Examples of national service

• Following this logic, national service requirements for university students have been tightened in different ways from 2002 onwards.

• Public opinion was now against compulsion and this was ' a very important factor ' when national service was in operation.

• It needs to become a branded national service for vulnerable older people to meet the level of need for a service of this kind.

• Perhaps this is why they welcome the national service frameworks and encourage the use of guidelines as these offer clarity, focus and a management plan.

• The national service framework for older people: modern standards and service models.

• They also need to recognize the national clinical priorities (and therefore the research priorities), such as those in the national service frameworks, and to demonstrate work in them.

• The latter has been made almost impossible for people of national service age in general and students in particular, who are commonly denied exit visas to leave the country.

• The emergence of clinical governance and the need to implement and monitor national service frameworks has reinforced the importance of maintaining high quality primary care data.