Example sentences of "[to-vb] hospital " in BNC.

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1 This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services .
2 Powys Health Care Trust announced two weeks ago its intention to concentrate hospital services at the Chest Hospital .
3 The acts of 1866 and 1869 extended the geographical locations covered by the regulations , while the Admiralty and the War Office were now mandated to provide hospital facilities for inspection and treatment .
4 ‘ I also have to visit hospital every three weeks for an infusion of white blood cells . ’
5 Clearly more weight attaches to the principal administrative and economic factors : the development of general hospital treatment and primary care which are intended to replace mental hospitals , and the search for more cost-effective alternatives to state hospital provision .
6 Author 's widow to open hospital unit
7 Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry .
8 The two deaths recorded during this study both occurred in patients who were moribund when first assessed and did not survive long enough to reach hospital .
9 Consequently specially designed research projects have attempted to enumerate hospital readmission rates .
10 The document proposed that , to reduce waiting lists , health service patients should have the opportunity of treatment in private hospitals ; and that health authorities should explore the potential of placing contracts with private nursing homes for the care of elderly patients , in order to free hospital beds for other patients .
11 In the primary care sector of the NHS , general practitioners ( GPs ) with large practices are to be offered the chance to control their own budgets and to buy hospital services on behalf of their patients .
12 Giving the GP power to buy hospital services for his or her patient might help redress the relative loss of status and power of GPs and primary health care in general compared to that of the hospital consultant , and be a strong corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals .
13 But the Department of Health said it was doing its best to help hospital staff cope with change .
14 Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with .
15 The article quotes Mr. Jeff Chard , a former COHSE shop steward , as saying : ’ At the moment , I have to use hospital staff like engineers to service the machines and do repairs .
16 What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk .
17 The London middleweight Rod Douglas , who has been in hospital since being beaten by the British champion Herol Graham two weeks ago , is expected to leave hospital ‘ in a week or so ’ , according to his manager Mickey Duff , who said last night : ‘ He is going to make a complete recovery .
18 For example , one member of the Association of Carers had to leave hospital within two days of a mastectomy with her draining tubes still in place because the community nursing service found her mother and disabled husband too much to cope with .
19 ‘ So it will be possible for his father to leave hospital as soon as suitable accommodation is arranged ? ’
20 He was yesterday preparing to leave hospital in Basingstoke , Hants , with a sack load of gifts and cards .
21 The plan had been to leave hospital for a few days , beginning the next day .
22 He should be able to leave hospital in one month .
23 An extreme example of this occurred when a hospital social worker was asked to see a family who refused to allow a newly bereaved husband to leave hospital to attend his wife 's funeral , as they felt angrily that he had contributed to her unexpected death with his demands .
24 EVIL robbers beat up a businessman so badly with an iron bar that he was afraid to leave hospital last night .
25 He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added .
26 Last night , Laura was allowed to leave hospital .
27 They may consequently be unable to leave hospital or institutional care , may be made dependent on others , or imprisoned within a physically unsuitable home .
28 One SSD , for example , had great difficulty in persuading a district council housing department to offer accommodation to a single mother who had become disabled but who wished to leave hospital and look after her daughter .
29 Althugh endoscopic sclerotherapy is undoubtedly the first line of treatment today , 30% of patients fail to leave hospital alive , and even in specialist units this figure is not less than 20% .
30 Two year follow up of those who survived to leave hospital shows that while there is an increased mortality among the elderly this is entirely due to non-hepatic causes and that once survival is corrected for age there is no difference between the two cohorts , being of the order of 55% at one year and 50% at two years .
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