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<p>NHS Improvement has an ongoing programme to help trusts reduce their waiting times
for patients by making better use of their theatre time. This has been supported by
their theatre productivity report ‘Operating theatres: opportunities to reduce waiting
lists’ which includes insights to support clinicians, managers and hospital leaders
to further challenge themselves to improve how care is delivered and how valuable
theatre resources and clinical expertise can be best used. NHS Improvement is taking
steps to help trusts meet the challenges outlined in the report, including:</p><p>-
Running workshops in the five English National Health Service regions so that trusts
can learn from those that have made productivity and capacity gains through structured
improvement work;</p><p> </p><p>- Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is supporting
trusts to deliver quality and productivity improvements for patients in many surgical
specialties; and</p><p> </p><p>- NHS Improvement’s regional teams are supporting trusts
with theatre improvement work, using the insights from our analysis and drawing on
expert advice from the GIRFT programme.</p><p> </p><p>‘Operating theatres: opportunities
to reduce waiting lists’ is available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/operating-theatres-opportunities-reduce-waiting-lists/"
target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/operating-theatres-opportunities-reduce-waiting-lists/</a></p>
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