Sentence examples for reforms of payment from inspiring English sources

Appropriate policy responses may include attempts to avert the loss of housing in association with admission, efforts to increase housing supply and the speed at which it is made available, and reforms of payment systems to encourage this.

One example is the reform of payment systems in American hospitals introduced 20 years ago.

Reform of payment arrangements to remove the incentive in secondary care to admit patients to hospitals.

So this year I am hoping that a national commission on the long-term funding of health and care is successful, that radical reform of payment mechanisms become a reality and that we finally focus on public health, prevention and social care.

Various solutions have been proposed, including programs to encourage placement in underserved communities and reform of payment schemes, which put a premium on procedure-based medicine instead of preventative treatment.

• To the Editor: Nancy Kane ("Keep Hospitals Whole") is correct that fundamental reform of our payment system is required to lower health care costs.

These include strengthening professional self-regulation, enforcing rules of good medical practice, revision of medical curricula with an emphasis on the ethics of the doctor-patient relationship, a reform of provider payment mechanisms, and ensuring quality improvements in service delivery.

That of children living in poverty has actually grown, reaching 36% last year, because as part of the benefit reforms of 2003 extra payments for families with five or more children were abolished.Israel's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has also climbed steadily to reach one of the highest levels in the developed world.

The committee agrees to that reform of direct payments.

He also criticised "the immaturity" of some parties in the Northern Ireland Executive who are blocking Westminster-driven reform of welfare payments.

But more can be done: for starters, we could speed up the implementation of payment reform, stop Medicare payments for tests and treatments that provide no benefit and endorse competitive bidding for medical goods and services.