Opponents have said the plans to create "centres of excellence" would pit "hospitals against hospital".
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Bracknell MP Phillip Lee has championed specialist centres of excellence, located on transport hubs.
The study identified twelve institutions as potential Centres of Excellence and nine as potential Centres of Reference.
The council said the dementia units would be "centres of excellence that would provide through-life care for patients".
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He told AMs that some conditions had to be treated in centres of excellence, staffed by qualified professionals.
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In addition, the incumbent will take a major role in implementing plans to create centres of excellence in the developing world.
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They also include transferring services to "centres of excellence" and more care being moved out of hospitals and into the community.
It is for these reasons we have selected the UK as the location for a number of our centres of excellence.
Ms Kelly said that so far 34 schools had approached her to be one of the first three "centres of excellence" in Liverpool.
Delegates, representing potential centres of excellence in journalism education, will come from institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda.
Professional club academies and centres of excellence do good work, but there has to be a safety net to catch those players who fall through.
The Healthier Together programme has said it wants to create specialist centres of excellence at Bedford, Kettering General, Luton and Dunstable, Milton Keynes and Northampton hospitals.
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The unit is due to close as part of a Department of Health plan to concentrate heart and lung transplants at four or five centres of excellence.
Jamie Macdonald, of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, said there was a need for Centres of Excellence which would prepare graduates to compete for jobs in the industry.
The current structure of academies and centres of excellence, which was set up by Howard Wilkinson in 1997, has come in for considerable criticism in recent years.
The Programme focuses on fostering major region-specific actions that involve a network of national, regional and international centres of excellence or benchmark centres in the basic sciences.
He added that he did not see why there could not be several centres of excellence for children's services across Wales - much as there was in England.
The trusts have previously said the merger was in the best interests of staff and patients in east Dorset and it would enable the hospitals to create centres of excellence.
These objectives are achieved in co-operation with competent non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and through networking of specialized centres of excellence that organize training activities, workshops and research projects on a collaborative basis.
First, if universities are to create centres of excellence they will need greater freedom: for example, to recruit their staff, to set up experimental links with research bodies or to increase enrolment fees.
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In secondary education, specialist schools have shown significant improvements in results, and most secondary schools and are now exploring the best curriculum areas in which to develop real centres of excellence and boost their provision.
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These objectives are achieved in co-operation with scientific non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and with networks of scientists and specialized centres of excellence, for organizing of training activities, workshops and research projects on a collaborative basis.
Region-wide or even county-wide alternatives will always be a hard sell politically, whatever the merits, or demerits, of concentrating resources in fewer, bigger, centres of excellence, or of sharing certain services across a federation of hospitals.
In addition, the G-PhEd will actively foster excellence in learning and teaching and seek to establish global centres of excellence in the field of higher education, spanning the full scope of undergraduate training and continuing pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education.
It also focuses on developing centres of excellence of specialised postgraduate studies and advanced research by agreement between the parties, with international support and hopes to foster scientific advancement through research in relevant disciplines, and to increase the availability of outstanding specialists within the participating institution.
It also focuses on developing centres of excellence of specialised postgraduate studies and advanced research by agreement between the parties, with international support and hopes to foster scientific advancement through research in relevant disciplines, and to increase the availability of outstanding specialists within the participating institutions.
Immediately after the 2nd UNESCO workshop, a working meeting, Towards Excellence in Journalism Education, will bring together Potential Centres of Excellence and Reference in Journalism Training in Africa to take stock of the progress made in three broad criteria areas of curriculum and institutional capacity, professional and public service, external links and recognition, and development plan, strategy and potential.
Centres of academic excellence regularly hold debates about foreign policy issues and domestic concerns facing the country.
The white paper is expected to endorse the task force's call for centres of design and architectural excellence.
The government has also embraced the importance of urban design, endorsing the call for new centres of design and architectural excellence.
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