The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has set out its plans for a small number of national networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions.
Called strategic clinical networks these organisations will build on the success of network activity in the NHS which, over the last 10 years, has led to significant improvements in the delivery of patient care.
The conditions or patient groups chosen for the first strategic clinical networks are:
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease (including cardiac, stroke, diabetes and renal disease) Maternity and children's services
Mental health, dementia and neurological conditions
These networks will exist for up to five years and will be managed by 12 locally based support teams. These teams will build and oversee effective network arrangements for their area and help networks develop an annual programme of quality improvement in local services. The support teams, funded by the NHS CB, will be located in local area teams' offices.
Read full details of the new strategic clinical networks in the document called The Way Forward, along with answers to frequently asked questions. You can find these published documents on the NHS Commissioning Board Authority website.
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