Provider Collaboration: Reducing elective waiting lists through provider collaboration
This webinar included presentations from the North East and North Cumbria Provider Collaborative (NENC) and the Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trusts Provider Collaborative (CMAST).
Chair: David Williams, head of policy and strategy at NHS Providers
Presentation one: The North East and North Cumbria Provider Collaborative
Julie Turner, director of elective care recovery and improvement, and Nicola Thackray, elective programme director for the collaborative, shared learning from their Elective Care and Recovery programme, including the benefits they've experienced by working together and the challenges they've faced, including what has helped them to overcome them.
Presentation two: The Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trusts Provider Collaborative
Linda Buckley, managing director, and Jenny Briggs, elective programme director for the collaborative, explored the impacts they've seen on waiting times, productivity and variation since the implementation of their Elective Recovery and Transformation programme, as well as how they've achieved these improvements and their key takeaways.