In the NHS, a raft of interventions designed to make patient care safer are being implemented or are under development.
The challenge for many African countries is how to get into practice the whole raft of interventions known from research to be effective in improving quality of care.
"It is set to completely transform these deep rural communities in terms of healthcare, education, job creation and a raft of other interventions.
This point will be revisited later in terms of trial design but we should recognize how differences in genotype, age, comorbidity and environmental factors all combine uniquely within an individual patient to dictate the degree of systemic inflammatory response, not only to the stressor but also to the raft of therapeutic interventions delivered.
It offers a raft of sensible-sounding suggestions, including early intervention, offering a better mix of mainstream and specialist education, and letting schools rather than bureaucrats choose how to spend special-education money".We need to get very clever quite quickly," says Baroness Ashton, the minister responsible.
America and China have a raft of deep disagreements on, among other things, Taiwan, human rights, intervention, missile defence and the stealing of nuclear secrets.
The result is a raft of policies and initiatives aimed at national or micro-level, favouring big charities or individual intervention, the majority of which ignore the potential contribution of local voluntary and community organisations.
Users complained about a raft of things.
The report highlights a raft of failings.
It will bring a raft of challenges.
