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Pharmacist paid dearly for moments of folly

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Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent England and Wales High Court case in which a pharmacist appealed against a decision of the General Pharmaceutical Council to remove her name from the Register after she fraudulently obtained money from a department store.

A word of advice to HSE employees in disputes

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Dear Editor, I would be grateful if you could allow me to alert readers who are employees of the HSE to the importance of using registered post in their communications with their employer in the event of any dispute.

Placements certainty for ‘almost all’

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Almost all doctors entering a training scheme will have certainty over their placements for at least the next two years, the Minister for Health, Dr Leo Varadkar, has said.

Smokers cost employers €4,500 extra each year

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Employers have to pay around €4,500 or more a year to employ a member of staff who smokes compared to a non-smoking employee, claims research published online in the journal Tobacco Control.