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Apr 2017
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has recently considered the question of whether there is a higher threshold for an employer who seeks to dismiss an employee fairly for ‘some other substantial reason’. Under the Employment Rights Act 1996, there are five potentially fair reasons to dismiss, the final one being ‘some other substantial reason’ which…
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Apr 2017
Every year we renew our home insurance, car insurance, life insurance etc. to cover an occurrence with may or may not happen as a safeguard or a ‘just in case’. As a business or company owner you try to cover all aspect of safeguarding your assets but it is also important to consider what may…
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Apr 2017
A study has revealed that GPs are failing to spot cancer in tens of thousands of patients and seven in ten people who had the illness picked up in casualty had it missed by their GP. Around 32,000 of these patients visited their GP three times without a diagnosis. The research was undertaken by Public…
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Apr 2017
It has emerged that the hospital trust being investigated in relation to seven baby deaths over a two year period, was warned ten years ago that it needed to improve its maternity services and that there were issues with the way it carried out foetal heart monitoring. The Health Care Commission became involved in the…
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Apr 2017
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that a cluster of baby deaths, which all occurred at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, will be investigated. Mr Hunt has asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to review the seven deaths which occurred within a two year period and deemed as avoidable, to ensure they have…
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Apr 2017
Picture a bookshelf standing freely in a room. The books are a person’s life memories; long term memories at the bottom, short term memories at the top. Now imagine the screws holding the bookshelf together starting to become loose. The bookshelf starts to rock – The books start to fall. The most recent short terms…
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