Kings Fund 28 June 2017
- 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. It uses national data to identify the variations and outcomes, shares that data with all those concerned with a service and monitors the changes that are implemented.
- The programme began with orthopaedics and is now being rolled out to 32 different surgical and medical specialisms across the English NHS.
- The evidence to date suggests that the GIRFT programme is achieving higher-quality care in hospitals at lower cost, with the engagement of both clinicians and management in the process.
