The priorities for all of the clinical working groups within the Operational Delivery Network are ultimately agreed by our group members. The priorities include ensuring that regional practice aligns to national standards, identifying and attempting to address regional variation in practice, and collaboration to ensure continuous service development at both a local and regional level. Over-arching priorities are set annually and are reviewed regularly at group meetings.
Identified priorities for the Optimising MRI Pathways for Children Working Group in 2025 / 2026 are to:
- Review and collate data submitted from regional providers taking part in the Paediatric MRI Patient Audit and identify possible areas for pathway development based on the findings.
- Continue to work with data colleagues to develop a dashboard which shows the number of paediatric MRI scans carried out awake vs under general anaesthetic within South West providers and track this data over time to monitor progress and pathway development across the region.
- Continue to review regional MRI data and escalate challenges with data access to relevant teams.
- Continue to work with Health Play Specialists and liaise with Starlight regarding the upcoming national guidance and stands for play teams.
- Review responses to the Paediatric MRI Sedation Survey carried out in November / December 2024 and consider options for a sedation pathway which could be used support the Best Practice Recommendations.
