Issue - meetings

To receive a presentation by Paul Devlin Deputy, Director of Nursing and Quality

Fiona Walton, Deputy Director of Operations East Cheshire Trust and Adele Gatley, General Manager for Planned Care attended Committee (virtually) and provided a presentation on the Waiting List at East Cheshire NHS Trust.

The Committee noted that:

Elective recovery targets:   

• No patients waiting more than 104 weeks for elective treatment – this target was achieved in June 2021.
• Next target was to ensure that no patients were waiting more than 78 weeks by March 2023.

There were three key risk areas:

• Gastroenterology – currently at 28 potential breaches reduced from 174 from 1 August.
• General surgery – currently at 13 breaches reduced from 74 from August.
• Orthopaedics – currently at 37 breaches reduced from 309.

Productivity was being continually reviewed to maintain health services. Members received an overview of the GIRFT national programme (getting it right first time) and the Patient Initiated Follow Up pathway (PIFU). Recent data highlighted that:

• East Cheshire Trust had the third highest rate of theatre utilisation within the Northwest region at 83%.
• A review by the Cheshire and Merseyside Elective Productivity team also showed that the Trust had the third highest undertaking day case rate (86%) in the ICS which indicated a highly productive surgical service.
• Cheshire and Merseyside data showed that the Trust had the third highest rate of patients referred to PIFU.
• Outpatient data demonstrated that at 5%, the Trust had the second lowest ‘did not attend’ rate.

RESOLVED:

a) That the presentation from East Cheshire Trust be received and noted.

b) Presentation slides to be circulated to all Committee Members.