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Sep 2014
ACAS has recently updated its guidance focussing on staff uniforms, health and safety requirements and religious dress as well as tattoos and piercings. The starting point for any dress code should be the staff handbook. Dress codes usually implement either an official staff uniform or promote a more generic “appropriate standard of dress”. The…
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Sep 2014
A health body has recommended that a new drug developed to treat skin cancer should be made available on the NHS. The drug, Dabrafenib (Tafinlar) which can help some patients with advanced stage melanoma, has been given the green light by NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). In final draft guidance, NICE…
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Sep 2014
Private client law specialist Amanda Simmonds of Family Law has been invited to sit on a panel of experts to judge the Large Legal Team of the Year category in this year’s STEP Private Client Awards 2014/15. Qualifying as a solicitor in 1988, Amanda joined Chadwick Lawrence earlier this year as an associate. She specialises in…
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Sep 2014
According to Cancer Research UK, NHS cancer services in England are struggling following years of cost savings and recent reforms in the NHS. The charity is calling for greater funding to meet the demands of an ageing population. In 2013-14, GPs referred nearly 1.5 million patients in England with suspected cancer, which was an increase…
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Sep 2014
GP practices that are currently providing inadequate care are to be provided with deadlines to improve or face potential closure, under recently proposed special measures. The special measures will be introduced from October this year by the Care Quality Commission, coinciding with 8,000 practices being rated on whether they are outstanding, good, requiring improvement or…
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Sep 2014
Researchers at the Monash Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, have identified three types of stem cells in umbilical cord blood, which could be the key to preventing cerebral palsy. The researchers have found that giving back the blood to newborns within 12 hours of birth could prevent the likelihood of birth asphyxia, which…
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