Crucially, Francis also highlighted the key impact of the trust board's decision to try to save £10m in 2006-07, as part of its desire to gain foundation trust status.
The orchestra has to pay the full-time contract musicians anyway, so the short-concert "program" becomes a contorted method for an orchestra to gain foundation money to meet its basic expenses.
Ipswich Hospital's chief executive says a critical report into care of older people has set back its ambition to gain foundation trust status.
It closed in 1976 when it was replaced by York Hospital, which opened the same year and gained Foundation status in April 2007.
Thirty four of the English trusts gained foundation status or were early implementers of payment by results during the period of analysis.
Do we want children to suffer the misery of failing to gain foundations in literacy and numeracy merely because they have been unlucky in the lottery of birth?
Some 65% of full-time students were still studying six months after gaining their foundation degree, and 47% were working.
For East Timor, South-East Asia's poorest nation, it represents the difference between gaining a foundation for economic independence and being propped up by aid.
On gaining her foundation degree, she was promoted to a management position, and she's since upgraded to a BA honours degree.
This study was designed to determine the feasibility of understanding multifactorial influences on maternal pregnancy and postpartum weight trajectories with the goal of gaining critical foundations of knowledge, experience and infrastructure on which to base future intervention research.
She now hopes to gain a foundation scholarship to study in France, she said, and dreams of being a conductor.
