While I understand the potential desirability of these services (and think Grindr could use some serious competition), I worry that it just mimicks the same damaging social structures of "real life" interaction, and that we are losing queerness as a unifying identity across difference.
The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, seems to be pushing this model, and the shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, has also spoken of the desirability of "one service co-ordinating all of one person's needs", with the district general hospital "evolving over time into an integrated care provider from home to hospital".
A third argument against the prohibition of horizontal price-fixing agreements involves the social desirability of cross-subsidization of services for the poor.
In those units without a microbiology ward round the desirability of such a service was scored on average at 8.5 out of 10 (range 10 3, mode 9).
In South Africa the feasibility and desirability of integrated HIV/TB service delivery have been tested locally with promising results [ 8, 9].
If, as it would appear from this statement, such central issues as the desirability of handing over human services to for-profit businesses are to be resolved by an evidence-free restatement of the commission's longstanding beliefs, why bother with the elaborate rigmarole of an inquiry?
Reported midwifery opinion reinforced the desirability of midwifery -led maternity services designed to meet the needs of women as mothers.
In economics, the desirability of a good or service (e.g., healthcare) can be understood in terms of its utility, a measure of (expected) satisfaction gained from the consumption of a product or service.
Also, recall bias and social desirability problems in interviews concerning the utilization of services are excluded.
