South West London CCG Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

Elective recovery clinical networks As we entered the recovery phase, we developed 15 elective recovery clinical networks, each led jointly by acute and primary care clinicians. These clinical networks were originally set up to support restarting elective surgical operations and treatments, enabling our hospitals to work together to manage those patients whose operations had been put on hold and most urgently needed care. As a CCG, we were able to support these new networks with experienced primary care clinicians and commissioning managers, ensuring a focus on the whole patient journey and coordinating patient care across different settings. The South West London eective recovery clinical networks are: • Ear, nose and throat • Trauma and orthopaedics and musculoskeletal • Gynaecology • Ophthalmology • General surgery • Urology • Dermatology • Cardiology • Rheumatology • Neurosciences • Neurology • Pain management • Stroke • Community neuro-rehabilitation • Respiratory Working together, the clinical networks have centralised some operations in certain hospitals, freeing up staff and resources at others to continue responding to Covid-19. Our networks look at other ways they can work together to improve care for patients by doing things such as sharing learning, standardising clinical approaches and using data in a more sophisticated way. The networks involve acute and primary care clinicians, community providers, medicines management professionals, mental health and nursing colleagues, and allied health professionals. Increasing planned surgery Our clinical networks helped develop a comprehensive system-wide plan for South West London and NHS hospitals to address the new challenges created for hospitals by Covid-19. We worked through the plans on how to do this safely and identified patient groups by specific health conditions and treatments who should be prioritised for treatment. All our hospitals were involved in this work to make sure that we used all our available resources and capacity in South West London fairly for everyone. Despite the added challenges the pandemic has brought, by November our four acute hospitals were able to carry out 90% of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 | 31