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Dec 2018
Many businesses in the United Kingdom offer insurance benefits for employees in the event of their long-term or permanent incapacity during employment. This is commonly known as permanent health insurance (PHI) and typically provides a proportion of full pay to an employee for an often significant length of time where they are unable to work…
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Dec 2018
A recent case before the Employment Tribunal has highlighted the risk to employers of placing too much emphasis on the results of a drug test when dismissing employees to gross misconduct. In the instant case, a bus driver with 20 years of service consented to a random drug test by his employer. A saliva…
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Dec 2018
Two patients have been diagnosed with cancer after receiving transplants from the same donor at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. One of the patients has since died and the hospital have said that the ‘tragic outcome’ could not have been anticipated. NHS Blood and Transplant Service have said it does all it possibly can to check for…
11
Dec 2018
Following a reduction in take-up of the flu jab on last year, Public Health England is urging the over 65s and pregnant women to get the vaccine this side of Christmas, before the virus usually starts to circulate. It has been suggested that the vaccine will prove to be more effective than in previous years…
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Dec 2018
A report by the All.Can cancer initiative, which is chaired by the Patients Association, has warned that four out of ten cancer patients in the UK are misdiagnosed before their disease is detected. The report, which is calling for more investment in early testing, warns that 21 per cent of patients surveyed said they had…
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Dec 2018
Laboratory trials have concluded that some superbugs which were thought to be unresponsive to antibiotics may be resilient. However, researchers are now hopeful that they can test to identify the infections that initially respond to the drugs, but eventually regain power, allowing doctors to target the bug at its weakest point. There is a global…
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