The UK government announced a £3.225 million investment to expand the NHS England Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Musculoskeletal Community Delivery Programme nationwide. The expansion builds on a pilot that ran from December 2024 to March 2025 and cut 18-week-plus community waiting lists by about 20% in 17 integrated care boards. New funding will support one-day community appointment days that combine health specialists, mental-health support and physical-activity services, and will fund “super clinics” that increase clinical capacity and provide in-depth diagnostics and targeted treatments. The programme will embed employment support into community care, ensuring patients receive work-related guidance alongside treatment. Minister Sharon Hodgson said the scheme would help patients with arthritis and back pain access care faster and return to work, while Minister Dame Diana Johnson highlighted the investment’s potential to reduce health-related economic inactivity.
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