Commissioning Safe and Sustainable Specialised Paediatric Services provides a unique approach to the commissioning of specialised paediatric services.  It is of interest to those involved in commissioning or delivering specialised paediatric services, but it has broader implications. It provides for the first time a clinically agreed system for representing the nature of the relationships between specialised services. It sets out which services need to be delivered from the same location and which do not. This is of significance to anyone assessing the configuration of paediatric services and indeed any services that relate to them - both wider children’s services and services to adults.
Based on the Framework, a model is now being developed to assist the longer term planning of specialised children’s centres. Work is progressing in conjunction with colleagues from the National Specialised Commissioning Group and the regional Specialised Commissioning Groups. It will report in the Autumn.

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