getting it right first time PROFESSOR TIMOTHY WR BRIGGS MBBS (Hons), MCh(Orth), MD(Res), FRCS(Ed), FRCS Medical Director and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Royal … Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is a national programme of improvement to identify and reduce unwarranted variation and non-evidence-based practice in healthcare. Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) is a national programme designed to improve medical care in the National Health Service (NHS) in England by reducing unwarranted variation. GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) has recently published its National Speciality Report into General Surgery, one of a series of 34 clinical speciality audits which will be carried out over the next two years.The report forms part of the GIRFT Programme set up by Professor Tim Briggs, National Director of Clinical Quality and Efficiency at NHS Improvement and Consultant NHS PROVIDERS | THE GETTING IT RIGHT FIRST TIME PROGRAMME fl EARLY VIEWS FROM THE PROVIDER SECTOR The GIRFT programme commenced as a national programme in November 2016, building on the original work of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Professor Tim Briggs who pioneered the programme in orthopaedics. 1. Introduction. Lohmander LS(1), Järvinen TLN(2). Getting It Right First Time. The importance of getting it right the first time. It focuses on quality, while also promoting cost savings – aiming to save £1.4bn by 2020/21. This briefing provides an overview of the Getting it right first time (GIRFT) programme, a partnership between the NHS Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust and NHS Improvement, to support NHS foundation trusts and trusts to improve care quality and increase operational productivity by reducing unwarranted variation in care. Getting it right for orthopaedics Learning from the first round of ‘Getting it Right First time’ Royal College Surgeons England thWednesday 27 January 2016 Professor Tim Briggs Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital National Director of Clinical Quality and Efficiency The Getting it Right First Time project (GIRFT) aims to deliver improvements in quality and reductions in the cost of NHS orthopaedic care across the country. Author information: (1)Hand and Wrist Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK. ... •Pilot project in Orthopaedics in 2012 •Now 39 workstreams •Surgical Workstreams–16 •Paediatric Surgery –Simon Kenny •Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery ( Trauma and Elective) –James Hunter ... (November 2018): Dedicated theatre time for Getting It Right in Orthopaedics: A follow-up on the GIRFT national specialty report on orthopaedics. Getting it right first time: a management protocol for acute and subacute fractures of the scaphoid. Author information: (1)Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopaedics, Lund University, Sweden. Get It Right The First Time (GIRFT) is a national initiative that first published a report in 2012. The report focused on cost savings and recommended changes to orthopaedic practice to improve patient outcomes [].Furthermore, in 2015 GIRFT reviewed 120 NHS trusts and reported variation in practice and outcomes, device and procedure selection, cost and infection … Berber O(1), Heras-Palou C(2), Gidwani S(1). The British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) is delighted and proud to support this follow-up report on Orthopaedics from the Getting It Right First Time programme. Electronic address: stefan.lohmander@med.lu.se. We will examine whether the planned changes have delivered improvements in the quality of care and patient outcomes. The first ‘Getting it Right First Time’ (GIRFT) report, published in 2012, recommended changes to NHS orthopaedic practice to improve patient outcomes, and achieve cost savings .