Acute Network – our impact
Read about our achievements on behalf of members across the acute sector.
We continue to support members to respond to the challenges facing the health and care system, and to advocate on your behalf for the changes you need. Here are just some of our key areas of impact so far this year through the Acute Network.
- Our work on the causes of increased waiting times in A&E and the benefit and net financial gain of increasing investment in out-of-hospital care, was cited in Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the NHS, leading to it becoming one of the government's three key shifts for reform.
- We partnered with CF to analyse the nature and extent of the elective backlog, showing that doing more activity without changing the way that we work will not solve the problem of ever-increasing demand. The report and our recommendations were publicly welcomed by health secretary Wes Streeting, influencing the government's two other shifts towards digitisation and prevention.
- Our Interface Improvement Programme, delivered with the Primary Care Network, has supported 11 teams to understand, develop, implement and sustain solutions to the challenges of working at the interface of primary and secondary care within their areas.
