The phrase "active department" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a department that is currently engaged in ongoing activities or operations within an organization.
Example: "The active department is responsible for managing all current projects and ensuring timely completion."
Alternatives: "operational department" or "functioning department".
This can only mean the de facto wind-up of the Department for Business as a pro-active department, further shrinkage of the criminal justice system (mitigated by prison sell-offs), local government reduced to a husk and the knell of further education.
To be research-active, departments have to have the latest research.
"In many research-active departments, the numbers of contract researchers matches, or even exceeds, the number of faculty posts," says EPSRC's Mark Hylton.
Most survey recipients were captured during a rotation at a program with an active IEM department including a fellowship and a long history in the field, so the decision to rotate in this setting may reflect interest in IEM not found in the overall EM applicant pool.
'Overall, in the 11 years that he held the Chair of Clinical Neurology, he developed a remarkably active clinical department with a research base stretching from the bedside to imaging and immunology, and numbering over 60 scientists' (Sir David Weatherall).
For example, an EHR downtime poses different risks for a small ambulatory practice than it does for a 500-bed level one trauma hospital with an active emergency department and several intensive care units.
Although companies have active HR departments and even have industrial psychologists evaluate them or facilitate team-building activities, many employees don't feel safe enough to share coworker or boss problems with their employers unless a situation has escalated.
Mr. Carway cited the program's success in removing guns and drugs from communities, and said it was a successful application of his intention to take a more pro-active approach in department activities, including increased home visits and time in the community.
