All posts tagged "health"

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  APEX award winner Jennifer Hollington’s 5-step guide to creating a healthy workplace

  A Canadian senior civil servant who won an award for her efforts in creating a healthy work environment has called on officials around the world to “take intelligent risks” to

  • Posted May 26, 2016
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  America’s troops to get 1.6% wage increase, but critics say the law calls for bigger rise

  A key panel in the U.S. upper house has voted in favour of a 1.6% pay rise for America’s troops. The Senate Armed Services Committee last week approved the proposals

  • Posted May 19, 2016
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  Jonathan Slater moves from DG role in UK Cabinet Office to lead education department

  Jonathan Slater, a director-general within Britain’s Cabinet Office, will take charge of the education department next month, less than six months after being appointed to his current job. Slater was

  • Posted April 21, 2016
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  New Zealand’s health sector to adopt ‘one team approach’ to improve patient care

  New Zealand’s government has pledged to support a “one team” approach across the health sector by bringing together public officials from different backgrounds to discuss government priorities, share international and

  • Posted April 19, 2016
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  New health booking system tackles corruption and cuts waiting times

  A new appointment booking system introduced in the city of Canoas, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul region, has boosted the number of daily consultations from 900 to 2,000. The

  • Posted April 19, 2016
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  Microlink shortlisted for Guardian Sustainable Business Awards

  Microlink has been shortlisted in the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards, in which organisations are judged on their track record of going “above and beyond standard sustainability practice” to achieve “measurable,

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  UK government departments to face further cuts, chancellor reveals in budget

  UK government departments will be asked to find another £3.5 billion (US$5bn) in savings by 2020, following a prolonged period of public spending cuts, chancellor George Osborne has announced. The

  • Posted March 17, 2016
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  New coordinating unit to meet Greek migrant health challenge

  The Greek government has created a central coordinating unit to manage the work of those public and voluntary sector organisations trying to meet the health needs of refugees. Funded by

  • Posted March 16, 2016
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  Governments failing to respond to needs of ageing population, says OECD

  Governments around the world are failing to respond to the needs of an ageing population, according to a recent OECD report which calls on health systems to improve their use

  • Posted January 18, 2016
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  UK education chief Chris Wormald to head up health department

  Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Education (DfE), will succeed Dame Una O’Brien in her role of Department of Health perm sec, it has been announced today. O’Brien

  • Posted January 15, 2016
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