Dr Barbara Hakin, the national director of commissioning operations for NHS England, said: "The demands on the NHS frontline remain high but we continue to deliver good services in the face of this pressure, admitting or treating and discharging more than nine out of 10 patients within four hours".
Would it be too much to hope that officials could incorporate a bit more kindness into their work – while still discharging their duties to enforce regulations and the law?
Now, because we have to meet targets, wards are discharging patients more efficiently, medicines are being dispensed more quickly, transport is being arranged faster - it's all nitty-gritty stuff but it all helps when people work together to solve a problem.
The disturbing footage appears to show an officer first discharging a Taser and then three officers chasing Zambrano-Montes across the road before firing.
According to Simon, the journalist said "this had been a lesson to him and that he would always have this experience in mind in discharging his responsibilities in future".
When the major internal incident was declared, Colchester hospital closed its doors to all but life-threatening emergencies and began discharging all patients who were clinically fit to leave.
The media groups said the section "would see journalists jailed for undertaking and discharging their legitimate role in our modern democratic society – reporting in the public interest".
He concludes that "the dignity of work comes from the way we show, through it, a determination to endure what is difficult for the sake of discharging our responsibilities and contributing to society".
Axion's plan, therefore, is to have the best of both worlds by building a hybrid battery that is based on lead-acid/carbon (PbC) chemistry.The carbon, which is protected within a sandwich of other materials, is more effective than metallic lead at exchanging protons with the acid during charging and discharging.
Nor is the private sector eager to add workers, given the difficulty in discharging them should the economy turn down.Perhaps most difficult of all is dealing with residual currency controls, which prevent South Africans taking their money abroad.
Discharging and recharging the battery then simply caused the lithium ions to move back and forth between the two intercalation compounds, releasing energy in one direction and absorbing it in the other.
