With the aim of improving standards, based on the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) and Dutch Society of Surgery (DSS) Guidelines, we introduced an operation note proforma for use following laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a tertiary centre in the UK.
Others, including Per Thulberg, who runs Sweden's school system on which the Tories' plans are said to be based, have said the free schools will not improve standards.
Based on this approach, an assessment of PCTs' ability to improve standards across different Performance Indicators may provide a different perspective to that considered here.
It called for immediate action to improve standards.
But we've done a lot to improve standards.
However, the NHS always works to improve standards.
Evidence the policy will improve standards is inconclusive.
Incorporating suggested recommendations will further improve standards.
Two general approaches have been pursued to address drug resistance: development of new therapeutics, and drug combinations that improve standard platinum and/or taxane based chemotherapy.
This research demonstrates how Semantic Web technologies can be utilised as a basis for standards development and representation in order to improve standards-based interoperability between trading partners.
Ministers wanted to use an intensive inspection regime to force improvements in standards, based on the principle that councils should be seeking to continually improve their services.
