Model Health System
GIRFT and Model Health System
Model Health System (formerly Model Hospital) is a digital information service designed to help NHS providers improve their productivity and efficiency. GIRFT is working in partnership with the Model Health System team to include GIRFT metrics on the portal, providing valuable insight to helps trusts improve their performance.
NHS staff can sign up with their trust email address at model.nhs.uk and can view data relating to the performance of their trust. Register for Model Health System or log in by clicking here.
Many of the GIRFT programme’s specialty workstreams now have a selection of GIRFT metrics available to view on the Model Health System platform. Users are able to drill down into each metric in more detail to understand where improvements can be made. GIRFT data is available for the following specialties:
- Acute and general medicine
- Adult cranial neurosurgery
- Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine
- Breast surgery (phases 1 & 2)
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Endocrinology
- ENT surgery
- Gastroenterology
- General surgery
- Geriatric medicine
- Gynaecology
- Hospital dentistry
- Ophthalmology
- Oral & maxillofacial surgery
- Orthopaedics (T&O)
- Paediatric cranial neurosurgery
- Paediatric ENT
- Paediatric general surgery and urology
- Paediatric trauma and orthopaedic surgery
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Spinal surgery
- Urology
- Vascular surgery
Model Health System can be accessed by anyone who works within NHS trusts and systems. The GIRFT data on the portal is the most up-to-date available and enables trusts to gain a deeper understanding of their current performance and opportunities for improvement. Each GIRFT metric has the methodology used for calculation included.
To support elective recovery, GIRFT also offers specific metrics for High Volume Low Complexity (HVLC) pathways on MHS, accompanied by a standalone HVLC dashboard. There is also benchmarking data on day case rates for British Association of Day Surgery (BADS) procedures and a range of metrics to review elective theatre performance.
The National Consultant Information Programme data portal is also now available on the MHS, allowing consultants to review their own data: improving clinical quality, patient safety and supporting career development.
The GIRFT Summary Emergency Department Indicator Table (SEDIT) can also be accessed via MHS, to support ED teams to understand service delivery and identify opportunities to support recovery, improvement and transformation.
Latest updates
September 2025: New strategic commissioning insights for ICBs on Model Health System: A new Strategic Commissioning Insights compartment is now available to view on the Model Health System. The compartment has been developed and designed to support Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) in identifying potential opportunities for improvement. The metrics within the compartment contain a mix of both spend/cost and activity volumes for ICBs, based on data for the 2024 calendar year.
They cover selected conditions across five key areas:
- Acute non-elective inpatient admissions
- Acute elective admissions
- Acute outpatient attendances
- Emergency department attendances
- Primary care prescribing
Sub-ICB metrics are available in an excel workbook which is accessible in the Help & Support section on the main compartment landing page or via “Understanding the Data” within each individual metric