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Gender equality - tackling self-imposed discrimination
28/02/18
Do women overthink decisions? Is this holding them back in the workplace? Does it stop them applying for promotions?
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Care Home Mismanagement
28/02/18
A case from Australia but similar themes to ones our CQC and care homes team find time and time again, senior managers should have known what was going on but didn’t and care suffered.
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MDDUS Members receive discount on legal services for GPs
28/02/18
At such a challenging time with increased pressure in primary care, GPs need lawyers who understand the stresses and strains that they are under, provide practical solutions, and robustly protect their legal and commercial interests.
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Triathlon and your career - you get out what you put in
27/02/18
The connection between health, fitness and employee well being/productivity is well established.
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Housing Associations delivering the surpluses needed to support new development
27/02/18
The news of "record profits for housing associations" is good news for the sector as it aims to increase new development.
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Refusing to accept tenants on benefits could breach equality laws
26/02/18
This case study supports what most commentators have thought for some time - that a blanket ban on tenancy applications from people on benefits could breach equality laws.
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2 days to complete service user and carer surveys for Mental Health Act Review
26/02/18
As part of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA), service users and carers of those who have been detained under the MHA are invited to complete surveys to share their views.
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Review into handling of patient safety concerns
26/02/18
The Government has launched a review into how the NHS responds to concerns about medical treatments with the aim of finding a fairer and quicker way of resolving similar concerns in the future.
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Commonhold - what went wrong?
23/02/18
Commonhold was intended as a new model of ownership, to replace leasehold for residential owners. Yet is has spectacularly failed to take off.
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Precribing errors: causing death and costing the NHS £1.6bn per year
23/02/18
In a speech to the Patient Safety Conference in London today, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will set a five-year target to halve harm from prescribing errors.
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GMC announce medical manslaughter review
23/02/18
The GMC review is an interesting development in the continuing debate surrounding the criminal and regulatory proceedings brought against Dr Bawa-Garba - a case that has generated much discussion within our professional discipline team here at Capsticks.
Liability for historical abuse and the implications for organisations
21/02/18
Post Saville, Rotherham, and Winterbourne Care Home and the ongoing Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, there has been a significant rise in historic abuse claims.