Appoint tsar to improve dementia services, says watchdog

Shortage of emergency department doctors needs urgent action, says watchdog.

England’s spending watchdog has urged health bosses to deal with staffing shortages in NHS emergency departments as part of a package of measures to tackle rising numbers of admissions. The National Audit Office also said that the Department of Health had to encourage more doctors to work in accident and emergency, remove barriers to seven day working in hospitals, and ensure greater use of ger...

Effective Interventions to Improve Triangular Clinic Services

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To Elect or to Appoint ?

In this appendix we consider a procedure to assess quantitatively whether the expressive or strategic voting model is more appropriate for the state supreme court voting data used in this paper. As we remarked in the main text, for a given set of cases, the first-stage likelihood function for the votes is identical for both the expressive and strategic voting models, and in this sense the two m...

How to appoint a senior house officer.

Balancing the power to appoint officers

Rules of k names are frequently used methods to appoint individuals to o¢ ce. They are two-stage procedures where a …rst set of agents, the proposers, select k individuals from an initial set of candidates, and then another agent, the chooser, appoints one among those k in the list. In practice, the list of k names is often arrived at by letting each of the proposers screen the proposed candida...