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Nov 2020
The Commons Public Accounts Committee have said that the NHS is in danger of repeating mistakes made in the past as it tries to modernise its IT systems, warning that substantial sums of public money could be wasted. Their report adds that without proper planning, it will be unclear whether the health service’s digital transformation…
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Nov 2020
Research has suggested that some disabled people in the UK have struggled to obtain essentials such as breathing equipment and medical supplies during the Covid pandemic. According to a YouGov survey, around 60% of those who rely on social care said they were finding it difficult to obtain at least one of their necessities. Charity…
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Nov 2020
Until the government introduces no-fault divorce, currently not expected until autumn 2021 due to delays caused by the COVID pandemic, you will be required to justify to the Courts why you should be entitled to a divorce. There is only one ground for a divorce: “the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage”. You will need to…
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Nov 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent body who oversees all things data protection and compliance. The ICO has fined Marriott International Inc. (the international hotel chain) under GDPR a substantial sum of £18.4 million for failing to keep millions of customers’ data secure following a cyber-attack on Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide…
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Nov 2020
The BMA has said that ‘urgent’ funding for premises is needed in order to improve access to practices, including £1bn which was originally pledged in 2016, but ‘did not reach practices’ in ‘large amounts’. In a submission to the Government’s spending review consultation, the union called for a ‘major multi-year funding injection’ into the NHS.…
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Nov 2020
An NHS hospital where a woman bled to death during childbirth in February 2019 has been handed an ‘urgent’ deadline by the Care Quality Commission to keep patients at its maternity unit safe. It has been revealed that the CQC found unsafe staffing levels at the unit at Basildon Hospital throughout the month of August,…
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