Sentence examples for the pcts from inspiring English sources

It may also signal the end of the PCTs.

It said its official scores for quality were consistently high, often above average for the PCTs involved.

The podiatry profession is not against change, but in my view the PCTs provide a system that works well.

I was intrigued to discover what would happen to this nice little hospital in the New Forest when the PCTs were abolished in April 2013.

Prior to that Jo was executive director for Nursing and Primary Care for three years and on the PCTs Board and Professional Executive Committee.

Furthermore, I fail to understand how abolishing the PCTs, losing their staff and setting up new consortiums, which then re-employ the staff, will save money.

"It would be better to have elected boards on the PCTs rather than on the foundation hospitals," argues Professor Le Grand.

The PCTs have to be strengthened so that they can square up to the powerful hospitals that have held sway since the NHS was created in 1948.

All of them, it seems, are ideologically incapable of calculating that if the PCTs are inefficient, some hospitals poorly managed and GPs take us for a ride then the centrally elected government should reform the PCTs, transfer the best managers of hospitals to the poor performers and negotiate with less naivety when dealing with the pay demands of GPs.

The PCTs say the cheaper alternative is safe and useful.

Figure 3a is the top view FESEM image of the PCTs.