The priorities for all the clinical working groups with the Surgery in Children Operational Delivery Network are ultimately agreed by the 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 but reviewed regularly at group meetings. The groups will annually review its progress against its agreed priorities and report back to the Surgery in Children Network Board.
Outcomes and reports from all of our projects can be accessed by group members through our NHS Futures page – please click here for access.
Priorities identified at the start of January 2025 include:
- Ongoing development of pathways for forearm and fracture management to consider increased manipulations in Emergency Department as per national recommendations
- Proceed with actions identified to reduce variation in practice in the delivery of botulinum toxin in patients with neuromuscular disorders
- Consider pathways for patients with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) and ensure support with national research opportunities
- Consider pathways for patients with Club foot and ensure support to national data collection proposal
- Support the delivery of the regional Best Practice Recommendations for Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis guidelines
- Consider pathways for patients transitioning from paediatric to adult services and opportunities to ensure smooth pathways are in place