Tackling variations in clinical care: Assessing the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme
Timmins, Nicholas
Tackling variations in clinical care: Assessing the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme - London Kings Fund 2017
E-books 32p.
<div class="field field-name-field-intro field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-full" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme aims to bring about higher-quality care in hospitals, at lower cost, by reducing unwanted variations in services and practices. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;">It uses national data to identify the variations and outcomes, shares that data with all those concerned with a service – not only clinicians, but also clinical and medical directors, managers and chief executives – and monitors the changes that are implemented. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;">The programme began with orthopaedics and is now being rolled out to 32 different surgical and medical specialisms across the English NHS. Through an informal assessment of the programme, this paper sets out what the programme is, why it is needed, what is different about it, what it has achieved, what challenges it faces and what potential it has. It also contains vignettes illustrating hospitals’ experiences of the programme.</span></div>
Tackling variations in clinical care: Assessing the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme - London Kings Fund 2017
E-books 32p.
<div class="field field-name-field-intro field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-full" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme aims to bring about higher-quality care in hospitals, at lower cost, by reducing unwanted variations in services and practices. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;">It uses national data to identify the variations and outcomes, shares that data with all those concerned with a service – not only clinicians, but also clinical and medical directors, managers and chief executives – and monitors the changes that are implemented. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;">The programme began with orthopaedics and is now being rolled out to 32 different surgical and medical specialisms across the English NHS. Through an informal assessment of the programme, this paper sets out what the programme is, why it is needed, what is different about it, what it has achieved, what challenges it faces and what potential it has. It also contains vignettes illustrating hospitals’ experiences of the programme.</span></div>