Wakefield CCG asked the Senate to inform the development of the options for the midwifery led unit at Pontefract Hospital as part of an overall strategy for Maternity Services across the Trust prior to any required public consultation. The Senate was asked to identify...
Northern England Clinical Senate/Review of Paediatric services in preparation of Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington/February 2015
The Clinical Senate was asked to comment (as part of the NHS England assurance process) on a change to the service model for the delivery of paediatric care at the new Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) ( opened in July 2015.)
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of Mental Health Recovery and Rehabilitation Proposals in Calderdale/2017
Calderdale CCG asked the Senate to provide an independent clinical view of their proposed model for mental health recovery and rehabilitation. The proposals include the closure of some community inpatient facilities and investment of that funding in a specialist...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Vale of York Review of Mental Health Services/January 2018
The Vale of York CCG has been working with their provider Tees Esk and Wear Valley Foundation trust (TEWV) to transform mental health services. All the mental health estate and facilities across the Vale of York have been reviewed and an approach taken to develop...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Leeds Urgent Care and Rapid Response Strategy/June 2018
A review of the draft strategy for urgent care and rapid response across the city of Leeds. The Senate was asked to provide informal advice on the developing strategy advising on the issues within the strategy that need to be addressed as the detail develops. The...
Northern England Clinical Senate/Liverpool Women’s Hospital Maternity Proposals/June 2017
Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group had produced a Pre-Consultation Business Case (PCBC) setting out the options appraisal process and the resultant short list of reconfiguration options for public consultation following their review of Services Provided by...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of Hull Integrated Care Centre/September 2015
Hull CCG developed a proposal for an integrated care centre in Hull, designed to enable rapid assessment and improved management of long term conditions in a community setting. The centre would be Hull's only purpose built rehabilitation/re-ablement facility. This was...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of Goole Hospital/Oct 2014
Consideration of options to ensure future sustainability of Goole Hospital. Commissioners developed options to maximise capacity and resources including developing more integrated services on site through a Health Campus model. The original proposal was withdrawn and...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/01 Review of Harrogate and Rural District Mental Health Services/December 2018
Harrogate and Rural District Clinical Commissioning Group (HaRD CCG) developed proposals to reconfigure their mental health service for working age adults and older people in the Harrogate and Rural District area. The Senate was asked to advise if the proposed model...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of Clinical Haematology services in Hull and North Lincolnshire/March 2019
The Senate was asked by Specialised Commissioning to review their proposals for the reconfiguration of clinical haematology services provided by Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust (HEYHT) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of Diabetic Model Across Bradford/March 2017
The Bradford Provider Alliance led a redesign of the integrated diabetes service to deliver an end to end diabetes pathway and patient journey from prevention through to acute intervention. The Senate was asked to review the proposal and advise whether it would...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/03 Review of an aortic dissection rota/June 2019
The Senate was asked by Specialised Commissioning to review their proposals for a Yorkshire and the Humber wide aortic dissection rota. This is a region wide rota, with a specialist surgeon on call, taking all patients with aortic dissection. The Senate was asked to...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/01 Review of an Ophthalmic Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service/November 2014
Clinical Review of a proposed community Clinical Assessment and Treatment ophthalmology service considering whether the scope of the service was clinically safe to be delivered in a community based, consultant led service
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Acute Services at the Friarage Hospital on behalf of Hambleton Richmond & Whitby CCG. (Part 2)/June 2019
The Senate was approached by HRW CCG to review whether the options developed for the Friarage hospital clinical model addressed the issues raised in the Case for Change and to identify the risks and opportunities the commissioners needed to consider as they developed...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Acute services at the Friarage Hospital on behalf of Hambleton Richmond and Whitby CCG. (Part 1)/February 2019
The Senate was approached by HRW CCG to review whether the options developed for the Friarage hospital clinical model addressed the issues raised in the Case for Change and to identify the risks and opportunities the commissioners needed to consider as they developed...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of acute services at East Cheshire NHS Trust on behalf of Eastern Cheshire CCG/ 2018
The Senate was approached by the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership (C&M HCP) to work with Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in reviewing the sustainability of acute services in East Cheshire NHS Trust. The Senate was asked to...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review of acute services at Scarborough General Hospital/February 2020
The Senate was asked to review the proposed reconfiguration of acute urology and paediatrics/obstetrics services and advise on any clinical concerns or adverse impacts relating to it. This is part of the wider acute services review looking to ensure sustainability and...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Acute services at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust /January 2019
The Senate was approached by the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership (C&M HCP) to work with Southport and Formby CCG in reviewing the sustainability of acute services in Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust. The Senate was asked to advise on the Case...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Multi Speciality Community Provider Service/September 2017
Scarborough and Ryedale CCG have identified the need to improve their populations access to community health and social care. The CCG has developed a model for an integrated prevention, community care and support service for adults. The Senate was asked to provide an...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Review on the Future of Castleberg Hospital/October 2017
The review focussed on the Castleberg Community Hospital, a 10 bed intermediate facility which had experienced temporary closures for patient safety reasons due structural problems with the building. It is sited in a rural community which holds it in high regard and...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Pancreatic Cancer Services/December 2016
Specialised Pancreatic Cancer services within Yorkshire and the Humber are delivered in 3 specialist centres, only one of which is compliant with the minimum population required. Specialised commissioners reviewed and evaluated the current model with the intention of...
Northern England Clinical Senate/Urgent and Emergency Paediatrics Services Path To Excellence (Phase 1)/April 2014
The Northern England Clinical Senate was asked to undertake a formal clinical review of the proposals for Urgent and Emergency Paediatrics services across South Tyneside District Hospital and Sunderland Royal Hospital as part of the Path To Excellence programme (Phase...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/The Working Together Programme – Out of Hours Emergency Care for Ophthalmology/January 2015
The aim of this programme was to deliver a safe and sustainable out of hours emergency service for Ophthalmology across seven trusts. The Senate was consulted for advice on the options developed. The Senate was asked to review the 5 options and identify areas of...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Northamptonshire ENT Services (December 2019)
Northampton General Hospital (NGH) and Kettering General Hospital (KGH) commissioned the East Midlands Clinical Senate to undertake a joint review of their ENT services. The review included an options appraisal of proposed future models to assist the trusts to...
NW Clinical Senate – Review of the Central Lancashire “Our Health Our Care” Acute Sustainability Workstream (2019)
GMLSC Clinical Senate was commissioned to review the proposed "Our Health Our Care" models of care for Central Lancashire. In particular to: Identify whether the proposed models for self-care, GP services and Locality Hubs are credible and robust; Examine the clinical...
Northern England Clinical Senate/North Tyneside CCG Urgent Care Review/June 2016
North Tyneside CCG were directed by NHS England to seek clinical support from the Northern Clinical Senate to develop their clinical model for Urgent Care following the formal NHSE Stage 2 Assurance Review of the CCGs initial proposals. This review found that...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Northampton General Hospital Breast Services (July 2019)
Northampton General Hospital commissioned the East Midlands Clinical Senate to undertake an independent clinical review of all aspects of the Breast pathway, symptomatic and screening: The patients' pathway from the two-week wait, screening invitation through to the...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Northampton General Hospital Cardiology Service (August 2019)
Northampton General Hospital commissioned the East Midlands Clinical Senate to undertake an independent clinical review addressing broad areas of concern around the cardiology service categorised as capacity and productivity, aspects of governance and oversight and...
East Midlands Clinical Senate NHS Derby and Derbyshire CCG – Urgent Treatment Centres Clinical Review (May 2019)
NHS Derby and Derbyshire CCG commissioned the East Midlands Clinical Senate to undertake an independent clinical review of their approach to Urgent Treatment Centre Designation and their framework for decision making to ensure their decisions assess health...
NW Clinical Senate – Mid-Mersey Oncology Services (2019)
A formal, independent clinical review, in line with the NHS England stage 2 assurance process, of the proposed plans for oncology services delivered to the populations of Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington CCGs (for the purposes of this review known as...
NW Clinical Senate – Morecambe Bay Maternity Review (2017)
Following the Kirkup Report and RCOG Report regarding maternity services delivered by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust, the provider and commissioner developed a preferred option for future services. The GMLSC Clinical Senate reviewed the proposal. It...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCGs – National Rehabilitation Centre (July 2019 & September 2020)
The clinical review team were asked to examine the clinical case for change underpinning the proposals for the National Rehabilitation Centre. The National Rehabilitation Centre includes a regional clinical facility and national research and education hubs in...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Meeting the Challenge – proposals to change hospital and community services/May 2014
Clinical Review of the Outline Business Case for Meeting the Challenge proposals in Mid Yorkshire. The alignment relates specifically to enabling the reduction in approximately 171 hospital beds over the next 3 years. Senate report provides advice regarding the case...
East Midlands Clinical Senate Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Community Health Services (January 2020)
West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) commissioned the East Midlands Clinical Senate to review the implementation of their Community Health Services model, which was launched on 1st December 2019. LLR was an accelerator site for the National Ageing...
Northern England Clinical Senate/Hartlepool Assisted Reproduction Unit/May 2016
Hartlepool and Stockton-On-Tees CCG asked the Clinical Senate to undertake an independent review of the reasons behind the announced closure of the Hartlepool Assisted Reproduction Unit (part of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust). The Unit was closed at...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Humber Acute Services Review on behalf of Humber Coast & Vale Health Partnership/November 2020
The Humber Acute Services Review (HASR) will determine the long-term future of acute hospital services at the five hospitals in the Hull and East Riding and Northern Lincolnshire area (Scunthorpe General Hospital (SGH), Grimsby's Diana Princess of Wales Hospital,...
Northern England Clinical Senate/ Model of care for Rothbury Community Hospital/2018
In 2018 Northumberland CCG consulted on the closure of a small number of community beds at Rothbury Community Hospital (part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT) following a period of under-utilisation and suspension of service. The CCG decided to formally close the beds...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Service Specifications: Integrated Sexual Health Services, Urgent Care and Integrated Community Health Services/April 2015
As part of a re-procurement of community services, draft service specifications were developed for integrated sexual health services, urgent care and integrated community health services. The Senate was asked to review the draft specifications and advise of any gaps...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Healthy Lives Healthy Futures Review/November 2014
Review of the options being considered for stroke within Northern Lincolnshire and Goole.
Northern England Clinical Senate/Greater Manchester: Healthier Together post-consultation review. (Part 3)/June 2015
This third review, jointly undertaken by the Clinical Senates from across the north of England, was requested by the Healthier Together programme to give further clinical advice on issues raised during consultation regarding the proposed new models of care in Greater...
NW Clinical Senate – Independent Clinical Review of Recommendations made by NCAT regarding Manchester’s Healthier Together Programme (2013)
Between September and December 2013, the National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT) carried out a formal review of the structural components of the Healthier Together Programme in Manchester. The programme was a large scale reconfiguration of acute and primary care....
Northern England Clinical Senate/Durham Dales Paramedic Skill-Mix Review/June 2015
The Senate was asked to provide an independent clinical evaluation on the impact of changes in skill mix of ambulance crews covering the rural Durham Dales answering the question 'For people in the Durham Dales area, is there any difference in terms of patient care...
NW Clinical Senate – Proposals to Redesign Adults and Older People’s Specialist Mental Health Services in Eastern Cheshire, South Cheshire and Vale Royal (2019)
An independent clinical review of the proposed plans for the future delivery of adult and older people's specialist mental health services to the population of Central and Eastern Cheshire.
East Midlands Clinical Senate Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Ear, Nose and Throat Service – Clinical Governance and Risk Management Review (October and November 2020)
An Independent Clinical Senate review of Clinical Governance and Risk Management in the Ear, Nose and throat (ENT) service of Kettering General Hospital was invited by the Trust following a Freedom To Speak Up concern raised by a staff member regarding these...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/ Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG Transforming Mental Health/April 2017
The Northern England Clinical Senate and the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Senate were asked to jointly review documentation prepared by Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG Transforming Mental Health Programme to support he NHS England service change assurance...
NW Clinical Senate – Follow-up Review for the Cumbria Success Regime: Proposed Clinical Models for Maternity and Paediatrics (2017)
Continued support to West North East Cumbria on reflection of the independent analysis of consultation for supporting decisions on service configuration decisions. Completed by GMLSC Clinical Senate on behalf of Northern England.
Northern England Clinical Senate/Deciding Together: Mental Health Inpatient and Older Peoples Services/March 2016
Newcastle-Gateshead CCG had developed a range of clinical scenarios for mental health service configuration as part of their Deciding Together programme. The CCG approached the Senate to ask for an independent review of these clinical scenarios to help provide...
Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Senate/Clinical review for Leeds CCG on Neonatal and Maternity Services
The proposal is for the centralisation of in-patient neonatal and maternity services from two hospital sites into a single unit creating an alongside midwifery-led unit as part of the proposals. The options that the CCG are planning to consult the public on are around...
NW Clinical Senate – Clinical Review of Greater Manchester Integrated Stroke Service (2014)
The GMLSC Clinical Senate reviewed Greater Manchester's plans for a centralised model of stroke care in which all patients with suspected stroke go to a designated centre for assessment and receipt of hyper acute and acute stroke care.
Northern England Clinical Senate/Clatterbridge Haemato-oncology services/November 2017
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Independent clinical advice on the options for an interim model for Haemato-Oncology services In July 2019 the Northern England Clinical Senate received a referral from the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) requesting independent clinical...