NHSE also highlighted variation in terms of the range of community services across the country that are not specified or described clearly or consistently. It explained that these services are coded, measured and counted in different ways and often funded through block contracts. NHSE is seeking to standardise community services which it hopes will enable it to properly identify “true” variation instead of seeing different ways of describing services.23 NHSE reported that it has standardised about 75% of all community services, which it expects will give ICBs the information they need to properly identify local need and commission appropriately to respond to that need.24 Oversight arrangements