National Specialist Service Network Specification for critical care
The Cheshire and Mersey Adult Critical Care Network delivers a work programme determined by a national specification and in accordance with local, regional, and national priorities.
Through clinically lead collaboration, support the coordination of care pathways between regional providers to ensure consistent, equitable access to specialist resources and expertise within Adult Critical Care services and across the Major Trauma pathway.
Provision of impartial clinical advice and expertise to NHS England and Integrated Care System partners, including providers, to develop equitable, high standard services for patients and improve access and care outcomes.
Facilitate comparative benchmarking, evaluation, audit, and service review to highlight any areas of unwarranted variance in quality-of-service provision, promoting consistency and standardisation of clinical service provision and adoption of best practice across all providers.
Engaging with all relevant stakeholders to optimise patient outcomes and family experience through the efficient and effective use of collective resources available across the commissioned pathway.
National service specifications have been developed for all SSCN’s which outline the deliverables expected of each SSCN, defined within seven core areas of function as summarised in the document below: