What are NSFs?
National Service Frameworks (NSFs) are long term strategies for improving specific areas of care. They set national healthcare standards. They are designed to improve the quality of health services and make sure that everyone gets the same level of care. NSFs set measurable goals and ensure that progress is made within agreed time scales. At present, there are NSFs about cancer, paediatric intensive care, diabetes, coronary heart disease, mental health, renal services, long-term conditions, children and older people. However, new NSFs are being developed. NSFs have a number of aims and objectives which are usually expressed as standards by which improvements will be judged. These standards therefore describe the level of service you are entitled to expect from each improvement area. Please click here to access the NSF section of the Department of Health website and find out more.
NSFs [Nintendo Sound Files] are a game’s music, ripped out of the game and playable in music programs, such as the many NSF plugins for WinAmp. This format was developed by Kevin Horton in 1999, and is very similar to the popular SID format used for C-64 music rips. NSFs are unlike GYM or [in some ways] SPC music files from other systems because they are not recordings of the NES audio. They are instead 6502 program code and data extracted from an NES ROM, and allowed to function on their own, making music through the NES’ audio hardware. This is why NSFs loop properly just like the original music in the game. So, for every NSF file you see out there, somebody went through the work of finding the music code, isolating its entry points, and separating it into another file. NSFs sound good.
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