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<p>The NHS Long Term Plan outlines the expectation that all National Health Service-funded
care providers in England should have implemented the learning disability improvement
standards by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Inclusion of the improvement standards in the
NHS Standard contract 2019/20, mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners of
all healthcare services except primary care, means that all providers must have regard
to the improvement standards and guidance.</p><p> </p><p>To monitor and ensure compliance
with the improvement standards, NHS Improvement has commissioned the NHS Benchmarking
Network to facilitate national data collection across all NHS trusts, including NHS
community trusts and NHS ambulance trusts.</p>
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