Senate Recommendations
South West Clinical Senate. Considering weight loss and smoking cessation criteria to improve surgical outcomes (May 2017)
Deliberation and recommendations around the subject: How best can weight loss and smoking cessation be encouraged through criteria for fitness for surgery and what is the evidence base for improved…
Read MoreSouth West Clinical Senate. Emergency General Surgery – A review of Acute Trusts in the South West (Feb 2017)
Emergency General Surgery (EGS) represents the largest number of surgical admissions in UK hospitals and accounts for a high number of complications, resulting in long periods of care and a…
Read MoreSouth West Clinical Senate. Principles for Developing Community Reconfiguration Proposals (Nov 2016)
As Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are being developed across the 6 STP footprints in the South West, the Clinical Senate is increasingly being asked to provide independent clinical review…
Read MoreSouth West Clinical Senate. Supporting and Developing the South West STPs (Oct 2016)
Output from the South West Clinical Senate meeting on 19th May 2016 about supporting and developing the STP plans for the South West footprints. The question: “Will the 6 South…
Read MoreSouth West Clinical Senate. Mental Health Services Configuration (Nov 2015)
As seen through the experience of service users and their family/carers is the current provision of mental health services and their configuration appropriate? How and where should services best be…
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