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Posted 10/05/2012 As a general rule civil legal cases which go to court, including personal injury claims, are heard in public. This means that the names of those involved and...
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Posted 25/07/2012 Government ministers have agreed to a change in the law to allow Physiotherapists and Podiatrists to prescribe medication such as anti-inflammatories and painkillers without needing to go back...
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Posted 09/12/2009 A trade union has criticised proposed employment law changes designed to combat blacklisting, suggesting they do not go far enough to protect workers. The Union of Construction, Allied...
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Posted 07/11/2014 The health secretary has said he is determined to tackle avoidable waste in healthcare and a report on the subject has issued by the Academy of Medical Royal...
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Posted 08/12/2009 A trade union has urged the government to reinstate the right to compensation claims for pleural plaque sufferers as a matter of “social justice”. The Union of Construction,...
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Posted 01/10/2009 A healthcare regulator has called for improved monitoring of out-of-hours care by NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in order to avoid clinical negligence incidents. The Care Quality Commission...
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Posted 20/11/2009 An advisory group has called on workers to seek the counsel of solicitors if they feel that their rights under employment law are being compromised during the recession....
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Posted 14/09/2014 The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Wales has said that surgeries are “buckling under the strain of rising workloads”. It estimates 650,000 people in Wales found it...
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Posted 15/08/2012 Ministers in Northern Ireland are considering extending the list of people who would be entitled to a bereavement award in a fatal case. If successful, Northern Ireland will...
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Posted 05/08/2012 The Chairman for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Sir Michael Rawlins, has said that many NHS Trusts are acting unlawfully by denying patients the...
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Posted 08/11/2010 A man who suffered devastating injuries when he was knocked down by a car has been awarded £1.13 million in personal injury compensation. Slovakian national Milan Rybansky, 34,...
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Posted 13/10/2009 The redundancy rate in the UK dropped to 233,000 in the three months to August 2009, official figures have revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS),...
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