Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust’s CES Big Room leading the way nationally on Cauda Equina pathway

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ Cauda equina syndrome CES Big Room are currently leading nationally in co-designing a framework for clinical care structured pathway across their integrated care system with key stakeholders.

Cauda equina syndrome (CES), is a spinal condition which can lead to paralysis and incontinence, requiring timely diagnosis and management.

In April, the Trust’s Big Room were selected to present their work internationally in Glasgow at the prestigious BritSpine 2023. BritSpine is the leading multi-disciplinary scientific conference and exhibition, bringing together experts in spinal conditions, research and treatment from across the world to expand knowledge and promote networking.

The conference delivered a programme across a wide range of topics related to spinal care and research, with keynotes, debates, updates and paper sessions from both UK and International Faculty.

Jennifer Carroll, Continuous Improvement Clinical Fellow at Lancashire, gave a presentation on behalf of the wider CES Big Room team, and Manoj Khatri, Orthopaedics Consultant, said: “Jen did an excellent job, and really engaged with the audience.”

The Big Room demonstrates active patient involvement in continuous improvement. The aim is to improve the quality of care through standardisation of clinical assessment and electronic records. Minimise variation, prevent duplication, enhance communication, optimise time between key stages of the pathway and reduce out-of-hour diagnostic requests to enable timely clinical decision-making and management planning.

To find out more about the work of the team visit the case study.

• Jill Billington Advanced Specialist Practitioner in Spine
• Manoj Khatri Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon
• Poorna Veerappa Advanced Specialist Practitioner in Spine
• Jennifer Carroll Continuous Improvement Clinical Fellow.