Summary
Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is designed to improve the quality of care within the NHS by reducing unwarranted variations. By tackling variations in the way services are delivered across the NHS, and by sharing best practice between trusts, GIRFT identifies changes that will help improve care and patient outcomes, as well as delivering efficiencies such as the reduction of unnecessary procedures and cost savings.
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This report follows up on the GIRFT national specialty report on orthopaedics, looking back at the substantial improvements seen in orthopaedic services since the first deep-dive visits to trusts in 2012. It show evidence of substantial improvement against all the key GIRFT metrics, meaning that the NHS is providing better quality orthopaedic care and getting better value for money.
The headline findings include:
- Revision rates have fallen every year since 2012, even while total activity and demand grows
- Average lengths of stay have been reduced by a fifth, releasing over 368k bed-days
- £696 million of operational and financial opportunities have been released to trusts
View the original GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on orthopaedics
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