Patients going to A&E because they were having a mental crisis had to wait three weeks for a bed at one of England’s busiest hospitals, it has been revealed

Patients going to A&E because they were having a mental crisis had to wait three weeks for a bed at one of England’s busiest hospitals, it has been revealed. They had to stay in a short stay area with no natural light at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital because of a shortage of mental health beds. A…

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'FCA's new Consumer Duty will force firms to treat customers better'

The FCA’s Sheldon Mills says too many firms aren’t considering their customers’ needs when designing and selling products This week, City regulator the Financial Conduct Authority announced its new Consumer Duty — a set of rules which it says will force companies to provide a better and fairer service to customers. Sheldon Mills, executive director…

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Italy's Nexi sticks to 2022 guidance after core profit jumps 20.5%

MILAN, July 29 (Reuters) — Italian payments group Nexi on Friday confirmed its 2022 goals, after reporting a 20.5% rise in second-quarter core profit with revenue growing robustly across all its markets. The acquisition of domestic peer SIA and Nordic rival Nets, which it completed last year, have turned Nexi into Europe’s biggest payment service…

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The Future of Philanthropy Could Be on the Blockchain

id=»article-body» class=»row » section=»article-body» data-component=»trackCWV»> Consider impact DAOs the blockchain version of a nonprofit. Getty Images Ukrainian aid, the fight for reproductive rights and efforts to reverse the effects of climate change have a surprising common theme: They’re all getting aid from groups using blockchain to rally support.  Consider it the blockchain version of a…

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Google and U.S. chip maker SkyWater expand open source chip design…

By Jane Lanhee Lee July 28 (Reuters) — U.S.chip manufacturer SkyWater Technology Inc and Knows kit Alphabet Inc’s Google Public Sector announced on Thursday they are expanding an open source platform to design chips that can be made in SkyWater´s Minnesota facility. SkyWater said the U.S. Department of Defense is funding $15 million for the…

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