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Businesses must invest in midlife and older workers to unlock economic growth, says think tank Phoenix Insights

Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »

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HRH The Princess Royal is the new BASC Patron

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is delighted to announce Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal as the Association’s new Patron.   In response to her acceptance, BASC Council chairman, Eoghan Cameron, said: “We are privileged that The Princess Royal has accepted the invitation to become our new Patron. The news has been warmly welcomed… Read more »

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The government has ring-fenced health spending, but the DoH will apparently suffer 1,700 job cuts
1,700 DoH staff ‘face the axe’

by Peter Wozniak As many as 1,700 outsourced staff working at the Department of Health (DoH), including medical professionals, are to be made redundant, according to media reports. The staff, employed by the DoH to work in a variety of programmes include health professionals, dentists and psychiatrists, are apparently to be sacked as a result… Read more »

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Lansley must now fight off a legal challenge from Unison
Union starts legal action against Lansley’s NHS reforms

By Ian Dunt The UK’s largest public service union has started legal action against the health secretary in a bid to derail plans to reform the NHS. Unison is challenging Andrew Lansley’s white paper proposals, which it brands “the most fundamental changes to the way the NHS operates since it was created”. The union claims… Read more »