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Planning: coping with data errors
How to fix missing and inaccurate data automatically, and ensure next year's planning is built on firm foundations.
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Planning: the easy, the hard, and the important
Why planning is so complex, and how you can keep it meaningful.
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Post-covid recovery planning FAQs
Whether you're planning the coming months or the recovery, or both, here are the questions people are asking
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Powerful data handling with Planner’s Update button
You keep different kinds of data in different places? No problem. Gooroo Planner will put it all together for you, more powerfully than you might... Watch the video
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Putting operational managers in control of performance
The "exceptions table" sounds innocuous enough. But whoever controls it has the power to transform the management of entire hospitals.
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RCEM: Bed occupancy – time for a new message
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) kindly invited me to speak at their Policy Forum. My case was not so much that 85% is... Watch the video
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Recent upgrades to the Gooroo software
A quick round-up of the software enhancements we've put in place over recent weeks.
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Recurring or non-recurring?
Is this once-off, or something we need to keep doing? It's an expensive confusion to make, but it happens up and down the NHS. Here's... Watch the video
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Referral to treatment: one lump or three?
When modelling referral-to-treatment waiting times, it is better to model each stage separately (outpatient, diagnostic, inpatient or daycase).
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Sandbags, dredging, and waiting times forecasting
What can the NHS learn from the Environment Agency's management of flood risk? Mainly this: the NHS doesn't do nearly enough forecasting.