Yorkshire

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Yorkshire the Humber Strategic Clinical
NetworksMental Health, Dementia, Acute Chronic
Neurological Conditions

• David Black
• Medical Director
• South Yorkshire Bassetlaw Area Team (host)
• 17th September 2013

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Strategic Clinical Networks

• Clinical networks are an NHS success story.
  Combining the experience of clinicians, the input
  of patients and the organisational vision of NHS
  staff, they have supported and improved the way
  we deliver care to patients in distinct areas,
  delivering true integration across primary
  secondary and often tertiary care.

• Bruce Keogh, Medical Director and Jane Cummings ,
  Nursing Director

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What are Strategic Clinical Networks?

• SCNs operate as engines for change across complex
  systems of care, maintaining and or improving
  quality and outcomes. They bring primary,
  secondary and tertiary care clinicians together
  with partners from social care, the third sector
  and patients
• SCNs are nationally mandated, hosted by NHS
  England and will receive national commissioning
  funding for their core functions

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Why Mental Health, Dementia, Acute Chronic
Neurological Conditions?

• Stigma, low awareness and education in the
  general population
• Some symptoms are not visible.
• There are opportunities across the pathways in
  common
• prevention needs more focus
• early detection and earlier diagnosis are
  priorities to enable smooth routes to diagnosis
  and into services and support

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Why Mental Health, Dementia, Acute Chronic
Neurological Conditions (2) ?

• There are variations in care despite many
  National Frameworks/Strategies and Challenges
  over the last few years
• Services need to be joined up and responsive
  when there is an unexpected event or crisis
• Care needs to be co-ordinated across mental and
  physical health, and across teams/sectors,
  including social care and third sector
• Cancer, cardiac and stroke have had enormous
  national focus over the last 10 years..time to
  link overall mental health with physical health
• Many people are surprised at how much common
  ground there is between the conditions

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Common difficulties with developing and
implementing good practice

• Strategic Clinical Networks can help overcome
  some of these problems
• Supporting commissioners and providers for
  delivery of responsive, appropriate services that
  meet peoples needs.
• Engaging clinicians and working across
  organisational boundaries - Sharing what works
  well with other areas and teams in YH and nation
  wide
• Developing approaches to measuring outcomes.
• Helping regain a collective memory after large
  organisational change and transition.
• Using data to highlight variation, inequity and
  opportunities for improvement.
• Do once and share

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Contact Details

• Dr David Black
• Medical Director
• SYB Area Team
• David.Black4_at_nhs.net