This document provides an update about health reform. It then focuses on commissioning NHS services, and in particular hospital services. It sets out a framework detailing key changes designed to strengthen commissioning and ensure commissioning drives health reform, improved health and healthcare, and improved financial health for the NHS.
This is an annex to Health Reform in England: update and commissioning framework and should be read in conjunction with that document.
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