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GIRFT National Specialty Reports

Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is an NHS England clinical improvement programme. Senior clinicians visit every trust in a specialty, benchmark outcomes against peers, and publish national reports with recommendations to reduce unwarranted clinical variation. Data sourced from gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk.

45 reports 835 recommendations 44 specialties 583 addressees 16/835 body-linked

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45 matching reports.

Diabetes: Children and Young Adults

Lead: Dr Nivedita Aswani, Dr Fulya Mehta and Professor Partha Kar

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on diabetes in children and young adults

Published 1 Jul 2026 Diabetes: Children and Young Adults 3 recs

Paediatric Rheumatology

Lead: Dr Gavin Cleary and Dr Flora McErlane

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on paediatric rheumatology. Recommendations are taken from the published executive summary; the full report is on FutureNHS, which requires a …

Published 1 Dec 2025 Paediatric Rheumatology 8 recs

Head and Neck Cancer

Lead: Dawson, Graystone, Shah, MacNab, Ashley, Heaton, Homer, Li, and Naylor

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on head and neck cancer. Recommendations are taken from the published executive summary; the full report is on FutureNHS, which …

Published 1 Nov 2025 Head and Neck Cancer 4 recs

Pancreatic Cancer

Lead: Raneem Albazaz, Daniel Palmer, Claire Pearce, Ganesh Radhakrishna and Keith Roberts

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on pancreatic cancer. Recommendations are taken from the published executive summary; the full report is on FutureNHS, which requires a …

Published 1 Nov 2025 Pancreatic Cancer 12 recs

Maternity and Gynaecology

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on maternity and gynaecology

Published 1 Nov 2024 Maternity and Gynaecology 17 recs

Orthopaedic Trauma

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on adult orthopaedic trauma

Published 1 Nov 2024 Orthopaedic Trauma 10 recs

Paediatric Cranial and Spinal Neurosurgery

Lead: Professor Paul May

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on paediatric cranial and spinal neurosurgery. Recommendations are taken from the published executive summary; the full report is on FutureNHS, …

Published 1 Sep 2023 Paediatric Cranial and Spinal Neurosurgery 9 recs

Paediatric Critical Care

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on paediatric critical care

Published 1 Dec 2022 Paediatric Critical Care 22 recs

Children and Young People's Mental Health Services

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on children and young people's mental health services

Published 1 Nov 2022 Children and Young People's Mental Health 21 recs

Mental Health Rehabilitation

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on mental health rehabilitation

Published 1 Nov 2022 Mental Health Rehabilitation 18 recs

Lung Cancer

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on lung cancer

Published 1 Oct 2022 Lung Cancer 33 recs

Stroke

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on stroke

Published 1 Oct 2022 Stroke 29 recs

Pathology

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on pathology

Published 1 May 2022 Pathology 21 recs

Acute and General Medicine

Lead: Dr Mike Jones

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on acute and general medicine

Published 1 Apr 2022 Acute and General Medicine 19 recs

Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on paediatric trauma and orthopaedic surgery

Published 1 Apr 2022 Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery 32 recs

Diabetes

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on diabetes

Published 1 Jan 2022 Diabetes 15 recs

Neonatology

Lead: Eleri Adams, Kelly Harvey and Michelle Sweeting

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on neonatology

Published 1 Jan 2022 Neonatology 21 recs

Neonatology - Workforce

Lead: Eleri Adams, Kelly Harvey and Michelle Sweeting

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on the neonatology workforce

Published 1 Jan 2022 Neonatology 5 recs

Respiratory Medicine

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on respiratory medicine

Published 1 Oct 2021 Respiratory Medicine 26 recs

Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Lead: Dr Chris Sherwood and Dr Mike Swart

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on anaesthesia and perioperative medicine

Published 1 Sep 2021 Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine 18 recs

Dermatology

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on dermatology

Published 1 Sep 2021 Dermatology 23 recs

Emergency Medicine

Lead: Chris Moulton and Cliff Mann

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on emergency medicine

Published 1 Sep 2021 Emergency Medicine 28 recs

Gastroenterology

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on gastroenterology

Published 1 Sep 2021 Gastroenterology 24 recs

General Surgery

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on general surgery

Published 1 Sep 2021 General Surgery 20 recs

Geriatric Medicine

GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report on geriatric medicine

Published 1 Sep 2021 Geriatric Medicine 19 recs

Recommendations by clinical specialty

Ten specialties with the most indexed recommendations

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Ten specialties with the most indexed recommendations · full collection
Clinical specialty	Recommendations
Lung Cancer	33
Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery	32
Stroke	29
Emergency Medicine	28
Neonatology	26
Neurology	26
Respiratory Medicine	26
Cardiology	25
Gastroenterology	24
ENT	23

Key findings

Coverage · body linkage

GIRFT has published 45 national specialty reports containing 835 recommendations across 44 clinical specialties. Recommendations are addressed to 583 distinct addressee categories including NHS trusts, national bodies and professional organisations. 16 of 835 recommendations have been linked to a specific responsible body.