Daily Archives: June 1, 2015

Policies and actions to shift eating patterns: What works? | Food Climate Research Network (FCRN)

June 1, 2015 By in Business Administration, Healthcare Tags: , 3 Comments
English: Fighting Obesity

English: Fighting Obesity (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

With obesity reaching pandemic proportions, it’s time to take seriously cutting-edge research, sponsored by leading think-tanks.

via Policies and actions to shift eating patterns: What works? | Food Climate Research Network (FCRN).

Most of the findings are not knew but there’s a need to drive home the message in both the developed and increasingly the developing worlds.

A powerful lobby is required to challenge the food and drinks industry who are making billions on the back of increasing obesity.

Thoughts?

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NHS will clamp down on ‘rip off’ agency fees – Telegraph

June 1, 2015 By in Business Administration, People, Public Sector, Public Services Reform Tags: , , 3 Comments
Two women walking outside an employment agency.

Two women walking outside an employment agency. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a good article from the Telegraph. Check it out!

via NHS will clamp down on ‘rip off’ agency fees – Telegraph.

Unfortunately, I fear that the Telegraph misses the point.

Firstly, employment agencies are charging exhorbitant fees in a market-place where competition is increasingly restricted. Big one-stop shops, like Capita, are taking the cream. It’s perhaps time for the EU competition authorities to investigate?

With modern technology, there’s no justification for agency fees above four percent. Most of the agency employees are not skilled, just deploying key-word searching. They should be engineered out of the industry.

Secondly, recruitment practices in the NHS and public sector need serious reform. They should be using their own agency pool, excluding third-parties, like Capita.

Thoughts?

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