Sarah Cooper examines the proposals in each region and what it could mean for children's health services. Getting NHS services closer to people's homes is the key message from the various 10-year plans published by England's strategic health authorities (SHAs). But children's services professionals say joint commissioning arrangements are paramount in making the SHAs' vision for improving children's healthcare a reality. NHS North West, for example, wants children's trusts to jointly commission children's health services with primary care trusts. But Jasmine...


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