Month: September 2014
Helping workers with ‘common mental disorders’ should be high on health agenda
Chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has highlighted a key issue for the health service to tackle nationally in her latest annual report – calling for better support for those suffering from mental health issues. With between 60-70 per cent of people with common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety currently in work, […]
Unmet needs for legal services: 2014 LSB report
Legal software company Redbrick Solutions, who have created popular and successful legal management and accounting software for law firms, have made an infographic, based on information from the Legal Services Board report created by Professor Pascoe Pleasence and Dr. Nigel J. Balmer, looking at the gap in the legal market and how people’s legal needs, […]
Clinical negligence compensation statistics
In the UK alone the NHS treat 1 million people every 36 hours and carry out a huge 10.595 million operations in 2012/2013. Out of this huge number it is inevitable that a number of these are going to have complications and problems that occur. When complication and errors happen and the NHS is at […]
Could technology make solicitors redundant in the future?
In a 2012 talk futurist Thomas Frey prophesised that by 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear worldwide due to the rise in computer and robot technology. Between 2011 and 2012 there was a 40% increase in the number of robots being used with 1.2 million of them in use globally by 2013. They are […]
Home vs legal paternity testing
When deciding on a paternity test, you will invariably be asked whether you require the result for legal purposes or peace of mind purpose. The actual laboratory procedure for home DNA testing and legal testing does not differ. Both tests involve extraction and amplification of DNA using the same technique and a comparison of DNA […]
