National Service Frameworks

HC Deb 08 January 2002 vol 377 cc679-80W

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list which national service frameworks are planned for 2002; and when in that year. [24679]

Jacqui Smith

Work is in hand to publish the Diabetes National Service Framework (NSF) Delivery Strategy; the first module of the Renal NSF; and the first module of the Childrens' NSF. The precise publication dates are not fixed at this stage as in selecting a topic for and developing and implementing a national service framework, account is not only taken of the importance of a health issue in terms of morbidity and mortality and the scope for service improvement but also of the capacity of the national health service and its partner agencies to implement the framework.