Item of Service , IOS (Abkürzung)

Kerrison is doing it on an item of service basis.

The police already employed him on an item of service basis, and paid generously enough for each case.

Finally, treatment protocols could each be delivered as an item of service - a logical step from payment for health promotion clinics which diagnose disease.

Better tuning of capitation and item of service payment to reflect the work involved in earning them might also improve the performance of primary care.

Why have our negotiators not insisted on item of service payment until the date of introduction of target payments, as occurred with the other childhood immunisations?

When he took on his current job, in the mid-nineteen-eighties, the college guide was little more than an item of service journalism tucked away inside U.S. News magazine.

Generally, reconditioned items of service clothing; field, semi-dress and winter padded uniforms; some dyed black, were issued for all types of fatigue and maintenance details.

As social workers have always known, the 'product' is in fact a 'process'- an explanation and acceptance of change mediated through social relationships - not a standardized item of service.

But also what makes doctors competent has to be supplemented by what makes them caring: it is not just a matter of providing items of service against a contract, a costed menu.

All item of service claim forms received from these practices by 1 September 1992 were retrieved and alternate forms were analysed, with details of night visits performed between 1 July 1991 and 30 June 1992 being recorded.