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• Real cost of heart attacks and strokes: Double the direct medical expense

  07-04-2019 20:42
  The full financial cost of a heart attack or stroke is twice as much as the medical costs when lost work time for patients and caregivers is included. The study concludes that victims of heart attack and stroke who return to work are 25% less productive in their first year back.
  
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• Councils spend millions on agency social workers amid recruiting crisis

  07-04-2019 17:00
  Exclusive: Local authorities spent at least £335m in 2017/18 on agency staff, according to FoI requestsLocal authorities are being forced to spend millions of pounds on social work agencies as they struggle to recruit permanent staff, with some authorities employing nearly half of their children’s social workers through private companies, a Guardian investigation has found.Data obtained through freedom of information requests found that many English councils are routinely spending te
  
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