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Nov 2022
On Monday 14 November 2022, Business Secretary Grant Shapps announced that businesses will be given an additional 2 years to apply for the new UKCA product safety marking. Grant Shapps made the following comments: “The government is determined to remove barriers to businesses so they can get on with their top priorities, like providing quality…
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Nov 2022
Where more than one person owns a property, it is possible to own the same as Joint Tenants or Tenants in Common. The difference between the two types of ownership are that, if you hold as Joint Tenants and one owner passes away, the property would automatically pass to the surviving Joint owners, regardless of…
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Nov 2022
A breast cancer drug which has been shown to boost the survival chances for women with high-risk, early-stage breast cancer who have mutations on the BRCA1 or 2 genes, is set to be rejected for use on the NHS. Studies have shown that olaparib cuts the risk of these patients dying by a third,…
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Nov 2022
Latest NHS England figures show that a record number of people had a long wait to be seen in A&E departments in October, with over 550,000 waiting for longer than four hours in major A&E units, up from 492,000 in September, the highest proportion on record. The Society of Acute Medicine warned the situation…
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Nov 2022
Patients with untreatable cancers have had their immune system redesigned to attack their own tumours. The experimental research, which involved 16 patients, has been called a “leap forward” and a “powerful” demonstration of the potential of such technology. Each patient involved in the study had a treatment which had been developed specifically for…
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Nov 2022
The GMB Union has said paramedics are waiting “for several hours” to drop patients off at an A&E department. A video filmed Deanne Ferguson of the union showed a line of ambulances outside Scarborough Hospital earlier this week. Yorkshire Ambulance Service said there were handover delays at hospitals while the hospital rust said it…
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