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To establish NoECCN as a fully functioning and effective ODN To ensure equity of access and timely admission and discharge to and from critical care for all appropriate patients Ensure effective clinical flows through the provider system through clinical collaboration for networked provision of services Engender a whole system collaborative provision approach to ensuring the delivery of safe effective services across the patient pathway, adding value for all its stakeholders Facilitate cross-organisational multi-professional clinical engagement to improve pathways of care Enable the development of consistent provider guidance and improved service standards, ensuring a consistent patient and family experience To focus on quality and effectiveness through facilitation of comparative benchmarking and auditing of services, sharing of information, data and ideas with implementation of required service improvements Fulfil a key role in assuring providers and commissioners of all aspects of quality as well as coordinating provider resources to secure the best outcomes for patients across the network Support capacity planning and activity monitoring with collaborative forecasting of demand, and matching of demand and supply. To support Provider Trusts‘ in the achievement and delivery of the adult and paediatric service specification (NHS England), and the contained quality standards relating to the NHS Outcomes Framework Strategic resilience and capacity management - provision and assurance of preparedness, and delivery of a coordinated regional response to unprecedented pressures on critical care, via the North East Adult and Paediatric Critical Care Escalation Plans and Ethical Framework To facilitate collaborative working, bringing together providers and commissioners in the design and delivery of high quality services and patient outcomes To ensure that the work of NoECCN dovetails into and underpins the work programmes of other Strategic Clinical and Operational delivery Networks To demonstrate and encourage openness and transparency