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Posted 06/06/2011 A man who launched a personal injury claim against supermarket Asda after he slipped on a grape in its Peterborough store has been awarded more than £10,000. It...
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Posted 05/06/2011 Firms hoping not to fall foul of employment law regulations regarding health and safety in the workplace may like to consider bringing in outside help if they are...
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Posted 08/03/2010 Business owners could be putting themselves at risk of breaching employment law by discriminating against potential candidates based on ethnicity and other factors. New research by Milkround.com found...
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Posted 02/05/2013 The number of British women under 50 having breast cancer diagnosed annually has topped 10,000 for the first time according to Cancer Research UK.The charity says one case...
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Posted 30/05/2013 Cheap inflatable leg wraps may save the lives of patients after a stroke, according to research in Scotland. The devices regularly squeeze the legs to keep blood flowing...
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Posted 16/05/2013 Harmoni have admitted to sending patients to an alternative base two miles away when there was not sufficient GP cover in Hackney over the Easter Weekend.Reports in the...
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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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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 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 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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