TY - JOUR T1 - Networks for future healthcare JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 118 LP - 124 DO - 10.7861/fhj.2022-0048 VL - 9 IS - 2 AU - David Hargroves AU - Deborah Lowe AU - Marion Wood AU - Simon Ray Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/118.abstract N2 - The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) process is designed to improve the care of patients in the NHS in England through in-depth review of services, benchmarking and presenting a data-driven evidence base to support change. It started as a pilot project targeting unwarranted variation in elective orthopaedic surgery. It rapidly became apparent that the approach of clinically-led deep dives to review the activity in individual orthopaedic units was effective in improving standards of care but also resulted in substantial cost savings that could be reinvested in the clinical service. GIRFT has now expanded to encompass 40 clinical specialties and is funded by NHS England. We describe the ethos of networks and give examples of GIRFT specialty programmes that have made networks a key component of their recommendations. ER -