Regional Service Reviews
Governance and region-wide service reviews
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This chapter makes a number of key strategic statements about the implementation of Healthy Ambitions and the ways in which we will approach, and make decisions about, the small number of issues (identified by clinicians) as needing to be determined at the regional level. These statements are in addition to the key principles which govern our approach to implementation and which are set out in the previous chapter.
We are committed to ensuring a sustainable future for each of our existing tertiary centres. Working in partnership with clinicians and local organisations we will work progressively to define clear quality standards and service models for the small number of services being reviewed at regional level e.g. vascular services.
These standards will be based on the best available clinical evidence and will be wholly directed at securing the best possible outcomes for patients across Y&H.
Services will only be commissioned from providers able to meet these quality standards.
Whilst these sorts of providers are likely to be specialist and therefore few in number, we will not be specifying the numbers of units who can deliver these key services such as hyper acute stroke care and major trauma.
The conduct of these regional reviews will be clear and transparent – following the arrangements set out in the governance chapter. It will be clear how anyone with an interest can feed into these reviews.
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