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Apr 2018
The eagerly awaited new Practice Direction on Insolvency Proceedings (PDIP 2018) has been published today, 25 April 2018, and will come into force with immediate effect. The PDIP 2018 replaces all previous practice directions, practice statements and notes relating to insolvency proceedings (although it does not affect other practice directions in the CPR, the Practice…
20
Apr 2018
Much of the publicity surrounding the General Data Protection Regulation has focused on what needs to be done in the run-up to 25 May 2018 when the new data protection regime comes into force. However, it is what happens beyond this date that really matters because it is only when the processes and procedures introduced…
18
Apr 2018
Official figures have revealed that Accident & Emergency waiting times are at their worst level since records began, and experts are saying that many hospitals are still struggling to cope with the recent ‘eternal winter’. 29.1 per cent of Leeds Teaching Hospitals patients waited to be seen for four hours or longer last month. The…
18
Apr 2018
Figures obtained through freedom of information have revealed that 82 wards across the NHS have been moth-balled due to a lack of funding, enough to fill two hospitals. The number of empty beds in September 2017 had tripled in four years, 1,429 compared to 503 in September 2013. The Society for Acute Medicine’s president, Dr…
11
Apr 2018
A survey of 507 GPs has revealed that half have said that they have been blocked from sending patients for urgent cancer scans and 46 per cent said that at least one referral had been downgraded or blocked in the last 12 months. One GP reported having their attempts at referring a child for urgent…
11
Apr 2018
Male cancer charity Orchard has commissioned a report, which has found a “worrying trend” in late diagnoses of prostate cancer, with 37 per cent of cases being diagnosed at stages three and four. Recent figures released showed that for the first time in the UK, more men were dying from prostate cancer than female deaths…
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