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National quality requirements in the delivery of Out-of-Hours services: 2006

From 1st January 2005, all providers of out-of-hours (OOH) services have been required to comply with the national OOH Quality Requirements, first published in October 2004. The recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO) identified a number of problematic aspects of the current Requirements and, since then, the Department has worked with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to review the Quality Requirements in the light of these observations

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