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Setting standards for children's healthcare services
- The proposed National Service Framework (NSF) for children's healthcare services must be agreed and implemented as a matter of urgency.
- The NSF should include a programme for the establishment of standards in all areas of children's acute hospital and healthcare services.
- The NSF should set obligatory standards which must be observed, as well as standards to which children's services should aspire over time.
- The NSF should include incentives for the improvement of children's healthcare services, with particular help being given to those trusts most in need.
- The NSF must include plans for the regular publication of information about the quality and performance of children's healthcare services at national level, at the level of individual trusts, and of individual consultant units.
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