1.253 Consultees proposed several further alternative suggestions or mitigations, including:
- expanding community-based services, mobile clinics and GP-based procedures.
- developing week-long, multi-specialty clinics at each hospital.
- enhancing digital infrastructure and virtual care capacity.
- introducing direct inter-hospital transport links or patient transport services.
- exploring cross-border pathways into England where transport links are stronger.
- creating community-level ICCs.
- aligning service change with capital investment and workforce incentives.
- reviewing and reducing the management structure, enabling more funding for the direct provision of care.
- maximising patient choice and flexibility, for example by allowing those who are willing to travel further afield to do so.