Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)

🥳 👏 🤩 Congratulations to our director and co-founder Rachel Yates, who today receives an MBE for services to clinical quality improvement and patient safety. Rachel has been with the GIRFT programme since its inception, working with Prof Briggs to build it into the programme it is today. We’re so thrilled to see her dedication to NHS improvement recognised in today’s #NewYearHonours Read more on our website▶️ https://bit.ly/4gWK6kN

ICYMI – we’ve been sharing our 🎁 Gifts from GIRFT 🎁 all this week, flagging innovation and improvements from our GIRFT good practice collection to support YOU. This week’s stars for sharing best practice are: 🌟 South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust 🌟Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Trust 🌟University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust 🌟Lincolnshire ICB 🌟Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Find all their amazing good practice and many other case studies in our online collection: 🔗https://bit.ly/3AUdbe3

We’re excited to be collaborating on a £3.5m Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) & Department of Health and Social Care programme working with 17 ICBs with the biggest waiting lists for community MSK. The focus is on reducing waiting times for a community MSK appointment; to improve access to MSK treatment and support people back to work. Read more on our website: https://bit.ly/41BvlQ9 The GIRFT MSK Community Delivery Programme is part of the Government’s Plan for Change and is being delivered using the principles and methodology of GIRFT’s Further Faster 20 programme. It involves each ICB getting funding and support to develop more efficient ways of getting MSK patients treated, off waiting lists and back onto the path of employment. Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance Versus Arthritis MSK Partners Network The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK Royal College of General Practitioners Andrew Bennett Lesley Kay Luke Martin Graham Lomax

🥳 We’re thrilled to see not one, not two, but THREE GIRFT linked initiatives shortlisted for the 2025 #HSJPartnershipAwards Congratulations to everyone working on 1️⃣ SPaedIT: our Summary Paediatric Indicator Table, a data tool bringing together provider-level data summarising demand, capacity, flow and outcomes in a dashboard. 2️⃣ SEDIT: our Summary Emergency Department Indicator Table, our original data dashboard, offering an easy-to-use, online depository of emergency medicine data. 3️⃣ The Royal College of Physicians' GLASS (GIRFT Leadership Academy Stroke Specific) programme: a bespoke multi-professional stroke specific leadership development programme building leadership capacity within ISDNs. Want the details behind all those acronyms😜? More on our website: https://bit.ly/3ZFuqeF Darren Best Leilah Dare Simon Kenny David Hargroves

We are capable of delivering the extraordinary... I love the fact that we are able to solve problems and that we can, and do, create extraordinary things when we work together. Recently I explored the underground bunkers that lie along the Northern line and visited the one in Clapham. There were 8 built in total with an estimated cost in today's money of £100 million. Opened in 1944, the Clapham secret underground maze was constructed to shelter over 8,000 people during air raids. Complete with a canteen, medical stations and sleeping quarters, it offered a safe haven in times of war – even though it’s completely hidden beneath the streets of South London. It was repurposed several times including housing the first Caribbean migrants to Britain, who arrived on HMT Empire Windrush and becoming the Penny and Festival Hotel. What was extraordinary was that many of the tunnels were dug by hand at a depth of 30 meters and were just over 400 meters in length. People working 12 hours on and 12 hours off to build a safe haven for those avoiding the V1 and V2 bombs. How do we solve the extraordinary issue that we face on the elective waiting list. 6.4 million people needing to be seen and treated. 80% of those needing outpatient care. If every consultant colleague saw one extra patient in every clinic for one year we would halve our waiting list. How do we work together to solve the issue that is stopping us from doing our best for patients? The longer our waiting list, the more likely that our patients end up on an emergency pathway, have more time away from work and their families and have a reduced quality of life. Small steps matter and we can solve the #NHS issue but we need to do this together. What can we do to to make this happen? #Elective #Patients #ChangeTheNorm #StrongerTogether Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) NHS England Outpatient Recovery & Transformation The Royal College of Surgeons of England #Clapham #War #AirRaid #waitinglist

ICYMI – we’ve been sharing our 🎁 Gifts from GIRFT 🎁 all this week, flagging innovation and improvements from our GIRFT good practice collection to support YOU. This week’s stars for sharing best practice are: ⭐ University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust ⭐Croydon Health Services NHS Trust ⭐Norfolk Primary Care ⭐South and West Herts Health Care Partnership ⭐Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust Find all their amazing good practice and many other case studies in our online collection: 🔗https://bit.ly/3AUdbe3

Q: Are you getting the most out of GIRFT? No? We’ve got just the guide for you! Our new ‘Getting the most out of GIRFT’ toolkit offers a step-by-step guide to embedding GIRFT methodology as part of business as usual. You’ll find guidance, a checklist and a sample SOP, PLUS case studies from those who’ve done it (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust🌟) The toolkit is designed to help everyone from executive leaders to operational managers identify whether they are getting the most from GIRFT and set up the right governance structure to ensure they are. Take a look today: https://bit.ly/3Zvdrf7 Janet Cox

🌍It’s here! Our first greener pathway is out now, focusing on decarbonising the bladder cancer pathway: ✅12 high impact recommendations with practical actions for change ✅input from leading clinical experts to align with best clinical practice, maintaining the highest standards of care and quality ✅ an implementation checklist and log to help keep you on track Take a look today: https://bit.ly/4guD4Uq Developed with Greener NHS, THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED, The British Association of Urological Nurses (BAUN), The Royal College of Surgeons of England and the British Association of Day Surgery - BADS, with support from patients through the charity Fight Bladder Cancer, the guide supports NHS England's commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2045. GIRFT is ideally placed to design sustainable models of care given its national reach and clinically led approach to identifying and supporting best practices, and bladder cancer care is the first of many greener pathways GIRFT is developing in areas where there is the most potential for the NHS to improve or maintain the quality of patient care while mitigating its environmental impact, delivering cost savings and efficiencies. Watch this space for more… Joseph John Keith Gray Manraj Phull

NEW VIDEO! Did you know we now have 44 editable templates to help ensure faster responses to common Advice and Guidance requests in CYP, dermatology & urology (and loads more coming soon)? Are you making the most of them? This video explains how clinicians can make best use of our toolkits and templates, which are designed to enhance communication between primary and secondary care and reduce unnecessary delays. Take 2 mins to watch 🔽 then see our A&G toolkits: https://bit.ly/48V5iVM Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED The British Association of Urological Nurses (BAUN) Royal College of General Practitioners Simon Kenny Ronny Cheung Nick Levell MBE

📣The Quality Network for Mental Health Rehabilitation at The Royal College of Psychiatrists.📣 For anyone working in Mental Health Rehabilitation, are you a member yet? 🤩 The joy I feel when with other Rehab friends and colleagues all of whom care deeply about achieving and maintaining high quality standards for people needing Rehab and their families. A huge privilege to deliver the keynote lecture to friends and colleagues attending the annual national Rehab Quality Network conference a couple of days ago. Providing an update of the national picture for Rehab services, the improvements made with the support of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme and also the challenges that remain. Thank you Helen Killaspy for Chairing and your lifelong leadership in Rehabilitation. 🙏🏾 The next steps - ensuring all NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Systems are properly considering this patient cohort, with complex psychosis and needs, are crucial, to build on the successes and progress and ensure we do not slide backwards after so many years of advocacy to bring about national policy improvement, backed by resource. Do reach out to Suzannah Davies and to me, to tell us about your successes and also challenges - so we can celebrate and share and also support. NHS England South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust NHS Providers NHS Confederation Asha Praseedom Andrew Molodynski #mentalhealthrehabilitation #qualitynetwork #ICS #ICB #transforminglives