GIRFT Queensland provides a quality framework that supports clinicians to continually deliver high quality services, understand variations in care, and support equity of access and cost efficiency for identified specialty areas and services through a clinician led, data driven methodology. The program utilises benchmarked data to facilitate discussions at local site visits around unwarranted variation, exemplar practices and improvement opportunities. Following site visits, a series of improvement opportunities are proposed for each site to consider and action.
Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Queensland
Initiative Type
Service Improvement
Status
Deliver
Added
22 December 2021
Last updated
08 March 2023
Summary
Key dates
Jun 2019
Jun 2022
Implementation sites
19 Queensland Health hospitals as well as The Mater (Public) Hospital
Partnerships
Professor Tim Briggs CBE, Chair of GIRFT and National Director of Clinical Improvement for the NHS, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), Directors of Orthopaedics (Queensland Health), Healthcare Purchasing and System Performance Division (QH)
Aim
To identify and address unwarranted variation to improve patient outcomes and optimise value in care for patients, clinicians, and the Queensland public health care system.
Benefits
- improved patient outcomes
- engaged and empowered clinicians
- improved value and efficiency.
Background
The GIRFT program, developed in the National Health Service (NHS) by Professor Tim Briggs CBE, was initially piloted in orthopaedics in 2019 as part of the Delivering What Matters Ministerial priority program.
Initial successes have resulted in continuation of the program in Orthopaedics with approval to expand to additional specialties, including emergency surgery, ear nose and throat surgery and general surgery.
