Cheshire & Merseyside ICB commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to undertake a clinical review of their options appraisal regarding the preferred way forward for the delivery of services currently delivered by the Trust. This review included the process,...
NHS England’s Regional Medical Director for the North East and Yorkshire region to assess whether the Senate could assist NLaG’s Chief Medical Officer with a critical friend review of the gynaecological oncology multi-disciplinary team (MDT) processes to ensure that...
In March 2022 the Northern England Clinical Senate was approached by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and it’s commissioners, to review proposals to change the existing configuration of the older adult inpatient wards to deliver specialist care...
In December 2021, the Northern England Clinical Senate was approached by the North West Specialised Commissioning Women and Children’s Transformation Programme to provide assurance on potential new models of care associated with specialised paediatric services. When...
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to undertake this review with the aim of providing an independent critical friend view of the options for future delivery of safe and sustainable level 3 critical care services at Furness General...
In 2019 the Clinical Senate undertook a review of the plans for a Yorkshire and Humber-wide acute aortic dissection rota, the implementation of which was interrupted due to the global pandemic. In 2024 the Senate was presented with plans for a rota involving Hull and...
Following a Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Senate review in 2020, the Senate was approached in January 2022 by the Humber Acute Services (HAS) programme team, supported by all of its commissioners, to provide further independent clinical assessment on an updated set of...
Following a Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Senate review in 2020 and in 2022, the Senate was approached in December 2022 by the Humber Acute Services (HAS) programme team, supported by its commissioners, to provide further independent clinical assessment on an updated...
The London Clinical Senate was asked to review the NHS North West London adult (18+) community-based specialist palliative care services improvement programme and proposed new model of care, the London Clinical Senate commend the programme team for the quality and...
The London Clinical Senate reviewed the draft Pre-Consultation Business Case in advance of submission to the Stage 2 NHSE assurance processes. The review covered: The clinical case for change. The different clinical care model options and their implications for...
This project aimed to investigate the perceptions, enablers and barriers to integrating the NHS England Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) roles into primary care within the Midlands.
This project reviewed the barriers to achieving a net zero NHS, focusing on sustainability in surgery. The team analysed regional green plans and found varying adherence to NHS sustainability goals. A brief video summarising the findings of this project can be viewed...
This project aimed to review the concept of risk in systems (actual and perceived), who owns risks and at what levels, the impact it has on service delivery and how this could be reimagined from a system perspective instead of organisational perspective to improve...
The London Clinical Senate reviewed the draft Pre-Consultation Business Case in advance of submission to the Stage 2 NHSE assurance processes. The Senate focussed on the following questions: Is the case for change supported by evidence and best practice guidance?...
The London Clinical Senate reviewed the draft Pre-Consultation Business Case in advance of submission to the Stage 2 NHSE assurance processes. The review covered: The clinical case for change. The different clinical care model options and their implications for...
The London Clinical Senate reviewed the draft Pre-Consultation Business Case in advance of submission to the Stage 2 NHSE assurance processes. North West London ICS asked the London Clinical Senate to provide independent advice on proposals to transform elective...
Clinical Senate Forum – Summary Report for this forum explored the connection between mental health and long-term conditions. Presentations and discussion were informed by population, patient, and service perspectives. These were underpinned by research and brought to...
The West Midlands Clinical Senate was commissioned by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) to undertake a clinical review of their proposed new model of delivery for the Hyper Acute Stoke Unit (HASU) and the Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) within the...
Recommendations from the South-West Clinical Senate Council on how we might deliver sustainable early intervention and prevention activities for children in the South West region to help stem the tide of rising demand for mental health services for children and young...
Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board and Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, through the Shaping Care Together programme, commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to undertake an independent clinical review of plans for the future delivery of...
South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Sunderland CCG jointly commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to refresh the previous independent clinical review, in line with the NHS England Stage 2 assurance process, of the proposed models of care for South...
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to undertake an independent ‘critical friend’ review of a proposed option by Lancashire & South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme (L&SC NHP) for the future delivery of Urgent...
The aim of the review was to undertake an independent clinical review of the proposed plans for New Hospitals Programme (NHP) capital funding for Lancashire & South Cumbria (L&SC), specifically the Framework Model of Care being developed to support the...
The NW Specialised Commissioning team commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to undertake an early stage, independent clinical review of the draft case for change documents and the proposed clinical models of care for the future delivery of specialised tertiary cardiac...
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care Board commissioned the NW Clinical Senate to undertake an independent clinical review of the proposed models of care for the future delivery of services to adults with learning disabilities in Sheffield. At the time of...
The aim of the review was to provide advice and recommendations on the Case for Change for future delivery of Women’s Hospital Services in Liverpool. The piece of work focuses on Liverpool Women's Hospital and is a follow-up to previous reviews undertaken by both the...
The system commissioned the Clinical Senate to conduct a review and assess the proposed future service model, evaluation and internal recommendations from the pilot and proposed closure of the 18 bed Manthorpe ward. The panel were asked to consider the current service...
The Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board commissioned the Clinical Senate to provide assurance that all viable options concerning the provision of community rehabilitation beds in South Warwickshire, had been thoroughly explored. These options will serve...
This comprehensive report has been prepared by Johanna Kaminer on behalf of the South East Clinical Senate and Public Health, NHS England South East. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a significant cause of premature mortality, despite being largely preventable,...
The NHS is now 76 years from its post war inception and building a workforce capable of delivering the volume and breadth of health and social care to meet population needs continues to be a priority focus for national bodies. This national workforce challenge and its...
The Clinical Senate Council undertook an Independent Review of the local Clinical Governance and Assurance Processes relating to the Pre-Consultation Business Case for the Future Configuration of Intermediate Care and Stroke Rehabilitation Community Beds, the location...
Sharing and accessing patient health data is changing affording the NHS two unique opportunities. Firstly, to fully integrate individual patient care across the many boundaries that hitherto have served as barriers to data sharing within the healthcare system....
Recommendations from the South-West Clinical Senate Council on how we might ensure that children and young people waiting for paediatric specialties and/or within all-age (medical and surgical) and community pathways are appropriately prioritized and receive safe,...
A written thought piece. Reimagining the NHS...the next 75 years. Read more by following the link below
‘Reducing and preventing harm from opioid prescribing’ emerged as a deliberative topic for the Senate Council, from conversations with the South West Academic Health Science Network and the West of England Academic Health Science Network. Both networks had already...
The South West Clinical Senate notes that the workforce has been a key component within recent service reconfiguration proposals, often precipitated by Systems experiencing workforce challenges. Crucial to the delivery of safe and sustainable patient care, is having...
Recommendations from the South West Clinical Senate Council on quantifying harm to patients and staff relating to ambulance delays and system-level interventions to mitigate the impact.
Revisiting and Reenergising our focus on Climate Change January 2020 saw the launch of the ‘Greener NHS’ programme and the setting up of an NHS Net Zero Expert Panel chaired by Dr Nick Watts, the first NHS Chief Sustainability Officer, tasked to create a national road...
The West Midlands Clinical Senate was commissioned by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB) on behalf of the Integrated Care System (ICS) including University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) and University...
The Clinical Senate Review looked into a number of concerns that had been raised, including patient safety, culture and governance within the Upper GI Pathway at UHB.
Although the proposals for a specialist Children’s Hospital in Cambridge (CCH) did not constitute a significant variation in service provision from an NHS England assurance perspective, the East of England Clinical Senate Council welcomed the opportunity to provide...
To review staff experience of communication around ICSs to date and how they would want to be communicated with in the future.
This project includes a literature review and site visits to understand the management of TRD, including the developing evidence base of innovative approaches including nasal ketamine and rTMS
The East Midlands and West Midlands Clinical Senates worked in collaboration with Health Education England to complete this project which looked to assess variabilities in access to imaging requests for advanced practitioners working in acute trusts across the...
The scope of the project is to establish what a good therapeutic inpatient environment looks like and provide recommendations that can be shared with Midlands Provider Trusts to support them in providing: ‘…a therapeutic environment [which] provides the best...
The team have undertaken a project utilising internet search history as a repository of information on a new medical condition.
To understand the barriers to adoption of AI technology in healthcare and how this can be supported to better utilise the available technology. ...
This project has worked with a large GP practice to evaluate the feasibility of embedding a matrix approach to clinical governance.
The project aimed to understand the health inequalities within the backlog of particular services and make broad recommendations on how to close the gap. There are two distinct workstreams – Data and Literature Review....