Clinical Standards Advisory Group.

to regional and national centres. Your investigations will consider, but not be limited to, the effects of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 in a representative sample of NHS regions and boards. The four services you have selected are neonatal intensive care; cystic fibrosis; childhood leukaemia; and coronary artery bypass grafting." As for all its projects, the Clinical Standards Advisory Group appointed a committee to steer the work, chaired in this case by Professor John Richmond. Owing to the disparate nature of the four services, the committee established four working groups (box), which included experts in clinical practice and in public health medicine; they