The primary concern of the ODN board is to facilitate, through ODN activity, high quality individualised care for patients requiring these services. It will identify and monitor strategic aims, align service development to national and local priorities and ensure identification of future needs to maintain and improve patient access and equity of service delivery to the required standards.
The ODN board will formally review NHS business cases for expansion (or contraction) of these specialty areas of care to ensure effective and efficient use of resources and to minimise loss of specialty capacity. The ODN board will not be responsible for funding of these services but may recommend transfer of funds from one provider to another to ensure continued capacity across Cheshire & Mersey.
The ODN board will receive formal reports from each ODN regarding progress of work plans and identification of network risks. It will receive benchmark reports relevant to each specialty and make recommendations for remedial action to alleviate quality or capacity risks as required. Exception reports may be included as needed.
Cheshire & Mersey (& the Isle of Man) Major Trauma & Adult Critical Care Networks
Who are we?
A small team of senior NHS staff who provide specialist clinical expertise, advice and guidance to providers and commissioners regarding the major trauma and adult critical care pathways.
What do we do?
We are a co-ordinator and facilitator for all stakeholders to achieve a collaborative approach to safe, equitable and effective service delivery. We work across organisational and professional boundaries to improve the patient pathway reduce variation and define best practice. We consider implications to patients and staff of changes to care delivery and redesign and are a positive influence to those driven by current research and best practice. We provide quality assurance through:
Nationally both networks have a high profile and are seen as exemplars of this network model. A number of team members have held or currently hold a variety of national roles and continue to influence national developments, standards and processes.
What have we achieved?
CMCCN Key Achievements - examples
Table 1: Network Specification compliance year on year
2008 |
all Trusts compliant with 3 sub-sections of the specification |
2010 |
all Trusts compliant with 23 sub-sections of the specification |
2011 |
all Trusts compliant with 34 sub-sections of the specification |
2012/13 |
all Trusts compliant with 64 sub-sections of the specification |
2015 |
all Trusts compliant with 41 sub-sections of the specification |
2016/17 |
all Trusts compliant with 100 sub-sections of the specification |
CMMTN Key Achievements - examples
What are our current objectives?
1: Improving patient centred pathways
2: Enhancing patient safety
3: Promoting equitable access
4: Developing a sustainable workforce
5: Supporting the response to network-wide events
6. Advice to acute sustainability programme
7. Setting and maintaining standards for MT & CC specialist pathways
Contact us
If you would like further information, have any queries about our work or would like to get involved please visit our websites (www.cmccn.nhs.uk and www.cmmtn.nhs.uk), contact the network office (tel: 0151 5563260) or contact one of the team:
Network team members:
CMCCN Interim Director Julie Peacock julie.peacock8@nhs.net
CMMTN Networks Administrator Nicola Ludlam Nicola.ludlam@nhs.net
CMCCN Medical Lead Dr Jonathan Walker jonathanwalker@nhs.net
Quality Improvement Lead Nurse Karen Wilson Karen.Wilson93@nhs.net
Clinical Information Lead Joanne Fynn j.fynn@nhs.net
CMMTN Medical Lead Dr John Matthews john.matthews@sthk.nhs.uk
Quality Improvement Lead - currently vacant
Quality measures aim to find the most appropriate and deliverable measures that can be used nationally to help organisations improve the quality of care in their services.
This section contains details of existing training opportunities available to staff groups within the trauma pathway.
Patients who have suffered a severe injury often need complex reconstruction surgery and care from many professionals such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists...
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