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Start-ups and SMEs need to consider intellectual property more carefully
Small firms and start-ups are urged to take care when developing services and products to avoid breaching other companies’ intellectual property (IP).
Posted in:Corporate / commercial updates
How will the pension reforms affect you?
New pension freedoms for over 55s that were introduced at the start of April 2015 represent the biggest shake-up to pensions in a generation. Although the reforms will change the way we save and spend before and during retirement, people are advised not to be too hasty.
Posted in:Employment Law
GP federations
One of the main recurring themes in the medical press in recent years, has been the need for GP practices to work more closely together in the future.
Posted in:Healthcare
Dentists in brief…
Dental reforms to be trialled Proposed reforms to primary care dentistry will be tested by using selected dental practices as prototypes, the Department of Health has announced.
Posted in:Healthcare
Doctors in brief…
Funding announced to recruit and retain GPs A new plan announced by NHS England will receive £10 million of funding to recruit and retain GPs.
Posted in:Healthcare
Care Quality Commission (CQC) update
In January 2015, the media and national news were running stories of a small number of practices which had fallen foul of the CQC Inspectors and had been placed in Special Measures. http://dailym.ai/1EWYmlg
Posted in:Healthcare
Dentists failing to explain prices and treatment options
The majority of dentists in England are failing to provide adequate explanations of prices and treatment options to patients, as indicated in research released by Which.
Posted in:Healthcare
Ready… steady… go… for auto enrolment?
The new laws on workplace pensions mean that every employer in the UK will be affected by auto enrolment.
Posted in:Healthcare
Employers to reveal gender pay gap
Companies which employ more than 250 people are reminded that they will soon have to reveal differences between average pay for male and female workers under a change to a law passing through Parliament.
Posted in:Employment Law
Disability discrimination: reasonable adjustments
A large number of disability cases concern employees on long-term sickness absence and the steps that employers should take to help them to return to work. An EAT case illustrates that, generally, for an employer’s duty to make adjustments to be triggered, there must be an indication that the employee might be fit to return […]
Posted in:Employment Law