Currently, a medical consultant, surgeon, radiology office or laboratory can be selected on the basis of quality, convenience and price.
On the basis of quality alone the selection of some 100 watercolors, drawings and prints from the late 1700's to nearly the present is a must see.
Instead patients will be able to choose on the basis of quality who provides that treatment, but without guarantees for providers.
"It's good for consumers for the health care industry to be competing on the basis of quality". said Naomi Meyer, a health care analyst at Consumers Union in San Francisco.
The National Commissioning Board will be accountable to the secretary of state; Monitor, the central regulatory agency that will license any new providers, should be accountable to him too, and should promote competition only on the basis of quality.
Because the EU's distributes research funds on the basis of quality and the UK has a world-class research base, we do better than any other EU member with the exception of Germany.
"Placement decisions should be made on the basis of quality of provision and whether it is delivered in a safe and stable environment, rather than the type of provider delivering the service.
A senior party source dismissed the latest offer of a joint amendment to drop part three of the bill: "Competition already exists in the health service and should exist as long as it's on the basis of quality not price".
Groups including faith, state, and free schools wishing to open an establishment would have to persuade the director, and compete on the basis of quality and cost effectiveness, rather than the ideological values of the secretary of state, Labour says.
Stewart said the BFI was not there to decide which programmes deserved to be saved on the basis of quality – even Derek Batey's Mr & Mrs could be in there.
In an article published in The New York Times on Aug. 8, Mr. Landesman talked about his inclination to support art on the basis of quality, not geography, in implied contrast to his predecessor's policy of directing agency funds to every Congressional district.
