This report provides the following information about the provision and commissioning of highly specialised services during 2020/21:
- a description of each service
- a list of the expert centres that deliver the service
- NHS England’s expenditure on each service
- a measure of the activity that each service undertakes (patient numbers fewer than 30 are not included because of the risk of identifying individual patients)
- clinical outcomes from the service
- information about geographical equity in access to the service
- an update on new highly specialised services.
Appendix B summarises NHS England’s commissioning arrangements for highly specialised services across the devolved nations.