Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)

Are you delivering dental care for the most vulnerable in society? Join our GIRFT webinar, where you can hear why the CDS is important and learn about CDS: 💠Training 💠Education 💠Workforce 💠Safety Date: 29 January 2025 Time: 12.30 pm 👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/3Wx5PrN #DentalCare #DentalCommunity The Royal College of Surgeons of England British Dental Association

🌟 New Gastroenterology Advice & Guidance Toolkit Now Available! 🌟 We’re excited to announce the launch of a comprehensive Advice & Guidance (A&G) toolkit for gastroenterology, developed by GIRFT in collaboration with the British Society of Gastroenterology and the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology. This toolkit is designed to support GPs with decision-making by providing tailored advice from specialist gastroenterologists. It includes customisable templates for secondary care clinicians to respond to common queries about conditions like constipation, chronic diarrhoea, irritable bowel syndrome, and abnormal liver function tests (LFTs). Developed with input from primary and secondary care clinicians, the templates aim to: ✅ Enhance the timeliness and quality of responses to GPs ✅ Foster collaboration between primary and secondary care ✅ Streamline outpatient processes and improve patient outcomes 👀 Read more on our website: https://ow.ly/QAtc50UK2m0 📌 Explore the toolkit on the GIRFT FutureNHS workspace: https://lnkd.in/eVTpB6tY #Gastroenterology #NHS #PatientCare #PrimaryCare British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Primary Care Society For Gastroenterology

Don’t miss out… improve your understanding of how clinicians and supported housing providers can work together to deliver the best care for rehab patients. Dr Sridevi Kalidindi CBE will be joined on the webinar by colleagues from Rethink Mental Illness Choice Support Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Look Ahead Care and Support Register now to join the webinar tomorrow at 12.30: https://bit.ly/3PATkHT #SupportedHousing #MentalHealth

🦷 Our guidance to help improve Community Dental Services (CDS) for children and adults with special needs is OUT NOW. The guidance (a supplement to the GIRFT national report for hospital dentistry) was developed by a group of 25 experts working in a range of roles in different CDS providers from the different specialties of paediatric and special care dentistry. As part of the work, a questionnaire was sent out to all 68 CDS providers in England, which received a 100% response rate. Click the link below ⬇️ to read our actions to help improve safety, data capture, governance, networking, service delivery and workforce, training & education. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WkfUYZ And don't forget to sign up for our webinar on 29th January (12.30pm) for a chance to learn more about the guidance. Register: https://bit.ly/3CjW1dL British Dental Association BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ORAL SURGEONS Jason Wong Urshla (Oosh) Devalia

Join our GIRFT webinar with Dr Sridevi Kalidindi CBE to hear how clinicians and supported housing providers can work together to deliver the best care for rehab patients. 📅 Tuesday 21 January 2025 ⏰ 12:30 to 13:45 👉 Find out more and register: https://bit.ly/3PATkHT Rethink Mental Illness Choice Support Look Ahead Care and Support Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Association of Mental Health Providers

📢 Vacancy 📢 Want to make a difference to adults with serious mental illness? We’re looking for a new clinical lead to focus on further developing and improving pathways into and through community and hospital care. The scope of this role includes adults and older adults accessing, or needing to access, secondary care mental health services (excluding tertiary care), which includes community and crisis mental health teams, and adult, older adult and PICU inpatient mental health teams. The new clinical lead will take over from Ian Davidson, building on the recommendations of his GIRFT national specialty report, and the subsequent work that has been done with trusts, ICBs and regions around the country. To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter (FAO Professor Tim Briggs) via email to Suzannah.davies1@nhs.net. Closing date for applications is Friday 24th January 2025. Interviews are likely to be held virtually via MS Teams in early February. Full details: https://bit.ly/3zPrnIb The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Start the new year as you mean to go on... Get the most out of GIRFT with our NEW step by step guidance supporting you to embed GIRFT as business as usual. Our toolkit includes a sample SOP and case studies from trusts who've done just that Take a look: https://bit.ly/3Zvdrf7

🥳 👏 🤩 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