The way in which national organisations develop and issue safety alerts is changing.
A range of national bodies and teams have issued alerts, messages, notices and similar safety communications to healthcare providers for many years. These communications required action by healthcare...More
The scope of Orthopaedic Trauma is broad. Therefore to make this questionnaire relevant I have focussed on those areas which I believe either to be important in themselves or as a general indicator of a unit's well-being. I have consulted widely with others. Additionally I have chosen to...More
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The GIRFT programme has seen significant success in the surgical specialities and now more recently in the medical projects. The success of GIRFT has been based on using data to drive improvement. It is crucial to understand the system in which we are working to be able to...More
Following the presentation and discussion at the recent Programme Advisory Board we're keen to gather further feedback and reflections on the Board Development offer, which will be a key component of the new integrated improvement offer.
The slides presented at the meeting are attached below...More
Please note: due to COVID-19, we have extended the closing date of this consultation until Sunday 18 October 2020.
A key part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy published in July 2019, is the introduction of a framework for Patient Safety Partners to provide guidance on how the NHS can...More
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In 2017 to 2018, your engagement with the GIRFT process was vital to enable us to identify the challenges we face delivering ophthalmology services, potential areas of unwarranted variation and examples of innovative and great practice. The GIRFT ophthalmology team would like to...More
Over the past three years the National AHP Leadership team for England have had a focus on developing AHP leadership capacity and capability. In 2017 we began our initial work on this through a survey to trusts in England aimed at gaining an understanding of their current AHP leadership...More
Over 1.3 million people work in the English NHS, making us the largest employer in Britain and in Europe. We want the NHS to be the best place to work, where our staff are energised, empowered and equipped to make real improvements to deliver safer and better patient care.
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We are continously striving to improve the product and really want to know what works for for our users and what doesn't. Your feedback on the latest updates to The Model Hospital is invaluable as we move towards a Model Health System.
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We are undertaking a Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) review of paediatric critical care services across England. We would like to capture a summary of paediatric critical care services within your organisation. We anticipate that this information would best be provided by a clinician who...More
Please take some time to complete our survey to help us obtain a clearer understanding on what you feel has worked well, as well as any lessons learned whilst working within the Education and Training workstream
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Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) and the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) worked in partnership to develop a pilot programme focusing on Orthopaedics and Spinal work carried out in the independent sector. The ambition of the pilot programme was to identify examples of...More
We are undertaking a Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) review of paediatric critical care services across England. We would like to capture a summary of paediatric critical care services within your network and some details about how your Network is organised. We anticipate that this...More
Welcome to our lessons learned survey. We really value your expertise and knowledge, and therefore would really welcome your opinion.
It is important that we capture lessons learned from each workstream within the Non-Clinical Goods and Services Cell. A few weeks ago an excel...More
The NHS offered support to care homes through a mutual aid offer via their Local Resilience Forums to deliver IPC, PPE and COVID-19 Testing training during this COVID-19 pandemic.
By the 29 May 2020, training has been delivered either face to face or virtually to over 10,000...More
As part of our commitment to continually learn and improve National Patient Safety Alerts, the national patient safety team is keen to understand how organisations responded to the Patient safety alert ‘ Risk of death and severe harm from ingesting superabsorbent polymer gel granules’ ...More
As part of our commitment to continually learn and improve National Patient Safety Alerts, the national patient safety team is keen to understand how organisations responded to the Patient safety alert ‘ Risk of death and severe harm from ingesting superabsorbent polymer gel granules’ ...More
As part of our commitment to continually learn and improve National Patient Safety Alerts, the national patient safety team is keen to understand how organisations responded to the Patient safety alert ‘ Risk of death and severe harm from ingesting superabsorbent polymer gel granules’ ...More
This survey is an opportunity for the NHSE/I team to gain feedback from Phase 2 of the ED Retention and Recruitment Programme in order to assess how we might deliver the programme going forward.
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Getting It Right First Time
Following on from the first round of deep-dive visits. The Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Review team would like to request additional information before the second round of visits where we aim to see trusts working as a network.
The work...More
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We hope that this will be a temperature check of changes in rheumatology departments during this pandemic and will help to give context our forthcoming virtual visits and to the rheumatology GIRFT National...More
In this questionnaire, we are seeking to understand how paediatric critical care is commissioned and funded, and about what information is captured within your organisation. We anticipate that this information would best be provided by someone senior within the finance team, though some...More
Sustainability is a key priority for the NHS in 2020. In January 2020 Sir Simon Stevens announced plans for the ‘NHS to be a world leader in sustainability’. It is estimated that the health and care system in England is responsible for 4-5% of the country’s carbon footprint. The...More
As part of our drive towards a single national cost collection , we are currently undertaking the mandation of patient-level costing (known as PLICS) for community health services, beginning in financial year 2020/21.
To help progress that work we would like to know what extra costs...More