Surgery: Health Services
(asked on 5th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish examples from within the NHS of (a) innovative care and (b) best practice for patients receiving treatment on NHS England’s General Surgery Service; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is designed to improve the treatment and care of patients through reviews of services, benchmarking and developing an evidence base to support change. Through the High Volume Low Complexity programme, the GIRFT team is working with systems and regions to assist the National Health Service recover performance in elective services and reduce the backlog of patients.
The GIRFT programme has published examples of best practice in treating patients for general surgery and trauma and orthopaedics in its Best Practice Library, which is available at the following link: