Excellence for all in our care Long-Term Conditions SLWG Maternity, Early Years, Children & Young People SLWG Work is progressing to improve NHS Lanarkshire services through the healthcare strategy Achieving Excellence.
Over the next six months, members of the corporate management team will be visiting sites across NHS Lanarkshire talking to staff about the developments in Achieving Excellence in shifting the balance away from treatment in hospitals. The implementation of Achieving Excellence is being taken forward by six short-life working groups (SLWGs).
In the last edition of Pulse, we looked at the first three work streams (acute planned care, community capacity building and mental health and learning disabilities). The remaining three groups and their key areas of work are set out below.

Long term conditions

Lead: Dr Iain Wallace

Priorities:
• Developing a generic framework for managing long-term conditions and multi-morbidity including mapping of individual components and associated workforce and training need
• Establishing a long term conditions hub.

Maternity, early years, children and young people SLWG

Leads: Irene Barkby
Janice Hewitt, Chief Accountable Officer, Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire.

Priorities:
• Ensuring the neonatal unit accommodation is enhanced
• Develop a new service model for paediatric emergency care
• Care and services to be delivered in the right place ensuing accessibility and effectiveness
• Workforce sustainability plans developed and workforce aligned to ensure resilience and sustainability of services
• Data requirements to be identified to support multi-agency service planning
• Effective communication and data sharing across the service and utilisation of data to inform areas for integrated working, improvement and change.

Frailty SLWG

Leads: Graham Ellis and Chris Mackintosh
Priorities:

• Define frailty, which is currently not consistently described and quantify it where no formal coding or count exists
• Reach a clear consensus and shared ambition for services for adults with frailty
• Reach an understanding of the population and the implications of demographic change and defining models of care
• Map the existing evidence base to services to define ideal service provision across the life-course of an adult with frailty
• Work with localities and team to test new models of care, team working or systems and training and sharing
• Identify areas of skills training and educational need to be addressed to up skill understanding of frailty
• Ensure best care is adopted and embedded in clinical care in acute and community