Example sentences of "of health authorities " in BNC.

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1 The 1991 edition of the NHS handbook has been published by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts ( NAHAT ) .
2 The guide includes information on the role of health authorities and Trusts ; the new roles of members of health authorities , Family Health Services Authorities and Trusts ; complaints , quality assurance and planning in the NHS ; assessing the healthcare needs of local populations ; Care in the Community ; and services for elderly people .
3 The guide includes information on the role of health authorities and Trusts ; the new roles of members of health authorities , Family Health Services Authorities and Trusts ; complaints , quality assurance and planning in the NHS ; assessing the healthcare needs of local populations ; Care in the Community ; and services for elderly people .
4 Age Concern believes that these issues should be explicitly considered when discussions take place about responsibilities of health authorities , family practitioner committees and self-governing hospitals .
5 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients .
6 Age Concern believes that this issue needs urgent consideration in the context of the NHS Review , and that the statutory responsibilities of health authorities in this respect should be clarified .
7 MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AUTHORITIES
8 The annual costs estimate includes £155 million for a ‘ strengthening of management at all levels , ’ £10.5 million to pay members of health authorities , £15.6 million for administering general practitioner budgets , and £3.3 million for computers to monitor drugs spending .
9 However , the report — commissioned by the National Association of Health Authorities and the Society of Family Practitioner Committees — warns that the main danger is a spiralling of demand for long-term residential care .
10 These projects , covering issues such as information requirements and the purchasing role of health authorities , are designed to work through the implications of the White Paper at a local level .
11 I remember in June going to Brighton for a meeting of the National Association of Health Authorities .
12 THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts .
13 The White Paper makes trenchant criticisms of Health Authorities , particularly the ‘ long standing lack of clarity about ( their ) role ’ ( para 8.4 ) .
14 Personal observation of a number of Health Authorities suggested that few attained this level of almost sublime detachment .
15 Studies of Health Authorities in the 1980s unearthed many examples of the kind of member the government has in mind but whose impact was minimal ( Haywood & Ranade , 1985 ) .
16 The National Association of Health Authorities ( NAHA , 1988 ) described both concepts of the ‘ internal market ’ , — the Enthoven model and also another totally different model , ie ‘ Automatic and immediate cross-boundary flow reimbursement ’ , which it stated ‘ carries the internal market concept to its full fruition , involving transferring the initiative from the planners and treasurers , to the market customers ( ie patients ) and their advisers ( ie GPs ) with money following the patient ’ .
17 The discussion above has related mainly to the services under the management of health authorities .
18 Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas .
19 The survey of district managers — who are responsible for buying health care for the people in their area — by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts showed that : FEWER than half support the system of opt-out hospitals .
20 Heads of health authorities saw their salaries almost doubled in 1991 .
21 Extending prescription charges to the better-off old might bring in £350m a year , according to the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts .
22 Enhancement of the NHS domain was certainly at the core of the initiative , perhaps because many informed observers thought that members of health authorities would , in the future , become both more representative of the population served and better able to make local management innovations in service .
23 In the case of health authorities , the contracts that have been negotiated with providers have made more explicit the way in which resources should be used .
24 This specialty focus could be perceived as ‘ plea bargaining ’ and was taken as such by at least two chairpeople of health authorities .
25 The new unit , based at the NHS management executive offices in Leeds , will focus mainly on the role of health authorities , GPs and nurses in community care .
26 Consequently such services have only been under the administration of health authorities for a short while .
27 Part I should help managers to counteract the effects of the demographic changes in the population and increase the competitiveness of health authorities in the labour market .
28 In summary they proposed that : the C & AG should have the right to audit the accounts of all bodies that were substantially supported from public monies , including nationalized industries and private sector companies ; that , for England and Wales , the ( then ) district audit service should be transferred from the Department of the Environment to the C & AG , with similar arrangements for Scotland ; and that the audit of health authorities should likewise be transferred to the C & AG .
29 Pursuant to the provisions of the NHS Act 1977 and other enabling powers , the respective Secretary of State regulates on all aspects of financial control of health authorities .
30 There is an urgent need for research to clarify whether socio-economic differentials in ill-health persist at the level of Health Authorities , once the SMRs have been controlled .
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