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Feb 2018
Equal pay for equal work With reports about differences in pay between high profile men and women seemingly in the news on a daily basis at the moment, there cannot be many people in the UK who have not wondered how their pay compares to colleagues of the opposite sex. In this article, we explain…
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Feb 2018
Figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests have revealed that patients are having to wait for more than eight months for hip and knee replacements, and waiting times have risen by 40 per cent in the last four years. Some health care trusts have resorted to only referring patients for surgery if they are unable…
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Feb 2018
The Royal College of GPs has said that latest figures from the NHS have shown that the number of GPs fell from 34,091 in September to 33,872 in December, adding that many are leaving the profession as the ‘pressure has become too much’. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chairwoman of The RCGP, said that although GP…
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Feb 2018
The rise of the silver splitters was first widely reported a few years ago however new enquiries to our specialist Family Law team suggests that this phenomenon is showing no signs of slowing down. We are each increasingly acting for spouses who are at or approaching retirement age. It is questionable why so many people…
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Feb 2018
A new study suggests that high blood pressure can remain undetected in mothers with severe pre-eclampsia and that they should have their blood pressure regularly checked for a year after giving birth. The study, conducted in the Netherlands, found that of 200 women, 17.5 percent had masked hypertension. It also found that if only readings…
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Feb 2018
A major study has found that survival chances are dramatically improved by giving men with advanced prostate cancer a cheap chemotherapy drug soon after diagnosis. Docetaxel, an established chemotherapy drug, can extend lives by 25 percent if given early on in treatment. Patients are currently only given the drug after standard hormone therapy has failed,…
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