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NHS Innovations East Midlands - where your ideas come to life

WITH DR CARL EDWARDS AND BETH DE-GRAFT JOHNSON

NHS Innovations East Midlands is the technology transfer arm of the NHS

In 2003, the Department of Health published a framework and guidance document that required all trusts to manage their innovations and their associated Intellectual Property (IP), it also requires IP to be identified and managed.

The NHS National Innovation Centre (NIC), which is part of The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, co-ordinates the activities of the NHS hubs. The Centre also acts as an interface between the healthcare industry and the NHS. The NIC offers various secure and confidential online services to public sector organisations designed to help them assess, manage and develop their precommercial innovations that could be beneficial to the NHS.

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Public Sector Service Absence Health and Wellness Review

WITH Lord McKenzie, Work and Pensions Minister in the Lords with Norwich Union Healthcare

Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work at the DWP is helping to steer the governments' strategy across Whitehall. These new initiative will build on the successful Pathways to Work programme and the groundbreaking condition management support, Return to Work Credit - to tackle the issues that cost businesses nearly £26billion on stress, depression and anxiety related absenteeism alone.

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PENSIONS REVIEW - DEVOLVED GOVERNMENT

BOB HOLLOWAY, DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITH DEUTSCHE BANK ALSO WITH DAVID CLARK, PRESIDENT OF ACI, THE FINANCIAL MARKETS ASSOCIATION

In 2004 the 94 Local Government Funds of the Local Goverment Pension Scheme held assetts to the value of £95bn with an assett mix of 70% equities, 20% bonds and the remainder held in a mixture of cash, current assetts, property etc. Recently there has been a diversification into new areas such as Exchange Traded Funds, Emerging Markets, Private Equity, Foreign Exchange, The Futures Market, Derivatives

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