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Opinion: Soapbox - The NHS wants to support Every Child Matters

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The challenge facing the NHS has always been to provide excellent care and services within limited budgets.

Reconfiguration has played, and continues to play, a major part inensuring services are consistently responsive to developing localcircumstances.

Two reports by Sheila Shribman, the UK's children's health tsar, haveoutlined the way in which reconfiguration and health reforms will impacton services for children (Children Now, 14-20 February).

Making it Better for Mother and Baby and Making it Better for Childrenand Young People make the clinical case for reconfiguration. Theyoutline how it will change the way care is provided so patients havegreater choice and better access to local services. The aim is to beable to provide highly-specialised care as well as more generalhealthcare services closer to home.

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