"stretched service" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used to describe a service that has been extended or expanded beyond its usual capacity or limitations. Example: Due to the high demand for internet access during the pandemic, our internet provider has stretched their service to cover more remote areas.
While evidence in favour of CCT for low-income and middle-income countries is growing, little is known about the effects and challenges of CCT in post-conflict settings where resources are stretched, service provision is limited, systems are fragile, and security is tenuous.
She added: "There's no increase in the funding envelope and so an already stretched service will be stretched even thinner".
Susanna Daus, placements operational manager at Islington council, welcomes the legislation, while acknowledging that it creates additional pressure on a stretched service: "We've got a nice group of foster carers who do foster teenagers, but if they take a 16-year-old, that might be another four years before they have a vacancy".
The need for timely completion of investigations to adhere to pre-charge bail rules places additional stress on an already stretched service.
If such cases are to be brought to MDT meetings in the UK, then an already stretched service might buckle under the strain.
A benefit for nursing included an increased scope of practice for the community nurses involved, but the additional workload, particularly within an already stretched service, was identified as a challenge.
This is further straining highly stretched services.
They must not make further cuts to already stretched services.
With stretched services already seeing people "fall through the cracks", he fears the fault lines can only widen.
BA had earlier apologised to passengers for the disruption, blaming the cancellations on a combination of technical problems and "stretched" services at Heathrow.
Up to 20 shelters for homeless and vulnerable women will shut their doors within weeks after the already stretched services sector saw $6m of their funding redirected by the New South Wales government to regional areas.
