The Northern England Clinical Senate were requested by Cumbria CCG to provide independent clinical assurance and advice to their Together for A Healthier Future programme.
Phase 1 of this work was to give assurance on the pathways for high risk cardiac cases including high risk cardiac cases including transfer for urgent or emergency percutaneous intervention (PCI), acute stroke, management of acute gastro intestinal bleeds and emergency high risk acute medicine providing external challenge and checks in the system to ensure that proposals that are developed are clinically robust.