The phrase "an existing programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a programme that is already in place or operational, often in contexts such as project management, software development, or educational initiatives.
Example: "We need to evaluate the effectiveness of an existing programme before implementing any new strategies."
Alternatives: "a current programme" or "an active programme".
Under the terms of the bailout agreement approved by the Greek parliament today, Greece has pledged to support an existing programme of privatisation, which includes large chunks of the water utilities of Greece's two largest cities – Athens and Thessaloniki.
For ultimate success we just piggyback on the popularity of an existing programme and put "swim" in the title (The Great British Swim Off. Top Swim. The Swimsons), or be Danish.
The FCO is expected to make £70m worth of savings by "co-locating" UK missions with Commonwealth and EU countries and continuing an existing programme to reduce UK-based-staff by 10% by 2015.
De Villepin's version of flexicurity is to extend an existing programme to encourage small firms with fewer than 20 employees to take on more staff to all companies, and to limit the new rules to the young unemployed.
It supported an existing programme to help troubled families, but found overlap with those involved in the riots was limited.
The patients come from an existing programme monitoring those with high-risk chronic heart failure through out-patient appointments.
The MPs called for a review of all existing programmes under the prosperity fund and said that the CSSF should also be reviewed in its current form.
Policy entrepreneurs were influenced by a number of simultaneously occurring challenges including problems within the existing programme; a perceived mismatch between patient needs and the existing TB treatment model; and the TB-HIV co-epidemic.
In a boost to the existing programme, hospitals will retrieve organs from patients who die in accident and emergency departments – as well as from those who die in intensive care units, as is currently the case.
Supported by recent research, the new programme will be a supplement to the existing programme at each centre, and will comprise four elements designed to enhance and support lifestyle changes introduced in the rehabilitation period: structured goal-planning, motivational interviewing, a self-help booklet and four follow-up telephone calls during the first five months following discharge.
The design is a two-arm Randomised Controlled Trial, in which a total of 480 adults with diabetes participating in an existing DSME programme will be randomly allocated to either usual care in the existing programme or to usual care plus a mobile phone self-management support intervention.
