Visit our website (free to join) www.noeccn.org.uk NoECCN December 2018 No: 1 Dear Colleagues Welcome to our first NoECCN newsletter, for all staff working in critical care and outreach services. The aim of the newsletter is to share information about what is happening across the different services within Network and also to provide you with news on national and regional issues in Critical Care. We are very happy to publish information about best practice or other interesting developments that are happening within your unit / teams. Please get in touch if you have anything you would like us to include in future issues. So, for our first issue we thought we would tell you about us. For those of you not familiar with the NoECCN, we were established in July 2009 as a result of the merger of two previously successful and well established clinical networks; North East & Cumbria and Tees Valley & South Durham. Paediatric Critical Care was incorporated in July 2012. NoECCN is now an established high performing Operational Delivery Network (ODN). So what is an Operational Delivery Network (ODN)? ODNs are NHS England sponsored, regionally funded advisory bodies, focussed on coordinating patient pathways between providers over a wide area, to ensure equity of access to specialist resources and expertise. Provider clinicians dominate their membership, working closely with patients and other key stakeholders. NoECCN facilitates critical care service delivery across the Cumbria and North East (CNE) region, promoting collaborative working to achieve high quality critical care services. This is accomplished through the commitment of the clinical and management teams from all the CNE constituent critical care services. There is a small Network core team employed full-time to enable and guide this work. Mr Alan Foster MBE, Lead for the CNE Integrated Care System (ICS) provides Chairmanship and Northumbria Healthcare hosts the Network. There is importantly funded sessional commitment from three Medical Leads; two from Adult Critical Care representing the North East and Cumbria and Tees Valley and South Durham Localities and a third representing Paediatric Critical Care, providing clinical guidance and expertise. The Paediatric arm of the ODN also includes NECTAR (North East Children’s Transport and Retrieval) service which is hosted at Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT. NECTAR ensures that critically ill children (from birth to 18 years of age) are transported rapidly by an expert team to the appropriate Paediatric Critical Care environment. The Lead Nurse for NECTAR also works one day a week for the Network.
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Visit our website (free to join) www.noeccn.org.uk NoECCN December 2018 No: 1
Dear Colleagues
Welcome to our first NoECCN newsletter, for all staff working in critical care and outreach services.
The aim of the newsletter is to share information about what is happening across the different services
within Network and also to provide you with news on national and regional issues in Critical Care. We
are very happy to publish information about best practice or other interesting developments that are
happening within your unit / teams. Please get in touch if you have anything you would like us to include
in future issues.
So, for our first issue we thought we would tell you about us. For those of you not familiar with the
NoECCN, we were established in July 2009 as a result of the merger of two previously successful and
well established clinical networks; North East & Cumbria and Tees Valley & South Durham. Paediatric
Critical Care was incorporated in July 2012. NoECCN is now an established high performing Operational
Delivery Network (ODN).
So what is an Operational Delivery Network (ODN)? ODNs are NHS England sponsored, regionally
funded advisory bodies, focussed on coordinating patient pathways between providers over a wide
area, to ensure equity of access to specialist resources and expertise. Provider clinicians dominate their
membership, working closely with patients and other key stakeholders. NoECCN facilitates critical care
service delivery across the Cumbria and North East (CNE) region, promoting collaborative working to
achieve high quality critical care services. This is accomplished through the commitment of the clinical
and management teams from all the CNE constituent critical care services. There is a small Network core
team employed full-time to enable and guide this work. Mr Alan Foster MBE, Lead for the CNE
Integrated Care System (ICS) provides Chairmanship and Northumbria Healthcare hosts the Network.
There is importantly funded sessional commitment from three Medical Leads; two from Adult Critical
Care representing the North East and Cumbria and Tees Valley and South Durham Localities and a third
representing Paediatric Critical Care, providing clinical guidance and expertise.
The Paediatric arm of the ODN also includes NECTAR (North East Children’s Transport and Retrieval)
service which is hosted at Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT. NECTAR ensures that critically ill children (from
birth to 18 years of age) are transported rapidly by an expert team to the appropriate Paediatric Critical
Care environment. The Lead Nurse for NECTAR also works one day a week for the Network.
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Alan Foster MBE Lesley Durham Julie Platten
Chair. Lead of Integrated Care System (ICS)
Director and Lead Nurse
(NE & C Locality)
Manager & Lead Nurse
Adult (TV & SD Locality)
David Cressey Isabel Gonzalez Susan Jackson
Medical Lead Adult
(NE & C Locality)
Medical Lead
Adult (TV & SD Locality)
Medical Lead (Paediatrics)
Lynda Pittilla Sarah Gray Jan Malone
Lead Nurse (Paediatrics)
Administrator (TV & SD Locality)
Administrator (NE & C Locality)
The Network is made up of 10 Acute Foundation Trusts, including NEAS; 13 Hospitals and 17 adult
critical care units which include specialised units for neuro-trauma and cardiothoracic along with three
paediatric critical care units.
Cumberland Infirmary West Cumberland Hospital Freeman Hospital Wards 21 (Cardio), 37 & Paediatric (Cardio) Royal Victoria Infirmary Wards 18 (Neuro), 38 & Paediatric (GNCH) Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital South Tyneside District Hospital Sunderland Royal Hospital Queen Elizabeth Hospital University Hospital North Durham Darlington Memorial Hospital University of North Tees James Cook University Hospital GICU, Cardio & Paediatric Northallerton Friarage Hospital
Adult critical care beds = 259 (50:50) L2 & 3 Paediatric critical care beds = 29
Royal Victoria Infirmary and James Cook University Hospital are Major Trauma Centres.
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The Adult Critical Care Service specification (D05) states that “all units should be engaged with their local Adult Critical Care ODN”.
To enable engagement the Network has a number of clinical forums and working groups and all units are invited
to have representation at each of these meetings.
Details can be found on the website www.noeccn.org.uk
Provides overall strategic direction for the development of Adult and Paediatric Critical Care services across the Network in line with current
National guidance.
Executive members who have authority to make decisions for on behalf of their organisation.
The Networks forum for senior Nurses, Doctors and AHPs. Agrees guidance, working practices and projects across the Network. Promotes and shares best practice
Clinical Leads, Consultants, Lead Nurses, Matrons,
AHPs, Pharmacists, Trainees, Managers
Development and implementation of a rehabilitation pathway. Shares best practice. Development of patient
Sarah Gray Network Administrator North of England Critical Care Network Adult & Paediatric ODN Hosted: University Hospital of North Tees 2nd Floor, Everley House Hardwick Road, Stockton, TS19 8PE Tel: 01642 624328 Mobile: 07765253098
Jan Malone Network Administrator North of England Critical Care Network Adult & Paediatric ODN Hosted: Emergency Care Centre Room G318 North Tyneside General Hospital Rake Lane, North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE29 8NH Tel: 0191 2934189 Mobile: 07827978559