Furthermore, its proposals to change ratios and introduce childminder agencies are likely to reduce quality for children.
He said plans to reduce the starting salaries of police officers could reduce the quality of new recruits.
Out-of-service monitors and unchanged filters may reduce the quality and availability of critical data needed to assess radioactive threats to public health and the environment.
Attempts to make nurseries more affordable by letting staff look after more children at a time may reduce the quality of care, campaigners have said.
"Londoners don't have to reduce their quality of life to tackle climate change, but we do need to change the way we live, " said London Mayor Ken Livingstone, announcing the London Climate Change Action Plan.
Taking photos and videos in low-light situations has always involved some kind of tradeoff: you can either crank up the ISO and reduce image quality significantly, use something like Sony's NightShot and add that alien green tint to everything, or trust your image stabilizer to go from wacky-blurry to just pretty-blurry.
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Zitzewitz points out, is that it would increase cost and might reduce the average quality of judges.
Hospitals need to disrupt themselves, or be disrupted by others, to reduce cost and improve quality.
The first order of business for Sierk and his crew is to reduce costs and improve quality.
It emphasizes the need to promote sustainable and innovative approaches to protect water quality to reduce poverty and secure sustainable livelihoods.
To improve quality and reduce errors, each pair of jeans is made from start to finish by a single group of workers.
As part of his vision to reduce costs, boost quality and reconfigure plants, Mr Ford described a plan that gets "back to basics".
Making the announcement today, the Transportation secretary said the new minimums would improve air quality and reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.
So here are some practical solutions that need to be considered and adapted to provide not only accessibility to care, but reduce costs while maintaining quality.
The Affordable Care Act helps address this by changing the incentives for providers so that they start adopting best practices that will work to reduce cost while improving quality.
As in many other aspects of health care, we could significantly reduce costs and improve quality by moving towards the medical practices adopted in the more efficient parts of the country.
It could be improved quality to reduce their defects in manufacturing, it could be improved levels of service to reduce delays, and it could include increasing customer service to get a better outcome.
Better yet, they allow the definition of each to be made by the individual, through choice of care providers and services, and the type of catastrophic insurance that gets paired up to it, all the while harnessing the power of the free market to increase quality and reduce costs.
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"Imagine if tomorrow you could announce a new energy plan that would in one stroke cut your constituent's gasoline bill in half, reduce our oil imports, improve our air quality, enhance national security, strengthen the dollar, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create tens of thousands of new jobs in the U.S, " McClendon said.
This loan will fund a comprehensive energy retrofit project that, when completed, will enhance quality of life for the residents, reduce energy costs, cut water consumption, improve indoor air quality, and create quality local jobs.
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The Stirling-based group said it expected the "fiberising" equipment to improve product quality and further reduce its cost base.
The aim is to collect more data about players' health and come up with new treatments and strategies to reduce injury and improve their quality of life.
Rolland was among the first to help popularize practices now standard in the industry, including sterilization of equipment and the pruning of vines to reduce yields (thus improving quality).
They will also reduce costs and enhance service quality.
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"The whole health economy, including clinical commissioning groups, local hospitals and the West Midlands Ambulance Service, is working together to reduce these pressures and high quality patient care remains a priority, " he said.
For its part, the Obama administration is part of the Global Alliance Initiative, which is a public-private partnership that, among other things, seeks to improve indoor air quality and to reduce carbon emissions.
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Instead of trying to figure out how to pay for the cost of care, we try to work on the other half of the equation: How to innovate to reduce costs and improve the quality and accessibility of care.
The aim is to improve performance and quality of service, reduce costs, and simplify management.
Studies show quality programs can help reduce complications and the use of expensive medications.
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The general idea behind the overhaul is to establish better-quality patents and to reduce the number of patent lawsuits.
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