The departure of Sir Gus O'Donnell, the country's top civil servant, was announced this week: part of a Big Bang restructuring, which shows how anxious the prime minister is to expedite policy delivery.
Page A6 GREECE TO EXPEDITE POLICY Greek lawmakers voted to speed the enactment of the country's new austerity measures, clearing the way for foreign lenders to make available the next installment of aid, which is necessary to meet the government's expenses through the summer.
The company says its insurance carrier is expediting payments under the $100,000 life insurance policy on each employee, without requiring a formal death certificate.
The Bush administration announced a significant shift in its AIDS policy on Sunday, expediting the approval process for generic and combination antiretroviral drugs so they can be purchased at lower prices and provided more efficiently and safely to millions of infected people in Africa and the Caribbean.
Several policies aimed at expediting the diagnosis of cancer after presentation to general practitioners chiefly emphasise either 'knowledge mobilisation' interventions (e.g., reminding primary care physicians of the possibility of cancer diagnosis during consultations), or enabling of greater access to endoscopy or imaging investigations (Department of Health, 2012; Hamilton et al, 2013).
The initial excuse was that functionaries were trying to expedite a Freedom of Information Act request because an election was looming — although expediting the request actually violated department policy.
Encouraged by the falling cost of batteries, electric vehicle (EV) policy today focuses on expediting electrification, paying comparatively little attention to the cost of the particular type of EVs and charging infrastructure deployed.
Immediately after America's declaration of independence, its government made it official policy to steal inventions from Europe, expediting the country's rise as an industrial power in the 19th century, notes Doron Ben-Atar of Fordham University in New York.
If those radical Bad Muslims do crazy things regardless of policy, then there is no benefit to expediting permanent peace.
Hence, we recommend that policy, and clinicians, should continue the current emphasis on expediting symptomatic diagnosis, at least for most cancers.
