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Feb 2015
#1 – The Quickie Divorce Thanks to the sensational reporting of high profile divorce cases in which it is often claimed that Mr Celebrity was divorced from Mrs Celebrity in just 105 seconds, members of our family team are often quizzed as to why they have to wait 3 to 4 months for the same…
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Feb 2015
Official figures have shown that throughout the whole of 2014, a key cancer target has been missed by the NHS. Even though a minimum of 85% of patients should begin treatment within 62 days of a GP referral, the target was missed in each quarter of the year, with just 83.8% were treated within time…
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Feb 2015
A study piloted in Denmark has suggested that inducing babies at 37 weeks can lower the risk of the baby dying or developing a serious health condition, such as cerebral palsy. The research which was conducted over a 13 year period, and which analysed 770,926 births, found that there was a drop of 26 per…
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Feb 2015
The Care Quality Commission has made profound changes to the method in which it inspects hospitals since the report on the unacceptable care at Mid Staffordshire by Sir Robert Francis. When Hard Truths was published in January 2014, most of the improvements had been put in place. A new Chief Inspector of Hospitals had been…
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Feb 2015
A report by the Dr Foster data analysis company says that hundreds of deaths may have occurred if urgent measures had not been put in place at 11 failing hospital trusts in England. The report, which focused on under-performing hospitals identified following the Stafford Hospital scandal, showed that average death rates fell after emergency interventions…
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Feb 2015
A review, led by Sir Robert Francis QC, has heard “shocking” stories about staff being afraid to speak up, because they are apprehensive about being intimidated, ignored or bullied. Sir Robert warned that a “significant proportion” of NHS workers would not voice their concerns, either because they felt nothing would be done, or because they…
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