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Get up to speed with new Act
International law firm Pinsent Masons, which has an office in Birmingham, has been working to ensure that its clients comply with the new requirements of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The Act, which came into force
last October, strengthens consumers' rights and remedies regarding business-to-consumer transactions. In order to ensure compliance, businesses therefore need to consider both their business practices and their consumer facing materials. Rami Labib, a solicitor in the
commercial team at Pinsent Masons, said: "Whilst the Act does not represent a complete overhaul of consumer law, it is important that clients are aware of the key changes and, where appropriate, take steps address to ensure compliance." For example, businesses may
want to consider staff training to highlight that anything said or written by or on behalf of a trader, about the trader or its service can now form a binding contractual term.
team of heart and lung experts from Birmingham Children’s Hospital has
returned from an inaugural trip to South Africa to share their expertise on using life-saving equipment. The five-day visit to the Red
Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town was organised as part of a planned longer-term collaboration to introduce and develop an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) service in South Africa’s only specialist paediatric centre. Tim Jones, paediatric cardiac
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A life-saving trip to Africa A
One tour: the Children’s Hospital team during the South Africa visit
surgeon and Birmingham Children’s Hospital’s ECMO service lead, was joined by Margaret Farley, the hospital’s ECMO co-ordinator, Gail Faulkner, ECMO co-ordinator from Leicester’s Glenfield Hospital and Bob Bartlett, who is credited with developing the life-saving heart and lung technology, for the trip. Used in intensive care medicine, the specialist ECMO machine provides an artificial heart and lung
‘The specialist ECMO machine provides an artificial heart and lung function for young patients’
function for young patients, allowing these failing organs to rest and heal for up to four weeks. It is hoped the development of
the ECMO service in Cape Town - the first for children in Africa - will lead to a future cardiac transplant service. Tim, who has been a heart
surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital for ten years, said: “It was fantastic to make such a worthwhile trip to South Africa to share knowledge and help them develop their own life-saving ECMO service.” Dr Andre Brooks, a Paediatric
Cardiac Surgeon in Cape Town, who previously spent a year training at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, said: “Due to the increasing complexity of the
congenital cardiac surgical programme at the Red Cross Hospital, we feel that ECMO is now essential. “The team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital has
established a good model of a high quality programme, in a low volume ECMO centre, which means we’re are ideally placed to collaborate.”
Key to the highway (from left): Chamber president Greg Lowson, Jim O’Sullivan, Chamber chief executive Paul Faulkner and Tony Marshall of Arup
The road to the future
The country’s new highways chief was the keynote speaker at Birmingham Chamber’s final patrons’ lunch of 2015. The event was held at the Solihull
home of infrastructure firm Arup, at Blythe Valley Park, and featured Jim O’Sullivan, chief executive of Highways England, which was formed in April 2015 to take over from the Highways Agency. Highways England is owned by
the government, who believe its creation will allow it to secure longer term funding, and also have greater freedom and flexibility than its predecessor.
22 CHAMBERLINK FEBRUARY 2016 In its first five years, Highways
England is planning to deliver £11 billion of investment in England’s major roads. In the West Midlands, major projects include the improvements at Junction 10 of the M6, the M42/M40 interchange and the M5 from Droitwich to Worcester. Highways England will be
accountable to the Office for Rail Regulation, who will monitor the performance of England’s Strategic Road Network, and Transport Focus, an independent watchdog who campaign for the best deal for road users.
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