Working together: new opportunities: the Queen's Nursing Institute director Rosemary Cook discusses the historical and present-day links that the institute has with midwifery and highlights the opportunities for midwives to get involved with its wide-ranging work.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI), which is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year was at one time best known for its training of district nurses. However, since the origins of the institute, its work has also encompassed community midwifery. Dame Rosalind Paget, a key figure...

Support, support, support!
Dear editor, I was appalled to read of the situation described in the article Job guarantee for newly-qualified midwives? in the May issue of RCM Midwives Journal 10(5): 208. It discusses the excellent suggestion by the College that newly-qualified midwives should be given a guaranteed year's contract...

GMA visits BIR today to review 'tax take' record.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ President Arroyo visits the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) today to personally review the agency's tax collection record in July and determine if the new leadership she installed last month would be retained for good performance. The President will preside over the...

Palace bares new appointees in government.
Byline: GENALYN D. KABILING and MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR. President Arroyo yesterday announced the appointments of Ray Anthony Chua as Chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and Pelagio S. Apostol as Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas. The President said Chua, a...

Powering up; National Grid prepares to join forces with KeySpan.
Byline: Bob Kievra WESTBORO - As an engineer by training, Steven J. Holliday knows a thing or two about straight lines. Mr. Holliday, who became chief executive of National Grid plc in January, wants the British energy company to have a distinct corporate strategy, one...

Late retirement may extend your life.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: Want to live longer? Retire late. A unique research carried out in the US has revealed that opting for an early retirement does not help people to live longer. In fact, early retirement at 55 may actually make them more likely to...

Many learning to redefine retirement.
Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard A Corvallis friend of mine whom I've known since sixth grade stunned me with some news recently. He's taking Hewlett-Packard's early retirement package - at age 51. Fifty-one? That's my age. At 51, you might pull a...

A downside of downsizing.
Byline: Brian Bremner Japanese executives spent the better part of the past decade frantically trying to deal with the consequences of prolonged recession. That meant taking a machete to corporate payrolls, either by forcing older workers into early retirement or by not hiring. ...

State Bank officials rush to exit before door slams shut.
Byline: Sangita Mehta MUMBAI: A number of senior officials from State Bank of India (SBI) are actively considering early retirement. This follows a decision by the bank to withdraw an early retirement scheme from November '06, that entilted early retirees to receive half the salary on their...

Work Less, Live More.
Byline: Ajita Jabal Shah Many professionals today are resorting to early retirement and taking up their choice of occupation or hobby. With the five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe declaring his retirement from competitive swimming on the grounds of lack of motivation and claiming his realisation...