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Addiction among professionals
Experts are calling for urgent action to tackle the “significant challenge” of rising levels of alcoholism and substance abuse among professionals including doctors, dentists and lawyers. At the first...
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NHS To Share Data With Private Companies
The Prime Minister will announce on Monday plans to allow patients records and other NHS data to be shared with private ‘life science’ companies. Tomorrow he will argue that giving researchers access...
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Public Consultation on Mitochondrial disease
The public will be asked if they think the law should be changed to allow science to move a step forward so a cure could be found for potentially fatal inherited diseases, the Government has announced...
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Wheelchair Demo in London
Today protesters have gathered in the West End to campaign against the government’s welfare reform bill. Oxford Street, Regent Street and Oxford Circus have been brought to a standstill as people in...
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MP’s criticise Health Reforms
A committee of MPs believe that the changes proposed by Andrew Lansley‘s health reforms are obstructing efforts to make the NHS more efficient, and that the reforms fail to address how to care better...
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The Liver Run
Cromwell Hospital This enthralling piece of footage is the second part of the crucial delivery of a donor liver by the Metropolitan Police. The liver was collected from Stanstead Airport by the Essex...
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Every Breath He Takes
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author of “A Brief History of Time“. His key scientific works to date have...
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World Bank–World Development Indicators
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and...
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UN Statement on Typhoon Haiyan
The humanitarian community’s response and commitment in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan had been phenomenal despite overwhelming challenges, John Ging, a senior humanitarian official said today...
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Universal credit legislation may force tenants into debt in recovering rent...
Changes to legislation concerning rent arrear recovery through universal credit will claw 20% from non-housing increment of UC and could mean tenants seeking loans from loan sharks and the problem of...
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Church warns of unfair sanctions against those experiencing mental heath...
The Methodist Church in England fears that people with mental health problems are experiencing sanctions on their benefits at a possible rate of 100 people a day, more than claimants suffering other...
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CPAG – Guidance on Shared Parental Leave
Shared parental leave and statutory shared parental pay is being introduced for couples expecting a baby or adopting a child on or after 5 April 2015. This replaces additional paternity leave and pay,...
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