PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - David Hargroves
AU  - Deborah Lowe
AU  - Marion Wood
AU  - Simon Ray
TI  - Networks for future healthcare
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2022-0048
DP  - 2022 Jul 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 118--124
VI  - 9
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/118.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/118.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2022 Jul 01; 9
AB  - 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.