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Oct 2020
The sector’s most senior figure has warned that overstretched health visitors have been forced to care for up to 2,400 families with newborns at a time, which is ten times the recommended number. Prompting fears that generations of babies could face a troubled future, Cheryll Adams, chief executive of the Institute of Health Visiting, said…
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Oct 2020
The head of the government’s vaccine task force has said in an attempt to clarify the public’s ‘misguided’ perception of the programme’s aim, that less than half of the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus. Kate Bingham, chair of the UK vaccine task force, said the government was aiming to vaccinate around…
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Oct 2020
Leading surgeons are warning that there could be a “tsunami” of cancelled NHS operations over the winter period as the NHS copes with rising numbers of coronavirus patients. Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England say they don’t believe the NHS are able to meet targets to restore surgery back to near pre-pandemic…
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Oct 2020
Boris Johnson has been warned not to pursue a “have our cake and eat it” policy of thinking it can deliver Covid care within existing budgets. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said the additional £20.5bn that was pledged to the NHS in 2018 was no longer enough to deal with the additional pressures…
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Oct 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is the UK’s regulatory body for all things ‘data protection’, is currently running a public consultation on its draft Statutory guidance which would, when finalised and approved, govern how, and the reasoning behind why, it may take regulatory action against organisations who do not comply with the Data Protection…
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Oct 2020
A prudent business should have robust HR procedures in place; ready to deal with employee issues of conduct, capability or performance, in the interests of fairness. A structured approach is likely to get to the root of the problem and affords the employer and the employee ample opportunity to state their case. But what if…
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