More patients across South Tyneside and Sunderland are now getting access to high quality stroke care and life saving treatment thanks to major changes made as part of Phase One of the Path to Excellence programme.Latest data from the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP)* shows the quality of stroke services has risen significantly over the past two years with … [Read more...] about Vital changes to stroke services saving lives across South Tyneside and Sunderland
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Public invited to provide ideas or evidence to the NHS Path to Excellence programme
A second public hearing listening panel allowing interested parties to provide evidence or ideas on solving the challenges facing local NHS hospital services across South Tyneside and Sunderland, is to take place in June.NHS partner organisations published an updated Draft Case for Change on Phase Two of the Path to Excellence in February 2019, which builds upon the Draft … [Read more...] about Public invited to provide ideas or evidence to the NHS Path to Excellence programme
Seeking community representatives to evaluate the working ideas
Register to take part in evaluating the working list of ideas for the Path to ExcellenceAs the updated case for change sets out, we are sharing the working list of ideas and the next step in the process is to do further work in order to get to a shorter list of ideas for a formal public consultation later in the year.We will do that by applying a set of desirable evaluation … [Read more...] about Seeking community representatives to evaluate the working ideas
South Tyneside and Sunderland hospitals share future ambitions for clinical excellence and outstanding services
Hospital teams in South Tyneside and Sunderland have shared their ambitions to create outstanding future services which offer the very highest quality of safe patient care and clinical excellence.Following several months of work led by local doctors, nurses and therapy staff from both hospitals as part of Phase Two of the Path to Excellence programme, an ‘Updated Draft Case … [Read more...] about South Tyneside and Sunderland hospitals share future ambitions for clinical excellence and outstanding services
Update on Path to Excellence – CCG court case judgment handed down
Following the judgment handed down at the High Court of Justice, Leeds, by His Honour Judge Raeside QC on Friday 21 December, which has determined that the two Clinical Commissioning Groups (Sunderland and South Tyneside CCGs) involved in The Path to Excellence hospital transformation programme can implement changes based on decisions made around the future … [Read more...] about Update on Path to Excellence – CCG court case judgment handed down