The network aims to bring together clinicians, managers, commissioners, children and their families to work together to support improvement in children’s surgical services across the East Midlands. ‘Surgery in children’ refers to all types of surgical procedure that might be performed on children including straight forward surgical interventions, routine operations and more complex, highly specialist procedures. The remit of the East Midlands Surgery in Children Operational Delivery Network is extremely broad. The core team works with all colleagues to agree priorities to focus on.