Interpreting Capacity analysis: the Detail
The Detail view lays out what happened in theatre or clinic, every minute of the day. This is how to interpret it.
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Interpreting Capacity analysis: the Charts
The Charts view gives you a statistical analysis of theatre and clinic usage on different days of the week. This is how it works, and how you interpret it.
Standard licences to replace read-only in September
In September 2016 we are going to replace Gooroo Planner's unsupported free read-only licences with supported Standard licences. The price? Just £1,000+VAT per user per year.
Tailgating – the false economy of letting the waiting list grow
Tailgating strategies powered the global financial crisis. Now the NHS is doing it too.
Waiting time targets – like happiness – are best pursued indirectly
It sounds sensible to book patients in before they breach the target. But in practice it is unfair, unsafe, and keeps waiting times on the brink of failure. There is a better way.
Planning a hospital for constant capacity – a worked example
In principle, we can plan the hospital to smooth out expensive peaks and troughs in capacity. In practice we need to apply some common sense too.
English waiting list grew by over 12 per cent year-on-year
Officially, England only just missed the 18 week target. Unofficially things were much worse because of non-reporting Trusts. What is most worrying is that the waiting list has grown by over 12 per cent year on year.
If the NHS had cruise control – the importance of constant capacity
Keeping waiting times close to the brink is a false economy. Make headroom once, and you can run the hospital more cheaply forever.
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.
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.