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<p>Sustainability and transformation partnerships and integrated care systems are
made up of bodies including local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, which
retain statutory responsibility for providing health and care services for the populations
they serve. These include a range of services involved in children’s palliative care.</p><p>
</p><p>NHS England and the Department would expect all of these partners to be regularly
talking to, and working with, relevant organisations given their remit to identify
overall local need and to join up services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is also working
with commissioners, clinicians, voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations
and people with lived experience to refresh the children’s palliative and end of life
care service specification and the commissioning pathway, to reflect collective responsibilities
across health and social care. Work will continue on this until spring 2019. NHS England
is also making available guidance across the sector to support good practice, including
sharing examples.</p>
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