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13
Oct 2020

Section: Medical Negligence

Overstretched health visitors each caring for up to 2,400 families with newborns

The sector’s most senior figure has warned that overstretched health visitors have been forced to care for up to 2,400 families with newborns at a time, which is ten times the recommended number. Prompting fears that generations of babies could face a troubled future, Cheryll Adams, chief executive of the Institute of Health Visiting, said…

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15
Sep 2020

Section: Medical Negligence

Welsh victims of contaminated blood scandal “still waiting for equal payments”

More than a year after Wales health minister Vaughan Gethring said he wanted the matter to be resolved, contaminated blood victims in Wales are still waiting for a rise in support payments. Charity The Haemophilia Society has written to the health minister urging him to end the disparity where victims in Wales can receive £14,000…

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