Stoke-on-Trent City Council said the changes were because of the city's education was not up to standard, and because of declining pupil numbers and the poor condition of old school buildings.
Dr Stephen Lawrence of the Primary Care Diabetes Society said the low comprehensive test rates could be due to the increasing numbers of patients being diagnosed with the condition.
Clearly, there is a wide spread in these GAO numbers as the determination is dependent upon how a pre-existing condition is defined something that varies from insurance company to insurance company and state to state.
This allows the VA to build a knowledge base of each of these injuries that provide doctors and researchers with data-driven information on how to treat a particular condition and also the natural history of conditions that we are now seeing in larger numbers than before.