Urology: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (July 2018)

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.

Content

Urology departments provide 750,000 episodes of care every year in England. This GIRFT report for urology makes 18 recommendations to help improve patient care and increase urology capacity, based on visits to 140 trusts. Key themes include:

• optimising outpatient services.
• improving patient experience and reducing length of stay.
• placing a greater focus on urology emergency care.
• better networking between urology departments.

Following the report, GIRFT published a handbook for urology departments, Getting It Right in Urology handbook: innovations, good practice and guidelines for establishing a urology area network

Short video summary of the report