Calling all General Surgery Consultants, Matrons, Anaesthetists, Diagnosticians, AHPs, GPwSIs, operational managers and commissioners.

Introduction to the General Surgery high volume low complexity (HVLC) pathways and examples of success.

GIRFT are supporting the Midlands Elective Delivery Programme (MEDP) in putting on a series of webinars for all Midlands ICS’s regarding the recovery and transformation of elective services.

We are really pleased to be offering the third of these webinars to you which is going to focus on the General Surgery HVLC pathways and will take place on Friday 24th September from 12.30-1.30pm.

We are delighted that Stella Vig, Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust & London Clinical Director for General Surgery, has agreed to present and share with us what has been achieved in NHS London in terms of Covid recovery, as a result of using the HVLC approach in General Surgery.

Also hear about using data to help inform sustainable changes and the GIRFT Clinical Gateways.

If ICS’s would like to start thinking about their own General Surgery data and pathways ahead of the webinar:

• The GIRFT HVLC guide can be found at: https://www.gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/bpl/hvlc/

• Access to Model Health System and the latest published GIRFT gateway metrics and Theatre Utilisation data can be accessed for your systems at: https://nhsi.okta-emea.com/

• The four HVLC General Surgery clinical pathways can be found at: https://www.gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/bpl/pathways/

The MEDP is the vehicle for taking forward the HVLC programme in the Midlands and is based on the GIRFT principles of being clinically led, based on data, and using that data to understand clinical variation to drive continuous improvement in productivity and outcomes to the top decile of the GIRFT metrics. For more information about the MEDP please contact england.midlandselectivedeliveryprogramme@nhs.net

We look forward to seeing you on Friday 24th September from 12.30-1.30pm.

Kind regards

Midlands Elective Delivery Programme

england.midlandselectivedeliveryprogramme@nhs.net

Introduction to the General Surgery HVLC pathways and examples of success