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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 29/11/2013 Body piercings have been used to control wheelchairs and computers in a move scientists believe could transform the way people interact with the world after paralysis. The movement...
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Posted 20/12/2012 Ashtons Legal is leading the way in taking out-of-hours medical providers to task and ensuring that in future when things go wrong it is easier to work out...
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Posted 17/12/2009 The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (Ucatt) has voiced concerns that a government dossier advocating continuing the ban on compensation claims for pleural plaque victims is...
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Posted 22/02/2013 Ben Ward, a medical injury solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained compensation for a woman in her 50s who suffered pain, and unsuccessful treatment, at the hands of...
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Posted 07/05/2013 Sophie Bales, a medical injury solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained an £8,000 settlement for a 40 year old woman who underwent cryotherapy to remove seven moles from...
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Posted 18/12/2009 Workers with ethnic minority backgrounds may be increasingly threatened by redundancy as a result of the recession, according to new research. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)...
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Posted 10/12/2009 A trade body has called on the government to do more to promote equity release to help older people cope with their increasingly diminished pension income. Safe Home...
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Posted 23/12/2013 Health services provided in the community are to be inspected more often by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The inspections have been announced following the movement of medical...
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Posted 20/05/2015 At long last, we have a European decision which has clarified what the meaning of “establishment” is for collective redundancy purposes. This decision has overturned the surprising Employment...
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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 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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