Could we apply the same principle to clusters of local surgeries within the NHS, enabling patients to identify the nearest available appointment to them, dynamically updated to take account of changes and cancellations?
President-elect Barack Obama is nearing an appointment of his "car czar" and appears to be focused on Steven Rattner, the financier with close connections to the Democratic Party, according to people briefed on the conversations.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is nearing the appointment of a special master to administer a multibillion-dollar fund created to provide financial compensation for rescue workers and others who became sick from toxic fumes, dust and smoke from ground zero after the 2001 attack, according to Congressional officials who are monitoring the deliberations.
Then, an appointment was made with the subject at the nearest appointed medical center involved in the study.
MEIN TAGEBUCH, 1998-2000 (MY DIARY .By Helmut Kohl.Droemer; 352 pages; DM44.90AS THE jacket of this book showing the author's substantial hands on a near-empty appointments diary makes clear, this is not a genuine journal, as the title suggests, but rather a highly subjective re-telling of events by an embittered, vengeful, vainglorious old man.
The very scant few who do pass the rigorous medical and lifestyle vetting (still no gay men allowed, unbelievably) are required to give of themselves at near-weekly appointments for a year or more.
For instance, Steven Rattner, a financier and consigliere to many of New York's media moguls, is near an appointment by President Obama to become the "car czar," a job that is unlikely to pay much and will probably involve lots of time in the much less glamorous or powerful Detroit.
"We would really like to get to a position where we can be near an appointment if it's feasible before the Stevenage game [on 21 September]," managing director John Nixon told BBC Radio Cumbria.
I'd come out of a subway and walk for blocks in the wrong direction, searching as my appointment neared for a public map only to find the "You Are Here" X blotted out by the thousands of lost souls before me who pressed their fingers to the same spot in hopes of somehow getting reoriented.
Pump download data revealed increased bolus intake as the patient's appointment neared.
They have also just acquired a new yard near Nuneaton (currently by appointment only).
