And if swine flu does become a pandemic, school nurses will be in the frontline, providing information and support to the UK's children.
When Willison retired from the army as a lieutenant general with the KCB in 1975, he was immediately appointed director-general of defence intelligence, a post he held for three years and which made maximum use of the experience he had gained in the shadowy frontline of information-gathering.
"In the wake of this incident, it will be a real challenge to strike the right balance between security and providing our frontline troops the information they need".
This qualitative study identified and explored providers' perceived health threats of climate change, as well as their perceived role as frontline disseminators of information and detectors of disease for their patients.
In these groups, frontline clinicians shared information, reflected on it, and related it to their own work and the clinical pathway as one whole to detect areas for improvement.
The focus groups sought to identify and explore providers' perceived health threats of climate change, as well as their perceived role as frontline disseminators of information and detectors of disease for their patients.
The use of Telehealth as an early-warning syndromic surveillance system will promote communication between the acute care sector and the public health sector of the health care system, by relying on the acute care system as a frontline source of information for the more effective planning and management of public health resources.
Specifically, resting hyperperfusion would confer advantage to regions that are at the "frontline" of the information-processing cascade, such as subcortical limbic areas, whereas regions involved in downstream modulation could afford relative hypoperfusion at rest.
The left hand side of the figure outlines the prestudy governance processes for mortality data within the general medical division and hospital and shows no upward reporting from divisions to the hospital board and only informal cascading of information down to frontline staff.
Still, frontline employees have valuable information that typically isn't transmitted and amplified.
Matthew Swindells, NHS England's national director for operations and information, said frontline services were improving in the face of intense pressure.
