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...
East Midlands Clinical Senate University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group Draft Clinical Strategy Review – Desktop Exercise (September 2021)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Interventional Radiology in the East of England (January 2017)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – PHE Report “Addressing the Obesity Challenge in the East of England” (March 2017)
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,...
East of England Clinical Senate Council – Regional COVID-19 Pandemic Response – Ethical Considerations (December 2020)
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 – Regional COVID-19 Pandemic Response and System Learning (July 2020)
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?'
East of England Clinical Senate/Public Health England – 7 Day Services (November 2015)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Mid and South Essex STP Acute Reconfiguration Options (April/May 2018)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Siting of Positron Emission Tomography-Computer Tomography (PET-CT) in South Essex (July 2016)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals FT and Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust (October 2016)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Mid and South Essex Success Regime Independent Review (October 2016)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Mid and South Essex Success Regime Independent Review (June 2016)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Mid and South Essex STP Supplementary Review (October 2017)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust – Review of Accident and Emergency Services (November 2017)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Mid and South Essex STP Acute Services Reconfiguration (September 2017)
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...
East of England Clinical Senate – Mid and South Essex STP Emergency General Surgery Review (December 2018)
Mid & South Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (formerly Success Regime) Report of the EoE Clinical Senate Independent Clinical Review Panel held on 5 December 2018. The East of England Clinical Senate has to date reviewed emerging proposals for...
East of England Clinical Senate – Paediatric Rheumatology Service Early Stage Review (May 2015)
NHS England Midlands & East Specialised Commissioning Report of the Clinical Senate Independent Review Panel - May 2015 The review panel was asked to specifically to look at the early outline proposal for the development of a Paediatric Rheumatology service...
South East Clinical Senate. Access and provision of primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (pPCI) in Kent and Medway. (May 2021)
A discussion was held with the SE Clinical Senates’ Councils, South East Coast Ambulance service (SECAmb), specialised commissioning and the recently established cardiac network representatives about the inequalities in patient care in ST-elevation Myocardial...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of the pre-Consultation Business Case for Stroke Services for West Sussex CCG. (Apr. 2022)
Stroke is a preventable and treatable disease; however, it is one of the leading causes of death in the UK and the largest single cause of severe disability. One in eight strokes are fatal within the first 30 days, with one in four strokes fatal within a year[1]. ...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of the pre-consultation business case for Ophthalmology Services for East Sussex CCG. (Sep. 2021)
More than 1.5 million people in England have reduced vision. It is estimated that this figure will double by 2050. The population is ageing and one in five people aged over 75 and half of people aged over 90 live with sight loss.[1] Lack of IT connectivity causes...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of the pre-consultation business case for Cardiac Services for East Sussex CCG. (Aug. 2021)
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) has been highlighted in the NHS Long Term Plan as one of the 8 clinical priority areas and cardiac services was one of 14 areas identified for rapid establishment of networks to support emergency and urgent care during a pandemic surge as...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of town centre primary care proposals for Eastbourne and Hastings. (Aug. 2019)
The two CCGs of East Sussex, Hasting and Rother, and Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford, identified the need to develop a consistent networked model for urgent care, that is aligned with the requirements set out in key national documents, including the NHS Long Term...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of the Hampshire Together: Modernising our Hospitals and Health Service Pre-Consultation Business Case. (May 2022)
The Hampshire Together Modernising our Hospitals & Health Services programme (MoHHS), comprising Hampshire, Southampton, and Isle of Wight (IoW) Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust (HHFT) are preparing the Pre-Consultation...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of the Hampshire Together: Modernising our Hospitals and Health Services Pre-Consultation Business Case – Addendum. (Dec. 2020)
Having completed a Clinical Senate Review 1-2 October 2020, the Hampshire Together – Modernising our Hospitals and Health Services (MoHHS) programme was notified by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on October 2nd, 2020 of conditions necessary to secure...
South East Clinical Senate. Review of the Hampshire Together: Modernising our Hospitals and Health Service Pre-Consultation Business Case. (Nov. 2020)
The Hampshire Together Modernising our Hospitals & Health Services programme, comprising Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (IOW), (partnership of CCGs), West Hampshire CCG and Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust are preparing the Pre-Consultation Business Case...
East of England Clinical Senate – Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG ‘Shape of the System’ Review (March 2015)
Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG - 'Shape of the System' Report of the Clinical Senate Independent Review Panel - March 2015 The East of England clinical senate was approached by the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide independent...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Bassetlaw Children’s Urgent Care & Emergency Services/March 2022
Review of plans to develop an Emergency Village at Bassetlaw Hospital incorporating a paediatric short stay assessment area.
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Shaping Care Together Programme-Southport & Ormskirk Hospital/November 2021
Following a Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Senate review in 2018, the Senate was approached in April 2021 by Southport and Formby CCG, to further review progress on the models of care that had been developed via the Shaping Care Together programme; a collaborative...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Mental Health Services at Bassetlaw Hospital/December 2020
Review of plans proposed to enhance the community mental health services in Bassetlaw in line with the Mental Health Long Term Plan. This endeavours to integrate services and enhance service models to be able to meet the access and outcomes detailed in the national...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Ophthalmology Clinical Assessment & Treatment Service Specification/March 2018
A review on behalf of North Lincolnshire CCGs on community ophthalmology services.
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Working Together Programme – Non-Specialised Children’s Surgery and Anaesthesia (Part 2)/January 2016
A review of the service specification on behalf of the Working Together Programme in relation to non-specialised children's surgery and anaesthesia.
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of Community Services Specifications/April 2015
Report on behalf of Calderdale, North Kirklees and Greater Huddersfield CCGs to review the proposals for a change in the provision of Community Services.
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Healthy Lives Healthy Futures Hyper Acute Stroke Proposals/October 2014
Report on behalf of North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire CCGs to review the options under consideration for Hyper Acute Stroke Services.
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Summary Position for Review of Services at Goole & District Hospital/October 2014
Position Report on behalf of NHS East Riding of York CCG summarising the Senate role in the review of services at Goole and District Hospital
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Healthy Lives Future ENT Proposal/June 2014
Report on behalf of North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire to review the options that are being considered for service change, including the preferred option, and contribute with any issues for the re-organisation of Ear Nose and Throat Surgery.
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Mid Yorkshire Health & Social Care Partnership Transformation/May 2014
Report on behalf of The Mid Yorkshire Health and Social Care Partnership Transformation Programme reviewing their Outline Business Case (May 2014) to provide advice regarding the case for change, the assumptions regarding changes in services and its impact upon...
Northern England Clinical Senate/Sunderland & South Tyneside Path to Excellence (Urgent Care & Paediatrics)/ January 2018
Sunderland CCG and South Tyneside CCG requested an independent clinical review of the safety, efficacy and robustness of two proposed paediatric service configurations which form part of a series of acute change proposals being put forward as part of the Path to...
Northern England Clinical Senate/Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust – Care For You Programme/December 2017
In September 2017, the Northern England Clinical Senate was approached by the Clinical Leadership Group of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust (with the support of its local clinical commissioning groups) who sought independent clinical advice and support as...
South West Clinical Senate. Recommendations _Report CYP Eating Disorders (Sept 2021)
The South West Clinical Senate met in Sept 2021 to develop recommendations for the following, maximising resources for Children & Young People community and inpatient services for Eating Disorders to manage the increased demand and acuity. Following the...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Physical Activity as Treatment (May 2019)
Further to our annual event in November 2018 on Physical Activity as Treatment, which was co-hosted with Public Health England, this theme was adopted into our proactive programmes of work. It has culminated in the brief report below that describes how and why...
East Midlands Clinical Senate ‘Winter Planning’: A Clinical and Qualitative Review of Current Practice for the East Midlands (July 2019)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate was commissioned by NHS England in response to the severe winter pressures experienced in 2017/18 to assess the evidence currently available to organisations within our region to assist in their planning for ‘Winter Pressures’, and to...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Ophthalmology Clinical Governance review (September 2021)
An Independent Clinical Senate review of Clinical Governance and Risk Management of the Ophthalmology department was commissioned. The Senate panel acknowledged that this review was completed during COVID-19 recovery and this required implementing a different method...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Hertfordshire and Essex Vascular review (2014)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate was approached by the East of England specialised services team to provide independent clinical advice on the proposed options developed for the reconfiguration of specialised vascular services in Hertfordshire and Essex.
East Midlands Clinical Senate Lincolnshire Adult Vascular Surgery review (2014)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate review of the Lincolnshire Adult Vascular Surgery Service was commissioned by the NHS England Lincolnshire and Leicestershire area team to provide an independent clinical review of the options proposed by the East Midlands...
East Midlands Clinical Senate North Derbyshire Transformation Programme (2015)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate was approached by North Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group to provide independent clinical advice on the North Derbyshire transformation programme as part of the NHS England assurance...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Resetting Health Care in Corby (2017)
The Clinical Senate was commissioned by Corby CCG, a constituent member of the Northamptonshire STP, to review Corby’s New Primary Care Clinical Model.
East Midlands Clinical Senate Resetting Intermediate Care Services in Northamptonshire (2018)
The Clinical Senate was commissioned by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of the Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership. The Clinical Senate was commissioned to provide a strategic sense check of Northamptonshire’s emerging new pathway...
East Midlands Clinical Senate NHS Nene and NHS Corby Clinical Commissioning Groups – Residential Short Break Service (2018)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate was commissioned by Nene and Corby CCGs. A new model of care has been developed to meet the health needs of disabled children who access residential short break services within Northamptonshire.
East Midlands Clinical Senate Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland STP – Review of Community Services (January 2018)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate was commissioned earlier in the year to undertake a further two clinical reviews, specifically looking at Maternity Services and Community Services: Community Services The aim of the review was to test if there is a clear clinical...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland STP – Review of Maternity Services (January 2018)
The East Midlands Clinical Senate was commissioned earlier in the year to undertake a further two clinical reviews, specifically looking at Maternity Services and Community Services: Maternity Services The aim of the clinical review was to test if there is a clear...