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    <description><![CDATA[Charities call for WCA to be suspended]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
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    <title><![CDATA['Work intensification' strikes wellbeing of nation's workforce]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Public sector workers now equally at risk of job stress]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
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    <title><![CDATA[Calls for more ‘flexible’ retirement age as research links retirement to decline in health]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[British culture of overworking ‘damaging family life’, survey suggests]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[The HI Profile: Punter Southall's John Dean]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Health Insurance Editor David Sawers asks the questions]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jelf announces insurance broker acquisition as it reports ‘steady’ growth for HI 2013]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Consultancy firm buys Hull-based The Insurance Partnership]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Aviva revamps MSK service for corporate clients]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Presenteeism warning as survey shows nine in 10 have worked while ill]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[93% of UK employees have attended work while sick, research shows]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA['Everyday' hazards underline commuters' need for income protection]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[1.7 million people have taken time off work after injuring themselves on daily commute]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rise in breast cancer among women under 50]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Charity warns that modern lifestyles could be to blame]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cancer sufferers experiencing discrimination at work, charity warns]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Businesses not doing enough to support employees during and after illness]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Q1 group risk sales soar at L&G but G-Day hits individual figures for quarter]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Group protection sales up 67% in first quarter]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Key auto-enrolment milestone as major EBC warns of corporate liability risks]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Staging date for many employers reached this week]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Austerity 'damaging public health', researchers claim]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA['Great Recession' has led to rise in suicide and depression]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Foresters gives members access to 24/7 telephone and online GP service]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Friendly society also offering online consultation service]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Group risk market achieves ‘extraordinary’ growth in 2012]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Swiss Re Group Watch reveals 10% rise in in-force premiums]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Towers Watson: EAPs useful but 'more proactive' measures needed to tackle stress]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Top-tier EBC warns stress needs to be tackled head on]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cost of public sector absenteeism 'much higher' in Northern Ireland than mainland UK]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Problem cost NI economy £149m in 2012]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:44:24 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Depression could be 'contagious', researchers claim]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[US study says 'cognitive vulnerability' can spread from individual to individual]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[New NHS leaders to sign staff health and wellbeing pledge]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Leaders will meet for first time and pledge support for staff wellbeing]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cancer costs patients equivalent of second mortgage in additional costs]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Individuals hit by 'whopping' extra costs as result of illness]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:23:18 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bupa mobile occ health vans now on the road]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Units designed to replicate static facilities]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:21:08 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Heart disease capital of UK revealed]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Study highlights inequalities across the nation]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
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    <title><![CDATA[Advisers optimistic about income prospects - but fears over profitability remain]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Aviva survey offers snapshot of intermediary sentiment]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:13:10 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[JLT in global tie-up with vielife]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[JLT will offer vielife's online health programmes through its benefit management system]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[L&G reports fall in declined GIP claims for 2012]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Group risk claims stats revealed]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
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    <title><![CDATA[Comment: A personal thought on mental health]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If underwriting for mental health is difficult, claims management is awfully difficult]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:52:20 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Unfair dismissal claims 'spike' ahead of law change]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Less favourable terms being introduced for former employees]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:19:05 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Employers address absence management head on as a quarter make absence stats public]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[More open culture emerging on absence management, says GRiD]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:16:04 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dame Carol: Health initiatives pointless unless management issues addressed]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Mild mental health and musculosketal conditions are 'symptoms', not diseases, says Dame Carol]]></description>
    <author>Nigel Lowry</author>
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:57:49 +0100</pubDate>
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