"Commissioners cannot be a member of a political party, and cannot, by law, have been an office holder or employee of a political party, or held elective office, for a period of 10 years prior to their appointment, " it added.
The government has retained some crucial objectives, notably the pledge to achieve by 2008 a maximum all-in waiting time for elective treatment, from a family doctor's referral to the operating table, of 18 weeks.
All elective surgery, a total of 10 operations, at the hospital were cancelled due to the threat of flooding.
In an elective setting, a user with this type of implant could potentially choose to stay focused on command, while constantly strengthening circuits of the brain associated with concentration.
Central Middlesex would be a centre for planned or elective operations under the plans, and Hammersmith a specialist hospital, while Ealing and Chelsea and Westminster would be local hospitals.
She was the only girl to pick caving as a sports elective in grade school.
Bring along a list and point out, say, how a finance elective or business development course could be applied to your position and help your boss.
That, and the fact that he never held elective office disqualifies him as a serious candidate for president.
In the NHS there have been trials in elective surgery with patients offered a choice of up to four hospitals for treatment, often assisted by a Patient Care Adviser.
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This provided a full slate of elective courses focused on technology and entrepreneurship, with immersion in the Valley.
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More than half of these were emergency Caesareans, but despite this experts have been calling for measures to reduce numbers of elective Caesareans, warning it is a major operation.
When a hospital negotiates with, say, Aetna over the costs of its surgical procedures, that hospital negotiator can much more easily walk away from a deal if she is confident that her hospital has a long waitlist for elective surgical procedures, meaning that the other insurance companies in town will bring them plenty of business to remain at capacity.
Of those, 9.6% were elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks without a medical reason.
He has never held elective office, whereas Mr Earley is a former attorney-general and state senator.
This epidemic of uncertain care is an unintended outgrowth of a decades-long boom in elective surgery.
The new payments system was used in 2004-05 for both elective and emergency admissions to foundation hospitals, a select group that have won more freedom to run their affairs.
Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.
But after as his career in elective office ended, the former mayor remained a force on the New York political stage, endorsing candidates in local, state and national races, appearing often on television to discuss current events and even writing reviews of movies.
Mr. Zuma isn't a stranger to hardball politics ahead of elective conferences.
Patients can rarely find this information before getting elective surgery, or when deciding to commit to a given institution for a long-term course of treatment.
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But since April, every patient admitted for elective (non-emergency) operations has had a price-tag attached to his treatment, so that hospitals are rewarded according to how busy they are.
The result has been a steady rise in "early term" elective inductions using labor-stimulating drugs.
We can't fully explain this, although we know that the age of the mother and health issues like obesity play a role, as do high rates of elective cesarean sections.
Other more important changes that will likely have a larger impact, but which are currently elective at this time, are the the adoption of accountable care organizations (ACOs) along with the concept of bundled payments for managing and treating specific diseases.
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However, the hospital trust said a backlog of non-emergency, planned (elective) operations was expected to reach 400 by the end of the month.
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Citigroup Inc. offers the Citi Health Card, while Chase has ChaseHealthAdvance, a line of credit aimed at helping customers finance elective health procedures such as corrective eye surgery.
Nearly 20 billion was spent last year worldwide on a variety of medical procedures from fertility treatments to elective cardiac surgery, dental work, as well as cosmetic procedures.
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The main obstacle to his election, analysts believe, is that despite being a Socialist Party insider Hollande has never formally held any national elective office.
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