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Covid-19 planning – phase 3 and beyond
The focus may be on activity now, but demand will return to centre stage.
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Covid-19 planning part 1 – the shutdown
A technical document about modelling elective shutdown during the covid-19 peak in Gooroo Planner, with a focus on scenarios for reducing elective care.
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Covid-19 planning part 2 – the recovery
A technical guide to planning the post-covid recovery, with an emphasis on elective care. Updated on 15 July 2020..
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Delivering the Operational Plans
A full draft Operational Plan by the 8th of February? Certainly, sir. Would you prefer the sums to be wrong, or the method unrealistic?
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Demand, capacity, and the law of averages
If you plan capacity without allowing for variation, disaster will follow. Or will it?
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Different beds, different bed occupancies
The differences between medicine and maternity, big units and small ones. Part 6 of a 7-part series on bed occupancy.
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Don’t target the waiting list size
At the core of this year's planning guidance lay something rather unusual. I think its intention was benign. But it has the potential to cause... Watch the video
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Enough
Whose fault is it that the NHS isn't delivering enough activity to keep up with demand? And what is "enough", anyway?
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First go at using the Planner API
My first go at trying the new Planner API. All by myself. And you know what? It was really easy. (And an NHS hospital has... Watch the video
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Free: Gooroo dataset generator now available for download
The dataset generator for Gooroo Planner, created by Andy Bailey at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is now available for free download from our... Watch the video