Our team provides a high level of customer service and has delivered quality, end-to-end products within tight timescales. The quality of our service speaks for itself, with many returning customers and we work with a wide range of others from across the healthcare system – Primary Care, ICBs, Provider Collaborative and NHSE.
Our elective service is made up of:
- Individual Funding Request Service (IFR)
- Value Based Commissioning Programme (VBR)
- National Elective Restoration programme – Waiting Well (WW)
Our offer
Our team works in collaboration with internal and external stakeholder’s using a flexible approach to deliver individual contractual needs to achieve a positive outcome.
We are a dynamic and diverse team with a range of skills to meet the providers requirements in successful delivery of collaborative work portfolio projects to suit the needs of the provider.
Individual Funding Request Service (IFR) / Value Based Commissioning Programme (VBR)
Our IFR team manages the Individual Funding Requests made for procedures of limited clinical value and cover the North East and North Cumbria, as well as North Yorkshire and Humber.
National Elective Restoration programme – Waiting Well
Our Elective Recovery team plays a vital role in supporting the delivery plan for tackling the substantial waiting list, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We support ambitious plans to bring down long waits for elective backlog by supporting specific programmes, nationally, regionally and at place.
Programmes include the Elective Recovery Programme, My Planned Care and Getting Set for Surgery (Waiting Well) Programme.
Contact the team
Claire Wong
Elective Services Lead
claire.wong1@nhs.net
Case studies
Data Quality programme
The challenge The Data Quality (DQ) programme started in the summer of 2021 and NECS was commissioned to support acute providers to improve the accuracy of their waiting list data. The programme specifically wanted to: Ensure system capacity was utilised only for...
National Elective Restoration team
The challenge The National Elective Restoration team within NECS plays a vital role in supporting the delivery plan for tackling the substantial backlog of NHS care, which sits at the highest number of people waiting to receive planned NHS care since records began in...