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Feb 2015

England’s NHS foundation trusts in deficit by £321m

According to the health regulator Monitor, more than 50% of all foundation trusts in England are now in the red. Monitor’s quarterly report, which looked at 147 trusts in the last quarter of 2014, said that hiring expensive agency staff was having a significant impact on their budgets. The report found that the deficit of…

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20
Feb 2015

Why Choose Chadwick Lawrence’s Family Team?

If you are going through a divorce or separation how do you choose who to turn to for support and advice in making difficult decisions about the future?  There are three reasons why you should choose us:- Our Expertise We have one of the most experienced teams of Family Lawyers in the region.  We have…

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20
Feb 2015

Our Top 3 Family Law Myths

#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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19
Feb 2015

Urgent targets for cancer therapy missed by NHS for whole year

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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19
Feb 2015

Study finds inducing babies at 37 weeks cuts risk of cerebral palsy by more than 25%

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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18
Feb 2015

CQC reports on progress of ‘Hard Truths’

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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