Abstract The purpose of this article is to evaluate the new “climate duties” that are created for pension trustees under Pension Schemes Act 2021. An evaluation provided Act’s section on change risk.” suggests while more could have been done enforce climate risk amongst trustees, regulatory regime should nevertheless be seen as a positive development. Indeed, statutory requirements increased ma...

T HROUGH an amendment to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, approved by President Truman on July 31,1946, the Railroad Retirement Board was charged with the responsibility of establishing and administering a sickness insurance program for railroad employees.’ Thus, sickness benefits now form an integral part of the railroad retirement and unemployment insurance systems. The programs for p...

Background and purpose: According to developments related to the relative autonomy of universities and acquired extensive powers by the board of trustees of universities of medical sciences and healthcare services in a twenty-year perspective of country and in the context of the fourth and fifth socio-economic cultural development of country, necessity of developing financial and transactional ...

Over the last decade I have studied 115 healthcare organizations in II countries, examining them from the boardroom to the patient bedside. In that time, I have observed one critical element missing from just about every facility: a set of standards that could reliably produce zero-defect care for patients. This lack of standards is largely rooted in the Sloan management approach, a top-down ma...

One of the challenges confronting the U.S. health care system is delivering high-value, effective therapies and clinical services that provide the best health outcomes. The 2016 Medicare Board of Trustees report projects the Medicare trust fund will become insolvent by 2028.1 The U.S. ranks last amongst industrialized countries in cost, quality and health equity.2 The Affordable Care Act (ACA),...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 349–357 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article provides responses to five copyright scenarios—institutional pricing, the face-to-face classroom, video copying and replacement, film clips and streaming video—that are frequently faced by librarians who manage and acquire media. Copyright is a particularly comp...

Following the release of its strategic plan, in which patient safety and quality were highlighted as key directions, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton recognized the importance of engaging its board of trustees to achieve these goals. Following a collaborative retreat with senior management, medical staff leadership and professional practice leaders, the board enhanced its governance oversight o...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 704–724. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Slovakia is a young and progressive country that has undergone great changes since its establishment as a sovereign state. T...

The Advisory Council on Social Security Financing submitted its report to the Board of Trustees of the oldage and survivors insurance and disability insurance trust funds on January 1, 1959. The Council had been appointed, in the fall of 1957, by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in accordance with the 1956 amendments to the Social Security Act.1 The Council held its first meeting...