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PubMed1992

Tendering for veterinary service contracts.

Despite the misgivings of many members of the veterinary profession, tendering for meat hygiene and other veterinary service contracts is becoming increasingly commonplace. In the article below, Mr Martin Cooke, a member of the BVA Company Services Advisory Committee and a veterinarian with extensive experience of public sector work, gives some advice on preparing and submitting a competitive tender.

Animals↗
PubMed1979

Pet health insurances and contract services: the potential for practice involvement.

Pet medical insurance has appreciable advantages and the existing policies appear to provide a beneficial service. But administrative costs of the small premiums involved make it of doubtful commercial attraction or benefit to the client. However, practice contract service schemes reduce administrative costs and can provide many of the advantages of insurance. Such a scheme is described. A coordinating agency outside the practice to produce promotional material, contracts, formulae for setting premiums and exclusions and to act as an arbitration agency for disputes could be established given the demand.

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PubMed1992

Hospitals look to hospitality service firms to meet TQM goals.

Hospitals that hire contract service firms to manage one or all aspects of their hospitality service departments increasingly expect those firms to help meet total quality management goals as well as offer the more traditional cost reduction, quality improvement and specialized expertise, finds the 1992 Hospital Contract Services Survey conducted by Hospitals.

Consumer Behavior↗
PubMed1976

An experiment in social engineering in serving the families of predelinquents.

One hundred and two predelinquent adolescents were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: an experimental condition in which behavioral contracting services were offered both at home and in school or a control condition in which clients were told that they could not be accomodated by project therapists and were informed about the possibility of their receiving treatment in other programs in the community. Most of those who were assigned to the control condition did not avail themselves of services in these other programs. Results indicate that, relative to the controls, the behaviorally treated youth scored small but statistically significant improvement relative to the controls on five measures: ratings of school behavior by the person who originally referred them for service, by their teachers, by their mothers, and by their fathers, and ratings of their parent-child interactions as measured by their mothers. Gains were also reported in mother's ratings of their children's behavior at home. The failure of significant gains to be made in two measures of school performance--grades and attendance--is explained by the failure of the treatment techniques to over-come an age-related deterioration in these areas found among most children in the participating schools. The failure of fathers to find significant improvement in their relationships with the referred adolescents is viewed as a consequence of unanticipated changes in the intrafamilial balance of power resulting from contracting services. Finally, a subsidiary analysis showed that the contracting service appeared to offer the greatest gain to the demographically defined sub-groups of youths who are among the population-at-risk in many juvenile courts.

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