Innovative schemes manage to keep care costs under control

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Private medical insurance companies have introduced a number of schemes which are designed to ensure that they retain control of the costs of treatment. In many cases, claims must now be pre-authorised, cases are managed much more closely and preferred providers are used. Doctors and employees covered by corporate medical insurance plans have expressed concern about these measures, but insurance companies believe that they are necessary if private health care is to remain available to large numbers of people.

Finance, Health insurance

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Fuel for the fiery waste debate

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British Nuclear Fuels plans a Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) at Sellafield, Cumbria, England, which would produce radioactive emissions. Foreign customers would send nuclear fuel for reprocessing, Thorp would return a smaller volume of high-level waste equivalent in radioactivity, and the original would remain in the UK. This substitution procedure would make the UK the site for plutonium-contaminated intermediate-level waste, contravening the EC principle of self-sufficient waste management.

United Kingdom, Planning, British Nuclear Fuels PLC, Environmental aspects, Radioactive wastes, Reactor fuel reprocessing, Fuel reprocessing (Nuclear reactors), Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant

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UK: FUEL COSTS HIT BUS SERVICES

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The rising cost of fuel is making an increasingly number of bus services in the UK unviable, and local councils believe that the number of services withdrawn over the last year has increased, according to the Association of Transport Co-ordinators. Bus operators have also suffered from a lack of drivers due to the low pay and stressful nature of the work. Local authorities have increased spending on providing essential bus services, where private operators have withdrawn, by 30% over the last year.

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