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On behalf of the London and South East Clinical Senates we are pleased to share the final joint Senates’ report of the proposed changes to the children’s specialist cancer services Principal Treatment Centre Programme (PTC) serving Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Kent...

How can we build a sustainable NHS that will enable innovation and support the restoration of evidence-based interventions, suspended during the COVID 19 pandemic? What models of care could help to address this?

How can we support people in the South West to live well with pain whilst reducing and preventing harm from opioids medication?

Service reconfiguration is a window of opportunity to drive forward the delivery of fair and equitable care. Both service providers and commissioners have a responsibility to support the triple aim of improving quality of care, reducing health inequalities across...

The Clinical Senate were proactively approached to review the historical legacy arrangements in place for the stroke services pathway (end to end) with the aim to highlight areas of focus and opportunities that will ensure the delivery of clinically sustainable, high...

The Clinical Senate was engaged by Black Country Integrated Care Board to undertake a clinical review of the proposed reconfiguration of the Urology Services between The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The proposal looked to reorganise...

Workforce retention in healthcare and lessons learned from actions taken by organisations during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Recommendations quantifying harm to patients and staff relating to ambulance delays and system-level interventions to mitigate the impact.

Recommendations from the South West Clinical Senate Council on empowering and equipping clinicians, the wider workforce, healthcare leaders, and patients on making the necessary change in response to the threat of climate change, to protect the health of current and...

The Clinical Senate was proactively engaged by NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) to gain independent, external clinical support from the Senate on their plans to maintain the current provision of community-based care at home for older...

The East Midlands Clinical Senate were proactively engaged by the Lincolnshire System (specifically, the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) to gain independent, external clinical support from the Clinical Senate on their...

The East of England Clinical Senate was approached by Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust (PAH)  to undertake a review for proposals for an out of hospital model as part of new build hospital proposals on the Princess Alexandra Hospital site in Harlow. Please note that...

The East of England Clinical Senate was asked to review the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (WHHT) plans for investment in their estate; recognising the potentially detrimental impact on the delivery of safe, effective, responsive and efficient care resulting...

The Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) asked the East of England Clinical Senate to undertake an early stage review of its proposals for a change in vascular hub location within Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The East of England Clinical Senate invited clinicians from across the region to attend a workshop on 27 June 2022 to learn about health inequalities from a national and regional perspective, the five key Core20PLUS5 (Adults) areas of health inequality, and how health...

The South East Clinical Senate were requested by the NHS England regional reconfiguration assurance team to review proposals aimed at improving the experience and outcomes for patients through creation of a centralised HBPoS service for Kent and Medway. The...

The aim of this report is to provide guidance to help both systems and review panels to ensure sustainability is embedded into service change proposals from the outset and to demonstrate ‘what good looks like’ for us as a Clinical Senate.  We hope this report provides...

The East of England Clinical Senate supported Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership by providing independent clinical advice on their proposals for the future configuration of community inpatient beds resulting from the urgent service changes made in...

The East of England Clinical Senate undertook a desktop Independent Clinical Review to provide early-stage advice and an objective appraisal of the Norfolk & Waveney ICS/ICB System (N&W) Clinical Strategy, to be used in the further development of major...

The Clinical Senate has been asked to review the TNUH programme for the third time. The review focuses on any evidence gaps identified in the previous two reviews (December 2020 and April 2021), or where further work was to be undertaken by the system such as,...

The Clinical Senate has been asked to support the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) group with a review of their breast service and its governance structure at both Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital.

The Clinical Senate was commissioned by University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) to review the current model of medicine, cardiology and respiratory care across the Glenfield and Leicester Royal Infirmary sites and the proposed high-level model of change (both...

The West Midlands Clinical Senate was jointly commissioned to undertake a clinical review of the Inpatient Mental Health Services across South Staffordshire. This programme is being led by Midlands Partnership Foundation NHS Trust, with support from the Staffordshire...

Mount Vernon Cancer Center Radiotherapy Reprovision - April 2022 The East of England and London Clinical Senates were delighted to support the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC) with a Joint Independent Clinical Review of their proposals for radiotherapy reprovision....

In 2019, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) was formed following the merger of Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (AUHFT) and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust (RLBUHT). A number of services have already been...

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre - June 2021 The Clinical Senate undertook an Independent Clinical Review of a proposal for a revised clinical model for Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC) Services with reprovision on an acute hospital site.  

Suffolk Mental Health Alliance: Mental Health and Wellbeing Services in East & West Suffolk (Further Review) - November 2020 The East of England Clinical Senate undertook a review for the Suffolk Mental Health Alliance in December 2019 on its high-level proposals...

Suffolk Mental Health Alliance: Mental Health and Wellbeing Services in East & West Suffolk (Early Stage Review) - December 2019 The Clinical Senate supported the Suffolk Mental Health Alliance in the early phase of their development of plans for mental health...

The Improving Healthcare Together 2020 to 2030 programme (IHT) was set up by the predecessor bodies to NHS Surrey Heartlands and NHS South West London CCGs in January 2018 to find the best solutions for the long-standing issues facing Epsom and St Helier hospitals....

Clinical Senate Forum - Summary Report For this Forum, the London Clinical Senate joined with the London Personalised Care Network to improve the understanding of what co-production is, how it can be effectively used, explore approaches and techniques to achieve...

Herts Valley Clinical Commissioning Group (HVCCG) - Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Echocardiogram (Echo) service Report of the Clinical Review Panel held on 08 May 2018 The East of England Clinical Senate was requested to undertake a retrospective review of the actions...

Herts Valley CCG for West Hertfordshire Health and Care System - ‘Your Care, Your Future, Working together for a healthier west Herts’ Report of the Clinical Senate Independent Review Panel -  15 July 2015 The clinical review panel was asked to look at the early...

East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) - Elective Orthopaedic Care Centre (EOCC) Report of the Clinical Senate independent review panel held on 18 September 2019 The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) requested the East of...

Review of Clinical Services between Colchester Hospital University NHS FT and Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panel – 1 November 2017 In 2016, the Trusts committed to entering a long-term partnership and at the time of the...

South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) and North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEPFT) Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panel on 6 February 2017 The East of England Clinical Senate was asked to provide...

The Clinical Senate was commissioned by Derby and Derbyshire CCG to review the process and outcome of an options appraisal for the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Senate was proactively approached by the CCG to...

The Clinical Senate has been asked to support the development of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) group clinical strategy. The clinical review team were asked to consider the draft strategy as a whole, and particularly, if the draft strategy goes far...

EoE Clinical Senate Working Group Report:  Interventional Radiology in the East of England: the Role of Networks (January 2017) The EoE Clinical Senate was asked by the Chair of the East of England Medical Directors' Forum, if it could assist in progressing the issue...

Public Health England Report to the East of England Clinical Senate Assembly - "Addressing the Obesity Challenge in the East of England" (March 2017) Obesity is a major public health challenge and arises from a complex and interdependent interplay between political,...

EoE Clinical Senate Council - The Regional COVID-19 Pandemic Response and System Learning - Ethical Considerations (December 2020). Clinical Senate Council came together with a group of invited clinicians to consider ethical issues in relation to the transfer of both...

East of England Clinical Senate Council The regional COVID-19 pandemic response and system learning: "Adopt, Adapt, Abandon" -  July 2020 Clinical Senate Council reflected on "What have we learned about how health care can be delivered during the last twelve weeks?'

Review of the readiness of the NHS Acute Trusts to deliver Standard Eight of the National Seven Day Services Clinical Standards in the East of England This project was delivered by the East of England Clinical Senate and Public Health England working in collaboration...

Mid & South Essex Sustainability & Transformation Partnership (STP) - Acute Reconfiguration Options EoE Clinical Senate Independent Clinical Review Panels held 25 & 26 April 2018 (and General Surgery follow-up review panel 1 May 2018) The East of England...

NHS England, Midlands & East Specialised Commissioning on Siting of Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET CT) in South Essex  Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panel - 21 July 2016 The review will specifically look at the proposal...

Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust and Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panels of 13 & 20 October 2016 Review of the clinical proposals described within the full business case for the proposed...

Mid & South Essex Success Regime (MSE SR) Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panels of 4 & 5 October 2016 Clinical Senate undertook a first set of clinical review panels for the Mid and South Essex Success Regime (MSESR) team in June 2016. Those...

Mid and South Essex Success Regime (MSE SR) Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panel - 14 June 2016 The Essex Success Regime is one of three such programmes in the country, the others are in Devon and Cumbria. The Success Regime is part of the Five Year...

Mid & South Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (MSE STP) Supplementary Report of the follow up clinical review panel held on 17 October 2017 (NB: to be read in conjunction with the report of the clinical review panel of 18 September 2017) The...

Review of Accident and Emergency Services at Grantham & District Hospital (United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust) sponsored by NHS England and NHS Improvement Report of the Independent Clinical Senate Review Panel held on 22 November 2017 and approved by Clinical...

Mid & South Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (MSE STP) Report of the Independent Clinical Senate (Preliminary) Review Panel held 18 September 2017 This clinical review panel was convened for the Mid and South Essex Sustainability and...