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Broadly, specialised services are those with low patient numbers but which need a critical mass of patients to make treatment centres cost effective. Particular challenges for these services include training specialist staff, supporting high quality research programmes, and making the best use of scarce resources like expertise, high tech equipment and donated organs. Specialised services are subject to different commissioning arrangements than other NHS services.
