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Dec 2019
New figures which are about to be released suggest that thousands of patients may have endured waits in A&E departments in excess of 12 hours for a bed within the first week of December. Senior doctors warn that the report from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) based on a selection of emergency departments,…
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Dec 2019
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that last year, over 2,000 women in this age group had babies, with the number rising from 1,619 ten years ago to 2,366 in 2018. Chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives Gill Walton, said these figures highlighted the “sustained and unrelenting pressures” on midwives, maternity…
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Dec 2019
Where more than one person owns a property, it is not uncommon for disputes to arise. However, where a conflict cannot be resolved between co-owners, only an application to the court may resolve the issue when a judge will take into account a number of factors when deciding what should happen to the property. If…
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Dec 2019
Certain formalities are required to make a will valid. When someone dies, others may seek to challenge the validity of a will, in particular if they stand to benefit if the will is set aside by the court. In addition, the testator must have capacity to make a will. They must be of sound mind…
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Dec 2019
A report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown that years have been knocked off official child life expectancy projections in the UK. As well as slashing the likelihood of children reaching the age of 100, the report revealed that a female born in 2019 is now expected to live three less years…
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Dec 2019
The study, published in medical journal The Lancet, is the most comprehensive yet to look at the long term health risks of having too much ‘bad’ cholesterol, maintaining that the earlier action is taken to reduce cholesterol through medication and changes to diet, the better. The data analysed from nearly 400,000 people from 19 countries,…
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