Background for this project
Three of the authors have been commissioners of health care
and four led initiatives to improve professional practice.Box 1
gives the current English definition of ‘commissioning’.
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Improved commissioning of services with better outcomes
for the school age population is recognised by paediatricians
as an imperative.19 The rationale for this review was to find
the best available evidence (and to locate the major gaps in
knowledge) for health planners in any country, working with
that population.