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Feb 2016
The personal budgets, worth at least £3,000 each, are to be offered to pregnant women throughout England so that they can decide on the maternity care they receive. The aim of the overhaul is to increase choices for women and to improve safety in maternity services, and has come about following recommendations from an independent…
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Feb 2016
Joy Williams bought a home in Dorset with her partner Norman Martin after he split from his wife. Joy and Norman bought the 3 bedroom property together as tenants in common rather than as joint tenants. As the property was held as tenants in common, when Norman Martin died in 2012, his half of the…
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Feb 2016
Dealing with any divorce or separation can often be fraught with demanding technical and legal difficulties; nothing is truer than where a case involves a family business. It can be a nervous time for those running a company who quite rightly worry about how a divorce might affect the business. When a couple divorce any…
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Feb 2016
A new treatment has prompted excitement after it was reported that over 90% of terminally ill patients went into remission. The therapy took place at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, and was performed on patients for whom all other treatment had failed and who had two to five months to live. The…
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Feb 2016
According to the charity, there are currently over 352,000 patients being diagnosed with cancer, which is a 12% increase in the rate over the last 20 years. Although experts do say that the rise in diagnoses is in the main linked to the UK’s growing and ageing population, the charity has warned that the survival…
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Feb 2016
Figures released from NHS England show that these ‘never event’ errors are affecting the lives of hundreds of patients, with 1,200 serious NHS blunders in the past year. These incidents included foreign objects and instruments being left inside patients’ bodies following surgery, the wrong body parts being operated on, and mixing up organs. The analysis…
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