All National Managed Clinical Networks (NMCN) are designated through National Commissioning by NHS National Services Scotland.
Who are we?
We help ensure patients across Scotland have the best possible access to high quality specialist care. We bring together a range of health and other professionals involved in providing care for patients with rare and/or complex conditions when the full range of skills required is not available within an NHS board or even within a region.
What do we do?
Operating on a national level, we work across professional and organisational boundaries to support Scottish Government policy aims of safe, effective healthcare which is designed around patients, carers and families.
We bring together everyone involved in providing specialist care for particular groups of patients with the most complex healthcare needs – health and other professionals, patients, carers, families and voluntary groups. Each network designs pathways of care that ensure patients and their families have equal access to the highest standards of care, regardless of where they live in Scotland and as close to the patient’s home as possible.
The pivotal elements of our work are communication, engagement and collaboration. We are a network of professionals and families that focuses on the mapping and augmentation of services for children and young people with exceptional healthcare needs across Scotland. To enable us to do this we collect, analyse and report on data which is used to measure and improve the quality and consistency of healthcare provision. We work with other agencies and organisations throughout Scotland in order to provide education events and programmes for both professionals, carers, children, young people and their families.
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