A leaflet to help patients with diabetes stay healthy in the lead-up to elective surgery has been produced in association with one of GIRFT’s clinical leads. Professor Gerry Rayman MBE, a consultant diabetologist at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust and GIRFT joint clinical lead for diabetes, worked with surgeons, anaesthetists and staff […]
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Toolkit published to help trusts get the most out of GIRFT
A new toolkit is helping trusts get the most out of the Getting It Right First Time programme, offering advice from teams who have successfully embedded the GIRFT approach into business as usual. Teams from Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust developed the toolkit alongside the GIRFT team. It […]
GIRFT team publishes research into the volume-outcome effect for robot-assisted prostate surgery
A data-driven study demonstrating that men undergoing robot-assisted prostate surgery for cancer are more likely to have better outcomes at centres which perform the operation most often has been published in an international medical journal. The observational study of volume-outcome effects for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in England is authored by a team from the […]
Dermatology lead receives ultimate accolade for services to the specialty
Professor Nick Levell, the clinician leading GIRFT’s dermatology workstream, has been honoured by his professional association for his outstanding service to the speciality. Professor Levell was awarded the prestigious Sir Archibald Gray Medal at the 2021 British Association of Dermatologists’ (BAD) annual meeting, by the president Dr Tanya Bleiker. Named after the founder of the […]