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Jan 2018
Audit | Recommend | Implement The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018 and overhauls data protection law in the UK. The new legislation places greater emphasis on compliance with data protection. The GDPR will affect all businesses. It places greater prominence than before on documenting compliance with security, sharing…
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Jan 2018
Figures released by NHS Digital have shown that one in ten nurses are now leaving the NHS in England each year, piling pressure on community services and understaffed hospitals. The figures represent a rise of 20 percent since 2012 and mean that the rate of leavers has exceeded the rate of starters. Although the figures…
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Jan 2018
It has emerged that NHS mistakes dating back more than two decades are still costing millions of pounds each year and for the first time in five years, the negligence bill has begun to rise, with two-thirds of claims relating to failings in maternity care. Patients’ charity Action Against Medical Accidents said the figures showed…
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Jan 2018
Many of us will make new years resolutions, to eat or drink less, see more of our family and friends and the popular one of joining a gym, but as January wears on into cold and unpredictable February many of us will see these fall by the wayside. However, you can make the decision to…
10
Jan 2018
Although patients arriving into A&E departments by ambulance should be handed over within 15 minutes, over 75,000 have had to wait at least twice as long so far this winter, and ambulance crews have reported that some have had to wait up to five hours to be seen. The delays happen when staff are not…
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Jan 2018
A memo recently leaked to The Times has said that cancer patients are facing delays because nursing staff numbers were around 40 percent down. Dr Weaver, the author of the memo, said that there were not enough nurses trained to administer chemotherapy treatment to patients, meaning a delay to treatment start times and that a…
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