Modelling follow-up outpatient backlogs
A practical guide to modelling follow-up outpatients (known as "returns" or "repeats" in Scotland) using Gooroo Planner, including waiting times, capacity, and how to model defined courses of treatment.
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A practical guide to modelling follow-up outpatients (known as "returns" or "repeats" in Scotland) using Gooroo Planner, including waiting times, capacity, and how to model defined courses of treatment.
A guest post by Jonathon Fagge, who has been through five winter planning seasons as an NHS Commissioner – three as a Director and two as CEO. He asks two big questions: how could it be done better, and why isn't it?
The English waiting list grew seasonally in May to reach a record size. But waiting times remained steady, as the deterioration was concentrated in shorter-waiting specialties.
The latest guidance is massively simplifying the rules on 18 week waits. There is now a huge opportunity to do the same for local waiting times management.
We have released a major upgrade to the Gooroo API - the tool for automating your capacity planning and integrating it into your business intelligence dashboards.
Why the overhauled waiting times targets are better, and the dangers to watch out for. (First published by the Royal College of Surgeons)
The English NHS carried on treating long-waiters in April as if the 'managed breach' had never come to an end, scoring a significant improvement in waiting times.
Changing your capacity planning over to the new waiting times targets is a doddle with Gooroo Planner
The two perverse 18-weeks targets have been scrapped in England, strengthening the 18 week standard and making it fairer.
The English NHS treated record numbers of long-waiting patients in March, taking full advantage of the last month of the 'managed breach' and achieving the main 18-weeks target at the end of the financial year.