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Retirement 'a distant dream'
Sixty per cent of small business owners are delaying retirement because of the worsening economic conditions 
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Equitable Life compensation: Q&A
A million people who had their savings left in tatters after Equitable Life collapsed in 2000 could now be in line for compensation 
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Up to 40% of final salary pensions to close
Up to 40% of UK final salary schemes are expected to have closed to future contributions within the next five to 10 years - up from the current 6% 
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Pension change gathering pace
The retreat from defined-benefit pension schemes is gathering pace, with more than 40% of them expected to have closed to new inputs within the next five years 
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Who will help me to get a better pension?
I need to find a good independent financial adviser to help me invest my pension money. Can you help? 
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Started by Barry 2 Nov 2007
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NAKED FROM THE ELBOWS DOWN: DIARY OF A STROKE VICTIM
NAKED FROM THE ELBOWS DOWN: DIARY OF A STROKE VICTIM
“NAKED FROM THE ELBOWS DOWN” – Sign on entering Torbay Hospital, Torbay has piloted a ‘naked from the elbow down’ strategy, which means that staff are banned from wearing watches or jewellery that could carry infections on the wards.Torbay can now “smell success” in reducing hospital-acquired MRSA. Last year the hospital had 23 cases of MRSA bacteraemia but, as of November this year, they have had just 11. Hand hygiene compliance is also impr… Continue
Posted by Barry on 1st May 2008 at 3:18pm —
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Health News
Johnson urges obesity 'movement'
Alan Johnson calls for a "national movement" to tackle obesity and warns against "vilifying the extremely fat".
Dementia patients' memory probed
A study of dementia sufferers indicates they be able to remember more than first thought.
'Suicide' GP guilty of misconduct
A Glasgow GP who prescribed sleeping pills to a patient who wanted to take her own life is found guilty of misconduct.
Mark Easton
Shock new crime figures - stabbings are down
Surgery patients' data is stolen
Information on more than 3,500 patients at a surgery in Greater Manchester has been stolen, health bosses say.
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