As Prof Chris Ham, chief executive of the King's Fund, warned recently, "laid on top of a system that is already struggling to cope with rising demand, the leaders of NHS organisations commissioning and providing care are already wondering out loud whether they will be able to maintain services of acceptable quality and balance their budget".
They repeatedly vote with their consumption patterns in favor of anyone who provides reliable goods and services of acceptable quality at a reasonable price.
The focus was on ascertaining the functional ability of facilities to provide services of acceptable standards.
Despite progressive return to peace, the availability of basic social services of acceptable quality is very low and basic indicators related to children and women have deteriorated.
However strong cooperation is needed between the few specialized services and primary care sites to deliver services of acceptable quality; this is particularly important to increase the expertise of primary care generalist physicians [ 33, 34].
As the complexity increased, it also became necessary to ensure that the services developed were of acceptable quality.
Using HSU ratings of experiences in accessing and using health services, reference points of acceptable quality of care related to some aspects of care -namely travel and waiting time as well as expenditure- were developed.
The focus group interviews showed that the clinicians found the safety of the service acceptable, that the service improved the continuity of the rehabilitation programme for the patients and that the service improved the possibility of including the patient's everyday life by giving the staff the opportunity to see the patient in his or hers own home.
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