UK: NEW ORGAN DONOR RULES FROM GOVERNMENT
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Following an incident that saw an organ donor's family specify that the organs of their dead relative could only go to a white person, the government is to impose new conditions on organ donations. A report was subsequently commissioned in July 1999 by former secretary of state for health Frank Dobson, into three different operations using organs from the patient. This report is to be published on 22 February 2000, and it concludes that such conditions should not have been accepted. It also calls for transplant co-ordinators and other staff to be trained in the Race Relations Act. Mr Dobson, who said that he was appalled by the case, immediately ordered a ban on racism in organ donation. Other conditions also to be outlawed include requests that non-smoker organs should not be given to smokers, and drink-driver victim organs should not go to alcoholics.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: BREAST CANCER SCREENING AGE LIMIT TO RISE
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UK government ministers are planning to announce an increase in the upper age limit for breast cancer screening from 64 to 69, following trials in Leeds, Nottingham and Bristol indicating that such an increase is both feasible and acceptable to older women. It is thought that as many as 1,000 extra lives per year may be saved by including older women, and by taking two X-rays of the breast rather than one on every visit rather than only on the first. Following the move, all women aged between 50 and 69 will be routinely called for screening every three years. It will necessitate around 40-50 extra consultant radiologists and 150-200 radiographers, increasing the annual cost of the service, around GB[pound] 37mn, by one third. Radiographers may be trained to take on some of the tasks currently performed by doctors.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: STUDY CALLS FOR NEW LAWS FOR DEATH AT WORK
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A new study which looks into death in the workplace concludes that as many as 55 cases a year of corporate manslaughter should be brought against companies and their directors. The author, Dr Gary Slapper, who is Director of the law programme at the Open University, studied 40 cases of death at work taken at random and found that in one in five there was evidence of corporate manslaughter. Dr Slapper believes that the legal system does not take corporate killing seriously, that there is little deterrent, and that should such deaths occur in ordinary life the perpetrator would go to jail whereas when the death is in the workplace, prosecution is rare.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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