Underlying principles
- Needs led not provider focused
- Inclusive especially of rural and BME needs
- Building on what already works well
- Delivery of quality services in the most effective way
- Fostering collaboration not competition
- Sustainability of provision
- Balancing considerations of cost effectiveness, critical mass, quality and “closeness to the point of need” in relation to the roles and relationships between generic and specialist infrastructure, urban and rural service delivery, and between local, sub-regional and regional infrastructure services
- Stakeholder ownership
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