Update on Phase Two of Path to Excellence programme – January 2024Phase Two of the Path to Excellence programme will no longer be progressed as it currently stands.The news comes over two years on since the programme last published an update on its working ideas for the future of surgical services. Since then, a number of things have influenced and superseded plans. … [Read more...] about Path to Excellence January 2024 update
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Invitation to voluntary and community travel and transport providers
A major NHS change programme to create outstanding future hospital services as part of the ‘Path to Excellence’ clinical transformation programme is asking local community and voluntary organisations with experience of community transport to get involved.In autumn 2021, healthcare leaders published a further updated draft case for change (September 2021) which builds on … [Read more...] about Invitation to voluntary and community travel and transport providers
Invitation to community and voluntary sector to support engagement for the Path to Excellence programme
A major NHS change programme to create outstanding future hospital services as part of the ‘Path to Excellence’ clinical transformation programme is asking local community and voluntary organisations to help ensure their service users’ views are heard. Earlier in September, healthcare leaders published a further updated draft case for … [Read more...] about Invitation to community and voluntary sector to support engagement for the Path to Excellence programme
Healthcare leaders update on plans to improve surgical services across South Tyneside and Sunderland
Healthcare leaders in South Tyneside and Sunderland are moving forward on work to create outstanding future hospital services as part of the ‘Path to Excellence’ clinical transformation programme. In March 2020, Phase Two of ‘Path to Excellence’ was officially paused to allow frontline NHS staff to focus on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In February … [Read more...] about Healthcare leaders update on plans to improve surgical services across South Tyneside and Sunderland
Evaluating the Path to Excellence ‘working ideas’
We continue to refine ‘working ideas’ for the transformation of planned and emergency surgery across South Tyneside and Sunderland.This includes assessing each of the ideas against evaluation criteria that have been developed through staff, patient and stakeholder involvement that has taken place over the last four years.The evaluation criteria are those elements of the … [Read more...] about Evaluating the Path to Excellence ‘working ideas’