India: Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) will shortly link ‘National Pension Scheme (NPS)’, with employment guarantee programme like ‘MNREGA (Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act)’ to ensure that each of its beneficiary becomes entitled to pension facilites under NPS, says PFRDA, Executive Director, Mr. P.K. Tiwari.
Delivering his keynote address at ASSOCHAM organized “6th [...]

Australia: AMA Federal Councillor and AMA NT President, Dr Paul Bauert, said today that the Australian Government could learn a lot from the experiences of non-government organisations (NGOs) internationally about how best to make real improvements in Indigenous health.
Dr Bauert is this week attending the United Nations Advance Global Health Conference in Melbourne.
Dr Bauert said [...]

The AMA will next month host a summit of key medical training stakeholders to discuss and develop solutions to the crisis around the shortage of prevocational and vocational training positions for medical school graduates.
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that Australia faces the loss of hundreds of locally produced, highly trained medical graduates to [...]

Birmingham’s business community is “overwhelmingly” in favour of proposals prepared for the creation of a Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
A 9,000-word document will shortly go to the Government advocating an LEP comprising business leaders and the local authorities in Birmingham and Solihull.
Birmingham and Solihull Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCI) has been a partner in preparing [...]

Birmingham: West Midlands business leaders welcome the news that nearly seven out of ten entries in this year’s GCSE results (over 69%) have been awarded a C grade or above.
The increase in the numbers of students taking up science is particularly good for the high number of manufacturing and engineering companies in the city, says [...]

Australia: If you live in a rural or regional town, or an out of town rural area, and have a normal electricity supply of 240 volts, you can help the Alternative Technology Association by taking part in a survey.
We are looking for 250 volunteers and the survey will take about 25 minutes to complete.
To complete [...]

London, UK: Commenting on the news that the RMT is to announce a series of 24-hour tube strikes in September, Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said:
“If these strikes go ahead it will cause massive disruption to London’s firms and damage our city’s reputation as a reliable place [...]

July 2010:
UK BPI -1.5%
London BPI -1.5%
June 2010:
UK BPI -1.8%
London BPI -1.8%

Thursday 12 August [...]

Australia: The AMA shares the concerns of Australia’s biggest medical schools that the national shortage of medical internships has severe implications for the future medical workforce and its ability to meet the health care needs of a growing and ageing population, with more people suffering chronic and complex conditions.
Dr Pesce said the internship shortage has [...]

Australia: The AMA welcomes commitment from Labor that, if elected, it would invest heavily in telemedicine to support and enhance health services as a part of a modern health system.
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said the investment would assist doctors to better use communications technology to provide services to patients who would otherwise have limited [...]