Insights
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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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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 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 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 27/05/2015 The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital has apologized to the grieving husband of a woman who died after surgery, admitting: “We could have done more and our care could...
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Posted 02/12/2009 A finance group has advised older people that equity release need not only be an option considered by those suffering financial hardship. Saga Personal Finance has conducted a...
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Posted 08/04/2010 Employers have been reminded that they must adhere to new employment law governing cranes or risk being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Under the regulations...
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Posted 28/03/2010 Small businesses in the UK are worried about their likelihood of insolvency should another recession occur. This was the discovery of recent research by trade organisation R3, which...
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