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Should overseas staff type our medical notes?
Hospitals are still continuing to look to India to type up medical notes, despite fears that patients' safety could be at risk through mistyping or misinterpretation. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is the latest to outsource thousands of patient letters...
Conservatives, women and domestic violence
Pocket Opera Fund-raising prosecuting solicitors Debs and Shelley Barbara and Claire helping victims of domestic violence Domestic violence is a subject most people never give a second thought to. It is something that happens to someone else and anyway, if they don't...
My concerns about a smacking ban
Support has doubled for the Government to ban smacking, with 170 cross party MPs in favour. There is also growing international pressure for a smacking ban. It would be interesting to know what effect this has had on parenting in countries where the ban is enforced,...
Conservative women have fire in their veins
Theresa May in those famous shoes Wannabe MP Dawn Parry, chairman of Banwell Conservatives, North Somerset Wannabe MP Zoe Wheddon, teaches in Hampshire Tory women mean business, they are getting their act together. And there is no shortage of them wanting to stand as...
Women and 21st Century Politics
Will Theresa pass Carol's critical opinion? I shall he heading off to Westminster soon to listen to Theresa May speak on "Women & 21st Century Politics". It is a joint parliamentary reception given by Conservative Future and the Conservative Women's Organisation...
I want real bobbies on my street
Policing on the cheap How can people be fooled into thinking that police community support officers deter crime? They have no real powers, yet the Home Office believes this is the answer to their prayers. Norfolk police have been given an additional £1 million to...
Brief Encounter 2006
While the rest of the nation was gripped watching England play in the World Cup last night, I curled up on the sofa with the manuscript of a book written by a journalist friend. Award winning business writer Jenny Chapman already has 11 books under her belt and wants...
Tory MEPs urged not to interfere over EPP dilemma
Robert Sturdy urges fellow MEPs not to interfere The words "rebellion" and "Tory" were used in the same newspaper headline today. It was a report about the proposed withdrawal from the EPP, and two conflicting views of MEPs from the Eastern Region. Christopher Beeley...
The burning question about the Miliband blog
Chris Huhne: why are Lib Dems so silent about Miliband's £40,000k blog? When I first heard about David Miliband's £40,000 per year blog, my first thought was to trawl the Lib Dem blog sites to see if they had been expressing any indignant views about it, after all,...