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Current Issues in the Health and Social Care Field: National Service Frameworks National Service Frameworks (NSFs) have been implemented, by the government, to establish a set of minimum National Standards for clinical quality and access to services for the major care and disease groups. They aim to improve performance and decrease geographical variations in health and care standards. They establish performance milestones against which, the performance of a particular department can be measured; this is called benchmarking. NSFs are developed with the assistance of an expert reference group, which brings together health professionals, service users and carers, health service managers, partner agencies and others; they are supported by the Department of Health. The NSFs launched so far include: * Cancer NSF (1998) * Paediatric Intensive Care NSF (1998) * Mental Health NSF (1999) * Coronary Heart Disease NSF (2000) * Older People NSF (2001) There are currently NSFs in preparation for: * Diabetes * Renal Services * Children's Services * Long Term...

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