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...The UK’s biggest retailers, factories, offices and even hospitals face an estimated £1.6bn of extra costs from next year after they were excluded from a freeze on business rates in the Autumn Statement on...
...A recent visit to a Becton, Dickinson and Co (BD) factory in Canaan, Connecticut, one of the last two large-scale syringe factories left in America, raised some important questions about the scale of that...
...Meanwhile in London last week, a Bonhams auction raised £325,000 for Hospital Rooms, which commissions art for NHS mental health units in the UK....
...The blood clot drug Apixaban, widely prescribed to Covid-19 patients after discharge from hospital, has been found to be ineffective....
...But her supervisors sent her to Barnes Hospital, an NHS geriatric facility near Manchester. It was a big, dark Victorian building with turrets....
...Hospitals in Leeds and Birmingham are among those that have had to cancel or postpone operations in part because so many staff are self-isolating....
...Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham said it had had to postpone planned surgery for two days....
...“Everyone has been inundated with pings,” he said, referring to the NHS Covid app, and announced a list of workers — beyond hospital and social care staff — for whom self-isolation would no longer be necessary...
...They have also promised hundreds of millions of dollars for child cancer treatment and a new hospital for infectious diseases....
...Ms Jones has led teams of lawyers to provide legal and business advice to state governments, companies and hospitals....
...But he said he believed there was no alternative way to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed and thousands losing their lives....
...“The previous lockdown cost ‘non-essential’ shops £1.6bn a week in lost sales,” said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC....
...“We’re learning more week by week,” said Andrew Dickinson, chief financial officer....
...Letter in response to this article: UK green homes scheme needs swift definition / From Paul Dickinson, Chair, Mitchell & Dickinson, Brighton, UK...
...We invest in Thermo Fisher and Becton Dickinson, which will benefit from a recovery in surgery activity. Other sectors may now pause a beat....
...Recovering from an infection contracted during her fourth bout of surgery for stage-three cancer, Dawn – then a free-spirited 25-year-old from Greenwich Village – gets out of her Boston hospital bed, IVs...
...Ministers say that Mr Johnson, who was treated in intensive care in hospital when he caught coronavirus, is taking the cautious view....
...She joins from Cooley....
...The unravelling of the American global order is explored in Exit from Hegemony (OUP RRP$29.95, February/RRP£22.99, May) by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, who lay out how US global power is changing...
...The architectural and historical significance of sleeping arrangements is covered, incorporating areas as diverse as the hotel room, the monk’s cell, the hospital ward and the associated rituals of each....
...He joins from Womble Bond Dickinson. Law firm Ashurst has hired Antonios Nezeritis from Wildgen as a partner in its Luxembourg office to work in its international investment funds group....
...He is also working on a new Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in London....
...A couple of galleries have gone out of business since (MOT International, Lisa Cooley), and presumably some others didn’t make the cut, but many dealers, particularly from Europe, have decided to cut down...
...Forty years ago, the power structure in hospitals in this country was very simple....
...The medical technology sector has also been buoyed this week by the merger of two hospital supply power houses, with Becton Dickinson set to acquire CR Bard....
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