Programmes and Teams
The Centre for Sustainable Delivery consists of a number of national programmes and teams:
Modernising Patient Pathways (MPP)
The Modernising Patient Pathways team support front line clinical teams to develop sustainable improvements in service delivery, primarily in planned care. The team redesign models of care, share best practice, and work to balance capacity with demand for services.
National Elective Coordination Unit (NECU)
The National Elective Coordination Unit (NECU) provides a centralised and coordinated resource that works with Boards to match service demand to capacity, and maximise capacity utilisation.
National Unscheduled Care Improvement Programme
The National Unscheduled Care Improvement team works with NHS Boards across Scotland to understand their systems through identifying areas of unwarranted variation, triangulating operational, strategic and clinical leaders around the most productive opportunities in order to improve the timeliness, quality and safety of care. This includes defining and creating clinical consensus around optimal models and best practice, facilitating learning and sharing while Boards adopt national tools and guidance to support the delivery of their improvement aims and objectives.
Cancer Improvement and Earlier Diagnosis Programme
The Cancer Team drives NHS Scotland’s ambition to diagnose Cancer earlier and faster, with a particular focus on later stage disease. This includes work to enhance diagnostics, improve public education, and invest in innovation and to support primary care.
National Endoscopy Programme
The National Endoscopy Programme helps support the delivery of the National Endoscopy and Urology Recovery and Renewal Plan. They are working with Boards to develop a new national sustainable plan for Endoscopy.
Innovation Programme
The Accelerated National Innovation Adoption (ANIA) Pathway facilitates the rapid identification and assessment of new technologies for potential national adoption and lead the accelerated implementation of approved technologies across NHS Scotland.
National Green Theatres Programme
The Green Theatres Programme helps embed environmental sustainability across NHS Scotland. They deliver clinically-led quality improvements to support a healthier, more sustainable future and support the Scottish Government’s net zero ambitions.
Planned Care Programme
The Planned Care Programme support the delivery of planned care, by facilitating initiatives designed to improve demand and capacity, promote greater elective activity and reduce waiting times.
National Clinical Directors
Our Clinical Directors support all CfSD Programmes ensuring a clinical leadership approach is adopted for our national improvement work. By working in partnership with and alongside senior clinicians from all Boards, this ensures that clinical staff are fully involved in the design, delivery, and evaluation of our transformation and improvement programmes.
Strategic Planning and Programme Management Office
The SP&PMO team within CfSD provide internal support to the other CfSD programme teams in relation to programme management governance and standardisation of programme/project management best practice to facilitate teams to achieve their strategic priorities. The team are responsible for strategic planning, internal and external portfolio reporting and ensuring both robust internal governance and quality assurance controls are in place. In working with CfSD National Programmes the team support the realisation of
benefits in evidencing and demonstrating the value and impact being achieved.