Sentence examples for delaying appointments from inspiring English sources

"NHS vehicles are transporting patients to hospital for treatment and they don't want to be held up in traffic unnecessarily, delaying appointments for other patients and wasting taxpayer's money," he continued.

Delaying appointments enables GPs to plan and to spread the work better over the week.

In an economic sense, delaying appointments for longer is especially attractive under capitation conditions.

But the length and extent of the current delayed appointments — reaching into the ranks of even relatively minor jobs — appear to be unprecedented, he said.

The tradition, which allows senators to delay appointments of citizens from their home counties, is a throwback to the earliest days of state government, when the Senate was the most powerful body.

In May, the "Gang of 14" (seven senators from each party) cooked up a deal to avoid Republicans using the "nuclear option" (ie, getting rid of the filibuster technique that Democrats can use to delay appointments).

A manual chart review was carried out by MSF staff of all patients who had "delayed appointments".

However, by February 2008, the difference had shrunk to 0.5% and by March there were an equal percentage of delayed appointments.

Recently in Quebec, Canada, several contextual elements (e.g. physician disengagement, delayed appointments and late vaccines) justified a review of how child vaccination services are offered.

However lack of empowerment was also a key theme: women passively accepted delayed appointments and typically did not challenge health professional misdiagnosis of early pregnancy symptoms.

As Table 1 shows, there was a rise in delayed appointments in January 2008, approximately double that seen in January 2007, while the results from February and March showed no difference.