Example sentences of "[art] family health " in BNC.

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1 Now , the Family Health Services Authority has warned that unless it is given more money , prospective fundholders could be discouraged from joining the scheme .
2 A purchasing plan constructed by the authority in close collaboration with the family health services authority is modified through local negotiation with practices .
3 Despite goodwill and a developing sense of partnership among social services , health authorities , the family health services authority ( FHSA ) , and the voluntary sector , the planning process has not been easy .
4 Its five year funding has finished , and the family health services authority and health authority are making encouraging supporting moves .
5 The family health services authority and health authority met with social services at the end of January to explain community care funding , but will this have come in time to save this local initiative ?
6 Clearly , the community care fund will require the active participation of both social service departments and the family health services authority and health authority in these community ventures .
7 The authority , formed by merging the commissioning functions of the family health services authority and the district health authority , will contract with primary care for defined services — general medical , community nursing , chiropody , family planning , etc .
8 Family health services authorities and their professional advisers are charged with the challenging task of ‘ improving the quality and cost effectiveness of prescribing , ’ but any consideration of prescribing costs requires an understanding of how they are affected by factors outside the family health services authority 's control .
9 In the third , medical advisers have developed a management role in the family health services authority , addressed wider health strategy , and planned practice development ; pharmaceutical advisers have led in all aspects of prescribing , involving the medical adviser only when the issue is whether to prescribe rather than what to prescribe .
10 The legal mechanism for determining that judgment comprises a committee of three doctors , appointed by the family health services authority ( with specific criteria for their selection ) .
11 Pharmacists ' dispensing standards are tested by the family health services authority and by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain , whose mandatory code of ethics includes standards of practice for dispensing .
12 One option would be for the family health services authority to employ community pharmacists on a sessional basis to visit local practices .
13 The family health services authority 's role of advising general practitioners , both on improving their prescribing and on how to ensure value for money , will remain and they will be required to show the effectiveness of their interventions .
14 Comparison of practice prescribing with the family health services authority average
15 Management development , team building , and organisational development plans could be developed by practices in the light of local service priorities , and approved and funded by the family health services authorities .
16 Finally , our practice has expended valuable energy and resources in trying to negotiate , without success , a more sympathetic interpretation of this ruling from the family health services authority .
17 Overall there was no significant difference ( by paired t test ) in the variation between individual practices and the family health services authority average based on costs and items calculated by either the Newcastle prescribing index or the prescribing unit ( figs 1 and 2 ) .
18 In one extreme case the Newcastle prescribing index increased the practice relation to the family health services authority average by 50% for cost and yet decreased the relation for items by 1% ( fig 3 ) .
19 Secondly , is the family health services authority average a good marker of quality ?
20 Secondly , since alternative methods of endometrial samples are as accurate as dilatation and curettage , and acceptable to most patients , it seems reasonable to suggest that with appropriate guidelines , training , and support of the family health services authority , general practitioners could perform some of the procedures otherwise carried out in gynaecology outpatient services or the operating theatre .
21 Editor , — New patients registering with our general practice often complain about the time it takes us to get their NHS notes from the family health services authority .
22 All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority .
23 I practise in the London Borough of Newham and also give medical advice to the family health services authority through the department of general practice and primary care of the Joint Medical Colleges of St Bartholomew 's and the London Hospitals .
24 The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London .
25 Butland seems to have failed to appreciate that in the government reforms the general practitioner is the purchaser of services and the family health services authority 's role is to facilitate this and not to act as Big Brother .
26 Am I alone in feeling threatened at the thought that audit is supervised by direct employees of the family health services authority ?
27 While his aims for promoting and facilitating the process of standard setting are admirable , there still remains the conflict between general practitioners wishing to provide a high standard of clinical care and the family health services authorities ' agenda for managing the structure and process of the provision of care with inadequate funding .
28 What hope is there for asthma care in the future if the family health services authorities and health boards continue to rely on staff not trained in medicine or nursing to make ‘ quality of care ’ decisions ?
29 Perhaps some of the total expenditure on deprivation payments could be reserved by the family health services authorities for appeals , providing that the money was ‘ ring fenced . ’
30 Realising that things were getting behind , Roycroft pulled together a policy group consisting of himself , Gary Smith , and Clare Dodgson ( chief executives of the health authority and the family health services authority ) .
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