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An NHS trusts approach to charging overseas patients for healthcare may have scared people away from seeking treatment, with domestic violence survivors hit with bills for thousands of pounds and one patient ending up on the streets, a report has found.Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust LGT apologised for any instances where patients were not treated with compassion, or in a manner consistent with the values of [the] trust , and accepted all but one of the reports 39 recommendations.The report was produced by a panel including trust officials and local campaigners, having been commissioned in the wake of controversy over
stanley cups uk a pilot scheme in which the credit reference agency Experian played a role in checking the eligibility of the trusts patients for free non-emergency care.Campaigners for migrant rights welcomed the report, but warned similar situations to the one at LGT existed at NHS trusts across the country as hospitals implemented government rules to charge patients who are not ordinarily resident in Bri
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stanley quencher ebsite mumsnet and the author Gina Ford ended yesterday when the website apologised for offensive comments about her posted on its bulletin board and contributed to her costs.In an out of court settlement, Ms Ford, famed for the routine-driven childcare advice outlined in the Contented Little Baby book, dropped her action against the site, which had barred discussion of her books and methods during the dispute.That ban has no
stanley cup uk w been lifted, but the site s users have been warned they must not make personal attacks. Among the postings prompting Ms Ford to take legal action was one sarcastically accusing her of strapping babies to rockets and firing them into South Lebanon .The nine-month dispute, which could have seen mumsnet being forced to pay Ms Ford a six-figure sum had it gone to the high court, exposed the inadequacy of libel laws in the age of the internet, according to the website s founder, Justine Roberts.Defamation law treats websites and their bulletin boards in the same way as a newspaper, holding a publisher liable for their content. T
stanley quencher his is a print defamation law for a digital age, and it has not caught up with what is going on the net, she said. Mumsnet wants the law clarified to define, for example, how swiftly a website must remove abusive or offensive postings.Last night Ms Roberts called the outcome a pyrrhic victory for Ms Ford. I don t think it has done her reputation much good,