As part of NHS England’s improvement work (NHS IMPACT) colleagues – including the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST) and Getting it right First Time (GIRFT) – have been working with colleagues from across the NHS to develop a series of improvement guides and supporting infrastructure.

These guides have been created, informed and tested with NHS staff. We want to understand how they work for you and your teams, and how we can further develop and improve them to make them as useful as possible to support local improvement programmes.

Therefore, these are interim guides – our intention is they will be refined, developed and updated as we learn what works through your teams.

Please share your ideas and feedback with us by emailing england.clinops@nhs.net, or through your local learning and improvement network.

The guides cover:

• improving flow through emergency care (reducing avoidable admissions and optimising admitted care)
• generating greater value for patients from theatres, elective surgery and perioperative care
• generating greater value for patients from outpatient services
• improving medical consultant job planning