My preference is to ration research funding by excellence.
"My preference is to ration research funding by excellence and back research teams of international quality – and screen out mediocrity – regardless of where they are and what they do," he said.
"My preference is to ration research funding by excellence and back research teams of international quality and screen out mediocrity regardless of where they are and what they do," Cable said.
In December, the agency was even briefly forced to cut rations when funding ran low, though Dunford said there is no current shortage.
Countries struggled to retain the coverage levels of the communist period, which had given universal access to a broad range of (admittedly, poor-quality) health services., Many opted to ration publicly funded health services, such as through limiting the scope of basic benefit packages or introducing patient cost-sharing.
One of the changes with great impact, for example, was the move from rights-based supplementary benefits payments to a cash-limited and heavily rationed social fund for the poorest.
She got her rations and funds from various sources merchants, people in the neighbourhood, church friends, and their friends.
What happens, for example, when someone applies for a ?10,000 grant, the maximum a 35-year-old Italian researcher can hope to be awarded, and then sees these peanuts further rationed because national funding has been cut?
The experience of Sweden, for instance, demonstrates that charging for more services than is current practice within the NHS can raise money without damaging health outcomes.The government remains parochial on the dual questions of funding and rationing because it likes to present itself as the guardian of the NHS's founding principles.
The dearth of new housing, allied to the rapidly growing population and continued rationing of mortgage funds for first-time buyers, has been a key factor behind the relentless upward trend in the cost of being a tenant.
