Examples of consultative

• Unlike a nephrology consult, successful ethical practice does not easily fit in the consultative paradigm: it requires more than a 15-minute discussion.

• The category of coopted membership was created last year to enable professionals to join the 63-year-old consultative body.

• A convergence with the emerging participatory, consultative approach to environmental issues can be detected.

• Regional co-ordination meetings serve as consultative forums, and there are national meetings of the regional co-ordinators.

• Clinical caregivers have a critical role to play through fulfilling consultative and oversight responsibilities.

• The 1997 party program seems equally comfortable speaking of "consultative democracy" or just "democracy" and is more explicit about the necessity of pluralism.

• Multistranded, formal consultative structures and\or less formal policy networks and various forms of ' embeddedness ' should play a role in the most promising cases.

• It generally has no more than a consultative role in the process of contract definition.