Decision details

Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge have been selected as an urgent and emergency care vanguard site.  Vanguard sites are areas which will look at new approaches to improve the coordination of services and reduce pressure on A&E departments. 

The Board will be provided with information on the vanguard programme as well as an update on the development of the Barking Havering and Redbridge (BHR) vanguard site.

The Board received the report and noted:

(i)  That the System Resilience Group had been successful in its application to become a national urgent and emergency care (UEC) Vanguard, which was the first in London; and

(ii)  That Vanguard status would provide a platform from which to implement the findings of the recent BHR urgent care conference and would also provide an opportunity to look at the streamlining and simplification of the urgent care system and access for patients.