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the quality of our services and patient and family sustainable model of care and improving clinical care,
experience of our services. Increasingly, Alder Hey is
seeking to build and strengthen partnership working
with clinicians and wider staff groups through Listening
into Action, Hackathons held by the Innovation team,
clinical leadership and development and improved
communications.
Alder Hey is committed to co-creating system-wide
collaboration and shared models of care with our
strategic partners. In order to achieve this, the Trust has
continued to work proactively with local regional and
national stakeholders. The focus during 2017/18 has
been to strengthen existing partnerships and develop
new ones to achieve the following aims:
1. Enhanced partnership working with trusts across
Cheshire and Merseyside in order to sustain and
improve the quality of care provided to children
and young people and their families. Alder Hey has
continued to be a key member of the North West
Congenital Heart Disease Partnership, working together
to provide a fully compliant, resilient and clinically safe
service model for adults and children across the North
West of England, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
The Partnership is now working together to deliver the
agreed plan and new model of care during 2018 and
beyond. In addition, partnership working with Liverpool
Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has resulted in an
approved business case during 2017/18 for delivery of
a two site single service model for neonates requiring
surgery and level 3 Critical Care. This joint model of
care will streamline patient transfers between hospitals
and improve quality of care, outcomes and patient
experience going forward. These new models are being
funded through historical funding patterns and/or new
business cases for new models of care agreed by
commissioners.
2. Joint working with Manchester Children’s
Hospital to continue to support and host clinical
networks working together to improve standards
and consistency of care and reduce unnecessary
variation. Alder Hey Executive Directors meet with
Manchester Children’s Hospital Executives and
jointly hold an annual Clinical Network Event to share
best practice and promote good governance. There
are four mandated clinical networks for paediatric
services: Neonatal, Trauma, Burns and Critical Care.
Alder Hey itself hosts the Neonatal Clinical Network,
Cardiac Network, Trauma Network and Neurosciences
Network.
3. As a member of Liverpool Delivery System
and in support of the Cheshire and Merseyside
Sustainability and Transformation Five Year Forward
View, Alder Hey is an active member of a number
of partnership groups concerned with building a
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access and affordability. These include:
• Urgent Care Delivery Board
• Acute Sustainability Board
• Women’s and Children’s Service Partnership
Vanguard
• Liverpool Integrated Care Provider Alliance
• Liverpool Children’s Transformation Board, which
from 2018 will report directly to Liverpool’s Health and
Well Being Board.
Alder Hey actively supports and participates in game-
changing research. In 2017 Alder Hey achieved the
largest number of all adult and children research trials
in England. Alder Hey works in partnership with the
Universities in Liverpool to both support and engage in
meaningful research that will help improve child health
outcomes in Liverpool. In 2018 there is a plan to create
new senior clinical academic posts with academic
partners, and to collaborate with the University of
Liverpool across all three Faculties in line with the
NIHR Futures of Health Report. Alder Hey will work
in partnership to ensure that significant infrastructure
awards are supported both deliver to plan and to grow.
International Child Health
Developments
Alder Hey has a long history of engagement with
International Child Health, encompassing a wide range
of activities by both individuals and departments.
Working internationally fully supports all aspects of
the Trust’s strategic plan, the Trust vision: “building
a healthier future for children and young people”; the
Trust aspiration: “to be World leading” and our goals
for: delivery of outstanding care, the best people
doing their best work, sustainability through external
partnerships and game-changing research and
innovation.
International collaboration is ongoing with Kanti
Hospital in Nepal, the University of Malawi College
of Medicine and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in
Blantyre, Malawi. The agreed schedule of work with the
Al Jalila Children’s Hospital in Dubai was completed
and provided opportunities for staff to experience
international collaborative working in Dubai which
secured additional income for Alder Hey.
The Trust continues to build its international reputation
and the international team has developed an expanded
network with international trade organisations including,
the Department of International Trade, Healthcare UK,
and Liverpool Vision. An indication of the organisation’s
reputational reach is the hosting of thirteen official
visits from international delegations including visitors
from Russia, China and the Middle East. The visits
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