SAMIT and SAMIT 75+ - Getting It Right First Time

Summary Acute Medicine Indicator Table (SAMIT) and SAMIT 75+ for frailty

About SAMIT and SAMIT 75+

The SAMIT data dashboard provides a suite of 50 key metrics relevant to the acute medical patient pathway, for use by teams in Acute Medical Units (AMUs) and Same Day Emergency Care (SDECs) in England. It offers a deep understanding of an acute medical service, accounting for demand, capacity, processes, behaviours and performance.

The dashboard can be viewed at site or system level and includes an overview of key activity and resources linked to capacity, helping to highlight gaps which might be impacting on the delivery of a service. It also includes an overall ranked patient flow score – the GIRFT Acute Medicine Index (GAMI).

SAMIT 75+ is a tab within the SAMIT, offering national comparative data for frailty at site level. Metrics cover demand, flow and outcome for both the admission and recovery phases of frailty care. SAMIT 75+ also includes a GIRFT Elderly caRe Index (GERI) score.

Get started below.

Find out more about GIRFT’s data-led approach and best practice resources:

SAMIT & SAMIT 75+ portal – registration to NHSE OKTA required
GIRFT AGM resources
GIRFT geriatric medicine resources
GIRFT metrics on the Model Health System – MHS log in required

Start using the SAMIT & SAMIT 75+

If you haven’t already registered on the OKTA/NHSE Apps platform, please register at https://apps.model.nhs.uk/register
Once registered (or if you already have an OKTA/NHSE Apps account), login to your account using this link https://apps.model.nhs.uk/products
To request access to the SAMIT (including SAMIT 75+), scroll down the list of products on the ‘Insight’ home page to find the ‘Summary Acute Medicine Indicator Table (SAMIT and SAMIT 75+)’ and then press the button ‘request access’

To launch the SAMIT:

Once access is approved, access via the link to the Insight platform https://apps.model.nhs.uk/products
Alternatively, please use this link SAMIT: Tableau Server (england.nhs.uk) which is bespoke for the SAMIT.

GIRFT clinical lead for acute and general medicine

"We are very pleased to launch this indicator table, which has been developed to support health services gain a deeper understanding of data related to the delivery of acute hospital medical care. Such knowledge should help in local quality improvement work that will lead to optimal acute medical patient care and experiences."

Mike Jones

GIRFT clinical lead for acute and general medicine

GIRFT clinical advisor for acute and general medicine

"One of the best things about the SAMIT is that it recognises that Acute Medical Units operate within a wider system of primary, secondary, community and social care, with variations in geography, demographics, case-mix, resources and practices. These many variations are reflected in the site-level data."

Philip Dyer

GIRFT clinical advisor for acute and general medicine

GIRFT clinical lead for geriatric medicine

“The SAMIT 75+ has been developed by clinicians for clinicians, allowing a ‘helicopter view’ of how a service is performing. We’d urge those working in UEC specialties to make regular use of both the SAMIT and SAMIT 75+ to gauge performance and highlight gaps which might be impacting on the delivery of a service.”

Adrian Hopper

GIRFT clinical lead for geriatric medicine

Principal analyst for GIRFT

"The SAMIT has been designed to be intuitive and easily understood at a glance. This allows acute medical teams to quickly identify which areas they need to focus on to support improvements in patient care, and also to check what has changed since they last looked at the data."

Andrew Boasman

GIRFT principal analyst