Productivity after sight-loss City Talk Hugh Bassett Worldwide, over 1.1 billion people are living with unaddressed sight loss. This can vary in severity,but in many cases, it is intuitive that this will lead to a lack of productivity. Sight loss can cause orexacerbate poverty through reduced employment prospects and work productivity, as well asadversely affect educational opportunities and outcomes. This [...]
Tech startup helps businesses to combat £9bn waste in productivity due to poor mental health Mental Health 12 billion workdays lost annually to mental ill-health but young entrepreneur thinks he has the solution. Mental health issues in the workplace are costing the global economy over £9bn ($1tn) due to lost productivity say international agencies. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are calling for “concrete actions” as depression [...]
UK government to launch overseas hiring spree to fill Brexit care sector labour shortages Hiring spree The UK government is seeking to hire thousands of overseas workers to fill 160,000 vacancies in the UK’s care sector. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) is exploring ways to make it easier for workers form countries including India and the Philippines to work in the UK’s social care sector, The Times reported. [...]
Victims of infected blood scandal to be given £400m by October August 17, 2022 The government will pay out £400m by October to thousands of people impacted by the so-called ‘infected blood scandal’ Up to 4,000 people will receive payments of £100,000 after contracting HIV and hepatitis C as a result of being given products imported from the US. Many were given infected blood as children in the form [...]
Electric dreams: Volt founder on the rise and rise of the electric bike August 5, 2022 Between the oven-like temperatures on the tube, the promise of rail strikes stretching into infinity and the ever-present threat of another airborne pandemic, things are looking up for the e-bike industry. Last year saw a record 22m e-bike sales according to the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry, a 10 per cent increase on the [...]
The Gym Group’s chair of directors will retire with its founder taking over the role July 25, 2022 Chair of directors for low cost exercise giant the Gym Group has announced she is retiring, having been at the helm since its IPO in 2015. Penny Hughes will step down as the chair of The Gym Group board of directors today, with founder and director John Treharne taking over the role. During her time [...]
WHO declares monkeypox global emergency as now spread across more than 70 countries July 23, 2022 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared monkeypox a global emergency, as the disease has now spread across more than 70 countries. The move could lead to increased investment in treating the illness, as it now requires a coordinated global response. According to Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at Southampton University, the [...]
UK’s private healthcare market booms as NHS case backlog hits record levels July 22, 2022 A surge in people choosing to pay for surgeries out of their own pockets has seen overall activity in the UK’s private healthcare sector bounce back to pre-pandemic levels. More than 250,000 British people opted to pay for private healthcare themselves in 2021, instead of using the NHS, in a shift that has offset a [...]
UK covid death toll passes grim milestone of 200,000 July 13, 2022 A grim milestone of 200,000 coronavirus-linked deaths has been passed as the UK grapples with a spike of a new variant. Figures released by the Office for National Spastics show that as of last week there was 200,247 fatalities registered in the UK where Covid was referenced on the death certificate. The watershed moment for [...]
Totally posts record growth, exceeding market expectations July 12, 2022 Frontline healthcare provider Totally has posted a record growth this past year, exceeding market expectations. Following the pandemic’s impact, in the year ended 31 March Totally’s profits before tax increased by 1,200 per cent to £1.3m, while EBITDA went up 24 per cent to £6.2m. Revenues also shot up 12 per cent to £127.4m, while [...]