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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 19/08/2012 NHS Wales reports that men dialling 999 to report hangovers are among a list of inappropriate calls putting emergency services under sustained pressure. The Welsh Ambulance Service has...
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Posted 20/06/2012 With another dog bite case hitting the local headlines (click here to read the full story), it is perhaps as good a time as any to revisit this...
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Posted 09/10/2014 Antibiotic prescriptions and cases of resistant bacteria in England have continued to soar despite dire warnings and campaigns, figures show. Public Health England found a 6% increase in prescriptions...
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Posted 06/07/2014 Dying need ‘free social care’ say cancer campaigners A report issued by Macmillan Cancer Support says that providing free social care could save the NHS £69m a year...
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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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