What We Do
The East of England Clinical Senate provides free, high quality independent and impartial advice to health and social care commissioners to enable them to make the best decisions about healthcare for the populations they represent.
Clinical Senates operate as impartial, advisory arms-length bodies aligned to NHS England Regional Medical Directors and hosted by NHS England at regional level.
How we develop the advice
In response to your request for advice we bring together clinical experts and patient and public partners into a bespoke working group that will provide evidence-based advice which is always given in the best interests of patients. Working with you, our experts provide advice in an open and transparent way, independent of organisations or professional interests. Where evidence is limited, we seek to build and reflect clinical consensus.
When you can ask for our advice
You can request advice or support from the Clinical Senate at any point in the formulation and development of your proposals from early ideas, to building the case for change to the formal assurance process. You can request our advice as many times as you wish during the development of your proposals.
The benefits to you
Working with the Clinical Senate ensures that you have strong clinically evidence-based proposals for service change, focussed on improving quality, with all the key risks identified.
- we provide a level of clinical scrutiny and transparency to the process, sense checking your thinking and challenging assumptions, at no cost to yourselves
- we provide a clear senior clinical appreciation of your options without fear of partisan bias
- we provide additional and important assurance to your stakeholders in readiness for consultation
- we are aware of the wider strategic context and ensure that your plans align with this
- we help to provide clinical consensus where this is lacking
Our Position Statement and Senate CV provide a concise overview of the Clinical Senate. You are welcome to download these documents for reference or share them with your colleagues.
