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Mar 2020
CAFCASS, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service have published new figures which state that compared with last January, numbers of new private law family cases have increased by 16%. A staggering 4,118 cases were received by CAFCASS concerning a total of 6,064 children in the month of January 2020. Upon reviewing the…
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Mar 2020
The nurse, who worked at the Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre, has been stuck off after being found guilty of a string of errors. The centre is run for the NHS by private healthcare company Care UK. Following a review by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Mr Wynburne was found guilty of a number of…
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Mar 2020
Following a tribunal, a London NHS trust has been ordered to pay £870,740 to the leading heart doctor after he was sacked for whistleblowing about safety concerns following a patient’s death. Dr Kevin Beatt, considered to be one of the most respected consultant cardiologists in the UK, was sacked from Croydon Health Services in 2012…
10
Mar 2020
In a world first, doctors at Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science have used the CRISPR gene-editing tool inside the human body, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. The procedure was recently undertaken at the institute on a patient with an inherited…
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Mar 2020
Scientists in the US say the simple blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease early in patients visiting their doctor with deteriorating memory. They added that the test, which is faster and more accurate than current methods, could be used by practitioners within the next five years. The test measures levels of a protein called tau…
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Mar 2020
A government inquiry has found that in breach of official Nice guidelines, women in labour are being refused epidurals. The investigation by the Department of Health also found that women may not be being kept fully informed that should they choose give birth in a midwife-led unit or at home, they may have to be…
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