The contract was based on an item of service (IOS) for payment (often later described as a 'drill and fill' treadmill), apart from a small element of capitation introduced in 1990 the contract and system was largely unchanged until contract reform in 2006.
In 2004, a new General Medical Services contract was introduced in the UK.
When the first contract round was introduced in the late nineties, there were three hundred providers.
A stochastic Markov-chain model that takes into account possible local or more dispersed global effects on the risk of contracting disease is introduced in the context of the transmission dynamics of tuberculosis.
A major challenge, nonetheless, is how to ensure systematic institutionalization of programme objectives through the new contract performance management approach introduced in the public sector.
Several regional and state Hispanic chambers have endorsed H.R. 2568, the Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act, which was introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA).
I wrote a bill that was introduced in the House of Representatives titled the Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act that simply stated this: the federal government will no longer report contracts awarded to publicly traded companies as small business contracts.
Induction of labor to effect early delivery was introduced in the mid-18th century as a management option for contracted pelvis [ 17].
When freedom of choice regarding primary healthcare was introduced in October 2009, the number of PHCCs contracted in the region rose immediately from 143 to 205, of which 200 were still in business one year later [ 7].
