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independent sector treatment centre

A general term for a privately owned treatment centre often located on the same campus as the NHS hospital it serves, which provides common elective (i.e. non-emergency) surgery and diagnostic procedures—e.g., hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, MRIs, etc.—under contract with the NHS.

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The research conducted at the ISTC for Visual Cloud Systems will use Intel technologies including Intel Xeon processors, edge devices, and imaging and camera technology.

United States : Intel Sets up Research Program with Carnegie Mellon to Improve Online Video as Virtual Reality and 360-Degree Tech Multiply

With RightCycle, ISTC was able to reach 89 percent compliance for gloves in its labs--even higher than the rate for paper and cardboard recycling.

How to take recycling to the next level: recycling cardboard and paper is an eco-friendly solution for labs, but we must expand the products we recycle to truly make an impact on waste generation

Realizing the social aspects and stigma associated with the disease in Indian set-up, standards for social inclusion for TB have been proposed which were not there in ISTC. These include information on TB prevention and care seeking; free and quality services; respect; confidentiality and sensitivity; care and support through social welfare programs; and addressing counselling and other needs.

Standards of tuberculosis care: an Indian perspective

Bruges, Colard Mansion, circa 1476 [CIBN A-251; ISTC: ia00478100]

A note on the provenance of bibliotheque Nationale de France, RES D.862, a collection of Colard Mansion Prints

Between 1994 and 2009, the ISTC in Moscow had received more than $803 million in funding from its participating nations, with the United States providing about $220 million of this total.

State Department

These centres, which represent the next USD30m instalment of Intel's recently announced five-year, USD100m ISTC programme, will focus on cloud and embedded computing research.

Intel Labs announces USD30m investment in two Intel Science and Technology Centres (ISTC)

The ISTC programme offers patients greater choice and access to health services across the UK.

Wragge part of NHS plan for new multi-million pound treatment centre

One recent effort to set standards for quality in TB care is the "International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC)", released as a report on World TB Day 2006 (13), and subsequently published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases (14).

Are we providing quality care to our patients with tuberculosis?

Agency for International Development, has released the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) and The Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care.

International Standards for Tuberculosis Care and The Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care

Much of the book is literally charts, or rather tables, of editions produced in five-year periods, as derived from the records of the Incunable Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC).

Printing the Classical Text

The union was born as a result of a merger of the former carpet weavers' organisation, first with the steelmakers' ISTC and then with the footwear workers' union.

Worcestershire News: Former carpet staff lay out party plans; KIDDERMINSTER

With close to $750,000 from the International Science and Technology Centre (ISTC), scientists will examine particle separation in fuels such as petroleum.