Undertaking the alignment of continuing NHS healthcare criteria across the West Yorkshire Health Authorities and PCTs as required by the Department of Health.  This included a process for understanding both the financial and infrastructure risks associated with changes in eligibility, together with proposals for the future monitoring and audit of practice.  Subsequent work focussed on ensuring the appropriate supportive infrastructure was in place, implementation of the agreements from Stage I, completion of a medium/long-term financial risk analysis including the modelling of demand and uptake for continuing care, ensuring a common understanding across the PCTs and within the SHA, and establishing a methodology for collecting PCT based information on expenditure, numbers and unit costs so that future trends can be accurately and comparatively measured.