2013 Doctors’ leaders have said that the Government is prompting “an over simplistic and inaccurate” picture of the current pressures facing hospital A & E Departments. The BMA has requested...
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Posted 01/05/2013 Patients in the UK are to start a trial to see if an engineered virus can be used to heal their damaged and struggling hearts. This is the...
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Posted 12/12/2013 The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to carry out focused inspections of some 150 care homes and acute hospitals across England to review how people with dementia are...
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Posted 14/12/2009 Companies in the UK are likely to see the threat of insolvency become more pronounced in the first few weeks of 2010, according to an accountancy firm. Woods...
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Posted 27/05/2013 The BBC has reported that a recent study suggests that many intensive care patients suffer moderate to severe pain up to a year after leaving hospital with very...
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Posted 05/12/2013 Julie Crossley, a medical injury lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £17,000 in compensation for Mr R, a man in his 80s whose surgeons left a swab inside...
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Posted 18/03/2010 A former train driver who was forced to leave his job without a redundancy payout from his employer has been awarded compensation. Stephen Morgan was employed by DB...
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Posted 13/12/2013 New figures show that the NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time for the first time this winter. In the last week, 94.8% of patients...
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