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Aug 2015
‘We may not be the biggest but we can punch way above our weight’. So says solicitor Steven Bonfield Head of the Corporate and Contracts Division of relative newcomers to Leeds, Chadwick Lawrence LLP. Steven led the legal team which represented the nine shareholders of The Kerfoot Group Limited who last week completed their sale…
04
Aug 2015
As part of a drive towards an ‘honest’ NHS, health secretary Jeremy Hunt recently announced that each time a patient is referred to a hospital for treatment, their GP will be required to inform them on average waiting times. Patients will also be provided with data about the quality of their local hospital. The minister…
04
Aug 2015
A study, reported in the journal Current Biology, has revealed that in tests on mice, irregular sleeping patterns have clearly been shown to lead to cancer, lending weight to concerns about the impact of shift work on health. During the study, mice that had an increased risk of developing breast cancer had their body’s internal…
04
Aug 2015
According to an enquiry by Healthwatch England, high levels of hospital readmissions are being blamed on the poor way patient discharges are handled. The watchdog researched patient surveys, 3,000 patient reports, and information obtained from Freedom of Information requests, and found that any hospitals were failing to contact relatives or investigate whether the patient’s home environment…
04
Aug 2015
According to a report by the King’s Fund and the Health Foundation think tanks, a “transformation fund” of £1.5bn a year needs to be invested in addition to the £8bn which has been promised by the government by the year 2020, which would pave the way for investment in new areas of care. The Health…
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Jul 2015
The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has stated that, in principle, voluntary overtime can be included in calculating holiday pay. Although this case was decided in Northern Ireland, it could be persuasive throughout England and Wales. The Court looked at voluntary overtime as being overtime that an employer is not obliged to offer to its…
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