This event is an opportunity for trainees from all medical and surgical specialities to learn about the NHS England Further Faster Outpatient transformation programme and how trainees can both benefit and help to transform outpatient services in the local department.
This a must-attend event for any trainee interested in service and quality improvement in elective services!
What is Further Faster?
Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is working with NHS trusts as part of a programme called ‘Further Faster’ to deliver rapid clinical transformation with the aim of reducing 52-week waits.
The work brings together clinicians and operational teams with the challenge of collectively going ‘further and faster’ to transform patient pathways and working to reduce unnecessary appointments and improve access and waiting times for patients.
Clinical transformation groups have been established across 19 specialties, involving clinical leads from across the trusts as well as national speciality leads, and other key stakeholders. These groups seek to foster cross-organisational learning and provide a network and collaborative for trust clinical, operational and programme leads to gain peer support, share experiences and lessons learned, as well as the more practical aspects such as sharing of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and project documentation.
The programme aims to support adoption of outpatient transformation guidance, as well as GIRFT’s ‘high volume, low complexity’ (HVLC) surgical standardised pathways, including day case pathways and the use of elective surgical hubs.
- Anaesthesia & perioperative medicine
- Cardiology
- Children and young people
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Endocrinology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- General surgery
- Geriatric medicine
- Gynaecology
- Neurology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
- Respiratory
- Rheumatology
- Spinal surgery
- Urology