Adaptable – how NHS planning is rediscovering its purpose
The old, centralised, annualised approach to planning and performance management is fading. In its place is emerging something much more adaptable, much more granular, and much more useful.
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How to use the new constant capacity settings
Capacity in the NHS can be a bit of a bumpy ride, with expensive escalation beds and extra sessions. Gooroo Planner can help you smooth things out, with new constant capacity modelling.
Upgrade: constant capacity
The latest (free) upgrade to Gooroo Planner includes constant capacity modelling, zero profiling, overhauled dataset settings, and revised capacity calculations.
It’s official: England breaches the 18 week standard
England officially breached the 18 week target at national level in December 2015, after unofficially breaching it since October. The cause: long term rapid growth in the size of the waiting list.
An end to annual planning
No, annual planning is not dead yet. But it could become simply a by-product of genuine operational planning.
England still (probably) breaching 18 weeks
The 18 week target was narrowly breached again in November, if you adjust for non-reporting Trusts.
Enough
Whose fault is it that the NHS isn't delivering enough activity to keep up with demand? And what is "enough", anyway?
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?
Modelling complex patient pathways
Clinical pathways don't always run in straight lines. Here is how you can model even quite complex pathways quickly and easily using Gooroo Planner.
England breaches 18 weeks
If you take non-reporting Trusts into account, the English NHS probably breached 18 weeks in October - for the first time since the target was originally achieved in January 2012.