The sixth module in GIRFT’s popular series of practical guides for theatre productivity is available now.
The latest module focuses on workforce planning and deployment, outlining key principles for workforce planning to best support effective theatre flows. It completes a series of guides designed to support staff to understand how finetuning each part of the surgical pathway contributes to the elective recovery goal.
The Theatre Productivity Programme practical guides can be found on the GIRFT website:
- Theatre booking
- Theatre waiting list management and list allocation
- Theatre scheduling
- Patient preparation and effective theatre flow
- Surgical discharge
- Workforce planning and deployment
The six guides are complementary to existing guidance from professional societies/colleges and other national bodies. Since the first module was shared in December 2023, the guides have had more than 2,000 views and downloads from the GIRFT website.
GIRFT is helping to lead a national theatre programme which draws together all key national workstreams engaged in improving theatre productivity, efficiency and workforce.
The key aims of the programme are to support providers and systems to maximise the effectiveness and throughput of their surgical theatres through improvements across the surgical elective pathway.
