GIRFT 1 November 2019
- The GIRFT review of ENT services visited 126 units across the country. This report highlights a significant degree of unwarranted variation in a number of key areas in delivery of ENT surgery and suggests how the many examples of good practice in the delivery of ENT services could be adopted in order to improve patient care and outcomes.
- The report makes 23 recommendations ranging from increasing day case surgery, networks for out-of-hours provision, improve the procurement of devices and consumables, consider including Patient Reported Outcome Metrics (PROMs) for ENT and head and neck surgery and implement the GIRFT 5 point plan for reducing litigation costs.
