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Aug 08 2013

Zero-Hours Working Contracts Not Always Fair

Pressure has increased recently on the Government to tackle the increasingly controversial issue of ‘zero-hours contracts’ in the wake of a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development report which estimates the number of workers affected as being as high as a million, nearly five times as many as claimed by official statistics. Read Full story

Jul 18 2013

Care Quality Commission to Overhaul Inspection System

The first Chief Inspector of hospitals for the NHS Sir Mike Richards who works with the Care Quality Commission has announced a more in-depth system for inspecting NHS premises in light of the scandals at Mid Staffordshire Hospital and more recently the Furness General Hospital. Read Full story

Jul 05 2013

Happy Birthday NHS

The NHS is celebrating its 65th birthday today. Originally launched on 5 July 1948 at the Park Hospital in Manchester it was the first time anywhere in the world that completely free healthcare was made available purely on the basis of citizenship and need, rather than the payment of fees or insurance premiums. Today it is almost impossible to imagine life before the… Read Full story

Jun 18 2013

Carers Should be Screened for Depression say Doctors

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) estimates that as much as one in every twenty patients with a GP practice is providing unpaid care and it is thought that about 40% of carers are thought to be at risk of depression or stress because of their caring role. The Carer’s Trust defines a carer as someone of any age who provides unpaid support to family or… Read Full story

May 07 2013

Breakthrough for Sufferers of Chronic Back Pain

Recent research conducted by the University of Southern Denmark has turned much of the established thinking about chronic lower back pain on its head. Over a period of ten years the Danish team have studied tissue collected from sufferers and found that nearly half of the samples were infected, most often by propionibacterium acnes more generally known as the cause of… Read Full story

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