Endocrine Abstracts

The GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) visits, about which we have consulted the membership of the Society for Endocrinology and had positive feedback from many members, have now started. We have done four pilots in Birmingham, Leicester, Oxford and York. The objectives are to try to introduce a quantitative approach to help demonstrate best practice. It will explore surgical outcome data and complication rates with regard to thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pituitary and neuro...

Society for Endocrinology peer review is in its 16th year. In 2018 the format has been updated and single centre reviews are now being carried out. The catchment area of hospitals reviewed has varied from 280 000 to 2.5 million. A review helps to highlight a centre’s strengths and help focus on areas for development. It is a qualitative deep dive into a service which includes benchmarking against other similar services. The review is conducted by a team of clinical endocr...

Multidisciplinary working is key to working as an endocrinologist. MDTs can be formal, such as in an oncology context, or a looser working arrangement of health care professional across different specialties and roles providing care to patients, often with multisystem or rare endocrine conditions. They can range from an MDT with no patients present, to a multidisciplinary or joint clinic. I will discuss some different models of multidisciplinary working and ideas on how to dev...