Patients would benefit from a review by facility management of their approach to several areas of clinic functioning, especially general access (for example, by having a booking system, and by differentiating between first and follow-up appointments), operational flow (in order to ensure adequate time for patient contact with key service stations) and staff training, practice and development.
I have seen ministers confronted with ridiculously detailed operational decisions, such as the appointment of a new boss for the state TV channel, which in Britain would be delegated to a regulator, but in Greece fell to minister of state Nikos Pappas.
As for patients already enrolled in ART, monitoring of appointment keeping was operational in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
"With his strong operational and South African background, his appointment likely means a commitment to South Africa remains," a group of Credit Suisse analysts wrote in a note to investors.
The telehealth centre staff facilitated the VC by ensuring that appointments are scheduled, equipment is operational and connections with remote sites occur seamlessly.
His first operational posting was relatively pleasant: a two-year appointment as englischer Dozent at a provincial German university: lectures on Keats and vacations in Bavarian hunting lodges with groups of earnest and solemnly promiscuous German students.
Some of the operational problems with the business predate Mr McNaughton's appointment, he said.
The PDCO has been operational with 27 members, even before finalisation of the appointment by the European Commission of the further 6 members representing healthcare professionals and patients' associations.
New York-based Medis Technologies Ltd has announced that, consistent with its recent appointment of Tom Finn as executive vice president of operational restructuring, it has initiated a comprehensive cost rationalization plan designed to reduce operating costs and enhance operational efficiencies.
By June 1944 the Jones Bostock conflict and the anomalous division of administrative and operational responsibilities again led the Australian government to consider the appointment of a new commander senior to both officers.
