Integrated Urgent Care IUC Clinical Leads Group Terms of Reference TOR

Purpose

• To provide a discussion forum for difficult clinical leadership issues, including challenging clinical cases and learning events.
• To offer peer support as Lead Clinicians for the IUC service
• To enable shared learning, including sharing of publications and evidence relevant to urgent primary care
• To enable the Senior Leadership Team, SevernSide Quality Group and the BrisDoc Urgent Care Services Leadership and Operational Board (UCSLOB) to delegate actions with an exclusively clinical focus for action and feedback
• A decision-making group to sign off solely clinically based decisions (for example clinical policies / equipment decisions) which then will go Service Delivery and improvement Board (SDIP) if SevernSide specific, if it is a generic corporate document, this will go to Quality Board for complete sign off before publication.

Responsibilities

• The SevernSide Clinical Leads group will hold responsibility for developing and signing off the clinical content for pathways, policies and SOPs as required.

Co-owners Council Engagement

The SevernSide Clinical Leads group will maintain a clear channel of communication with the co-owners’ council, so that both parties are able to share information and consult one another as appropriate. This will ensure that the co-owners’ council remains part of this group’s consciousness when making key decisions.

Membership

The membership of the group will be comprised of;

• IUC Head of Nursing and AHPs
• IUC Lead Clinical Practitioners
• BrisDoc Clinical Pharmacist (by exception)
• IUC Lead GPs
• Clinical Guardians GPs to be included by exception according to agenda.
• SevernSide Deputy Medical Director – As required by request
• Medical Director – As required by request
• Director of Nursing, AHPs and Governance – As required by request

Meetings will be chaired on a rotating 3 monthly basis. A record of decisions/ actions will be maintained from each meeting will be kept by the Corporate Administrator.

In addition, members will be co-opted into the group if particular issues or projects arise that require expertise from individuals other than substantive members. This includes a representative of the co-owners’ council if required or is requested by the council.

Frequency

The SevernSide Leads will meet for 1.5 Hours every month.

Additional exceptional meetings can be called by the chair as required.

Quoracy

A minimum of 3 members, with at least a Lead Clinical Practitioner and Lead GP representative to be present for a decision to be made.

Reporting and Accountability

The Clinical Leads group is accountable to the Service Delivery and Improvement Board, and will ensure close links and communication with the Urgent Care Services LOB, Severnside Quality Group and Quality Board, and Medicines Management group as required. The leads group can feed into any of these groups/teams, and receive actions which have an exclusively clinical focus.

Review

The purpose value and outcomes of the TOR for the Urgent Care Clinical Leads group will be reviewed two yearly, with the opportunity to disband or further refine the way the group works.

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