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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 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 06/12/2013 Ben Ward, a medical injury solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £50,000 in damages for Ms H, a 41 year old woman, for being misdiagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis...
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Posted 11/12/2009 A recent government decision to cut the amount of compensation paid to civil servants facing redundancy is to lead to legal and industrial action. The Public and Commercial...
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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 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 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 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 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 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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