Implementing high flow lists – An update (GIRFT, July 2025)

This guide follows on from the ‘Delivering high flow lists’ guide released in January 2025, where trusts in the Further Faster 20 cohort were challenged to implement high flow lists (HFL) to increase theatre capacity and reduce numbers of patients on waiting lists for orthopaedics, general surgery, urology and gynaecology. This guide gives an update on where those trusts are with implementation, financing, lessons learnt and future plans to enable more trusts to adopt high flow lists.