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How Clear is Your Website – The Burger Analogy

October 23, 2016
Looking through the eyes of an inspector, how clear is your website information? I remember watching the crystal maze as a child.  The obscure challenges set out by the presenter…
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Disability Discrimination: Justifying Treatment

October 21, 2016
Long-term sickness absence can be difficult for any employer to handle, even more so where the employee is also disabled. Disability is one of the nine ‘protected characteristics’ covered by…
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Treating the Person – Not Just the Condition

October 15, 2016
The Survey A recent Scottish survey of NHS cancer patients’ experiences was positive overall. But it has lessons for everyone in the caring professions. We need to provide for people…
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Scams Against the Elderly and Vulnerable are Rising

October 15, 2016
Scams are becoming more and more common and the National Trading Standards Scams Team, bless their hearts, are as worried as the rest of us. Like me, they’re particularly worried…
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Unregulated Dental Equipment – Low Prices Too Good to be True?

October 15, 2016
  The bitterness of poor quality equipment remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten. Dental practices are reminded of their responsibility to ensure that they only use…
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New Inspection Arrangements for Wales

October 15, 2016
  The old saying about buses, “you wait ages and then two turn up together” certainly appears true of care legislation in Wales at present. New Wales specific care legislation…
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Shared Parental Leave – Discrimination Against Fathers

October 15, 2016
Shared Parental Leave (SPL) was introduced in April 2015, as a more family friendly and flexible way in which working parents could manage time off work following the birth of…
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Making a Wish – Simple Ways to a Fulfilling Life

October 15, 2016
One of the benefits of being invited to speak at conferences is that you get to hear other speakers who inspire you or remind of important things. This occurred recently…
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