Mr Compton, who is chief executive of the Health and Social Care board said the so-called escalation arrangement is not as a result of this latest incident, but because in the past month the Royal's emergency department had been persistently breaching its waiting targets.
This was instituted long before our study period as a governmental response to persistently long waiting lists for these patient groups over the decades.
Flying the flag Reprints Related topics Conservative Party (Britain Englandd Alan Milburn Europe Western EuropeMore important, as senior doctors and managers have persistently pointed out, the political significance of waiting lists is much greater than their clinical importance: as a measure of the NHS's efficiency and success, waiting lists are at best imprecise and at worst actually damaging.
Further, among other things, our new superintendent is looking to expand our magnet schools of excellence which have long waiting lists and completely reorganize our persistently failing schools.
There's a short queue of people waiting to get in before me, but I hover persistently.
Economists say the direction of the market has become so uncertain that many buyers and sellers are now staying on the sidelines, waiting to see what happens to prices and mortgage interest rates, which have remained persistently high in relation to the country's sluggish economic performance.
Another type of patience involves waiting out life's hardships without frustration or despair -- think of the unemployed person who persistently fills out job applications or the cancer patient waiting for her treatment to work.
A fundamental problem is that he persistently refers to "the Anglican church" throughout his account of its history since 1533, with a further implication that even before that, Anglicanism had always been sitting in the cupboard under the stairs, waiting for the pope to go away.
Waiting, waiting, and waiting.
The company, which showed consistent revenue growth, but persistently larger losses, decided to wait.
