To ask the Secretary of State for Health what safeguards he has put in place to prevent the loss of expertise and knowledge of cancer services staff during the transition to strategy clinical networks.
The essence of clinical networks is the web of relationships between individual clinicians. Clinicians are mostly unaffected by the changes in NHS commissioning architecture and will provide a key point of continuity through the transition process.
All primary care trusts have developed comprehensive legacy documents and network activities are included in these. It will be the role of the lead managers for strategic clinical networks in each of the 12 network support teams to ensure that the transition is well managed at a local level. Good progress is being made with the establishment of these teams and the majority of the lead manager posts, as well as network manager, improvement manager and associated support posts, have been filled by existing network staff.
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