The GIRFT UEC team is hosting a series of quarterly data platform masterclasses, starting in December 2025.
GIRFT’s SEDIT, SAMIT and SAMIT 75+ data dashboards bring together validated provider-level data summarising demand, capacity, flow and outcomes, all in one easily accessible place.
The new masterclasses will deliver interactive refreshers on how to use the dashboards to the best advantage, and will be led by GIRFT UEC clinical leads Dr Chris Moulton (emergency medicine), Dr Adrian Hopper (geriatric medicine) and Dr Mike Jones (acute medicine).
All UEC and operational colleagues in England are welcome to join.
Dates:
- 4 December 2025: SAMIT 75+
- 22 January 2026: SEDIT masterclass
- 29 January 2026: SAMIT masterclass
Anyone interested should email england.girftuec@nhs.net for more information (please add the masterclass title as your email subject).
The three dashboards support EDs and emergency medicine, acute medicine and geriatric medicine with data on key metrics, to support service transformation. They offer a deep understanding of UEC service, accounting for demand, capacity, and flow processes, behaviours and performance, which all contribute to patient care and experiences. The metrics include:
- Bed days for acute frail (aged 65+) medical (SMS) patients who had three or more admissions in the last 12 months
- Proportion of bed days for frail patients aged 65+ who have a length of stay >21 days
- Discharges within three days for frail patients aged 65+
- Ambulance handovers >30 minutes
- Four-hour target
- Admitted patient breach rate at 12 hours
- Admissions from ED for medical adults who waited >six hours
- Proportion of patients discharged within four days (72-hour acute pathway)
- Readmissions within 30 days (with LoS>0) for acute medical adult admissions with a 1+ LoS
All three dashboards can be viewed at site and system level, and will shortly be available at both regional and national level. Each includes an overview of key activity and resources (such as consultant and nursing numbers, physical bed availability) linked to capacity, helping to highlight gaps which might be impacting on the delivery of a service. The data is only six weeks old and is refreshed monthly, offering a GIRFT ranking for each site.
Dr Chris Moulton, GIRFT’s clinical lead for emergency medicine, said:
“Most UEC dashboards are operational tools that are intended to manage patient flow or to monitor improvement. The SEDIT is different - it is a diagnostic indicator table, designed to identify the root causes of any ED issues.”
Managing UEC patient flow to ensure that patients get the right care, in the right place, at the right time is becoming ever more crucial. GIRFT’s Further-Faster-Handbook-UEC-August-2025.pdf can support colleagues with the target of ensuring that, by 2026, 78% of patients attending ED are treated, discharged or admitted within four hours.
