The Framework outlined below, in a message from the DoH, has been on the www for
several months. Whilst this applies to Renal patients it could be a useful model
for other patients. There are now, or soon will be, available assist devices for
patients with heart, liver and lung complaints that will require a transplant.

John E

COPY: DoH Message

The Renal National Service Framework: we want to hear your views!

The Department of Health is developing a National Service Framework (NSF) to
improve renal services, and we have launched an interactive website on
www.doh.gov.uk/nsf/renal.htm. You will find information there about the scope
of the NSF, and who is on our External Reference Group. The Renal NSF is in
four parts: the first, on the Effective Delivery of Dialysis, is expected next
year; the second is on Transplantation, to be followed by Primary Prevention and
Pre-Dialysis, and Alternative Models of Care.

We hope that you will use the website to give us your views, by contributing to
the discussion area, or by suggesting a standard for inclusion in the NSF. We
would like to hear all points of view, whether you use the service, provide it,
or just feel strongly about some aspect of it. So please, visit our website, and
have your say!

To help promote the NSF, the �Bulletins� section of the website includes a
printable poster/handout for display.

If you do not have access to the internet at home, you can find it at many
public libraries. If you cannot get onto our website, however, you can still
write to us: please address your letters to Ms Jane Verity, Renal NSF,
Department of Health, Room 407 Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London
SE1 8UG.

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