If this is well managed, quality will be improved and service users will benefit from a choice of high-quality sexual healthcare providers.This approach should also be more cost-effective.Critics of this document will be frustrated by the recommendations that level 3 services provide clinical leadership and management across networks of care.Recent work from Bailey et al 7 has shown the ability of primary care to match case management standards but with no demonstrable public health or outcome measures.It is, therefore, imperative that level 3 providers recognise their responsibility to implement and facilitate improvement and attainment of all the standards.The end goal is measurable improvements in the detection and treatment of STIs, to which all clinicians and commissioners aspire.The standards provide a quality benchmark This opportunity must not be lost.These are our standards.What will you do differently today to begin the process of implementation?Competing interests None.
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