In collaboration with burn care service leads, network specialist interest groups and other stakeholders in the burn care pathway, the aim of the burns clinical network is to:

• Ensure equitable access to high quality burns care for all burn injured patients
• Improve quality of care, outcomes and experience for burns patients in the Network catchment population
• Ensure efficient pathways of care which demonstrate value for money
• Respond to local or larger scale incidents where demand outstrips supply
• Support service sustainability and resilience

The main objectives of burn care networks are to:

• To achieve greater system resilience, including major incident planning
• To improve outcomes, quality of care and patient and family experience across the whole care pathway
• To ensure that as much care and treatment is provided as close as possible to home with effective clinical flows through the provider system
• To reduce variation by developing, agreeing and implementing standardised pathways of care across the network
• To promote greater collaboration within the network and sharing learning between networks
• To support greater equity of access and reduce health inequalities
• To support increasing productivity / efficiency of services

For further information about the South West Burns Clinical Network please visit the South West Burns Clinical Network website.