Author Archives: Alun Rees

Investing – The Key Topics For Your Success & an offer from RW Ltd

The four weekly ezine from financial planners Ray Prince and Graham Urwin is a good read and full of sense. Here’s a section from the latest one and an offer to obtain The Investment Answer. Investing – The Key Topics For Your Success When we look back over the seven and a half years thatContinue reading “Investing – The Key Topics For Your Success & an offer from RW Ltd”

The Weekend Read – Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probably not the ideal book for the beach or poolside but well worth the time it will take to read and digest – I’m half way through reading it for the second time so that I can assimilate and enjoy the message. In his first book Fooled by Randomness Taleb explored the randomness of successContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb”

Dr Andrew Lawson: ‘If I’d relied solely on the NHS to treat me, I might well be dead’

I wrote in February this year “As Nigel Lawson said in his memoirs, the NHS is the closest thing that the English have to a religion and to criticise any part of it from altar boy to archbishop is tantamount to sacrilege. The Olympic opening hype didn’t help. I grew up  having fear but littleContinue reading “Dr Andrew Lawson: ‘If I’d relied solely on the NHS to treat me, I might well be dead’”

The Greatest Breakthrough Since Lunchtime #16 – Alzheimers / Perio disease link.

Reports in two of the UK national dailies of research from UCLAN linking Alzheimers disease with poor oral hygiene. The Independent – Poor dental health and gum disease may be linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests. Brains of dementia patients were found to contain Porphyromonas gingivalis, the bug responsible for unhealthy gums. Scientists believeContinue reading “The Greatest Breakthrough Since Lunchtime #16 – Alzheimers / Perio disease link.”

NHS England has published its new “Mid-year and year-end reconciliation and financial recovery policy”.

NHS England has published its new “Mid-year and year-end reconciliation and financial recovery policy”. My thanks to Alexander Hall from Meade King LLP for sharing this. At paragraph 28 under the sub-heading “Transitional arrangements 2013/14 only” it has confirmed: “As this is the first year of the policy it has been agreed that there willContinue reading “NHS England has published its new “Mid-year and year-end reconciliation and financial recovery policy”.”

Claimants will have to pay a fee if they want to take their employer to employment tribunal.

The Government has confirmed that from today, claimants will have to pay a fee if they want to take their employer to employment tribunal. Currently, it costs nothing for a claimant to make a claim. However, in a bid to weed out the weak and vexatious attempts by the claimant to have their day inContinue reading “Claimants will have to pay a fee if they want to take their employer to employment tribunal.”

Sign Child Oral Health Petition

Sign child oral health petition dental professionals urged Dental professionals are being urged to add their names to a petition that calls for robust action to address child oral health inequalities. The petition has been launched as part of the BDA’s recently-announced Make a meal of it campaign. The campaign aims to tackle the damageContinue reading “Sign Child Oral Health Petition”