Planning: the easy, the hard, and the important
Why planning is so complex, and how you can keep it meaningful.
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How to achieve 18 weeks
Waiting time reports are being sent to English Trusts, and here we explain how they were constructed and put them into a national context.
Why plans are always wrong
Why healthcare planning is never accurate, why we shouldn't worry about it, and why it is still useful.
Acute clinical linkages: all mapped out
Which acute services depend on which other acute services? We provide a comprehensive map of 24-hour on-site service interdependency.
The new Operating Framework and 18 week waits
The waiting time target remains 90 per cent within 18 weeks RTT for admitted patients, enforced through the contract. But it takes a bit of work to find that out.
Shorter waits, whatever your waiting list
A new video shows how waiting times can be slashed, even if the number of patients waiting stays the same.
What is “demand”?
What is demand? Not the same as activity, anyway. But neither is it the same as the healthcare needs of the population.
Respecting urgency while struggling with 18 weeks
What happens to the care of urgent patients when hospitals struggle with the 18-week waiting time target?
Planning: coping with data errors
How to fix missing and inaccurate data automatically, and ensure next year's planning is built on firm foundations.
Gooroo Research Paper: The causes of disruption
Aside from good booking practices and cutting the number of patients waiting, there is plenty you can do to reduce disruption (and therefore waiting times) at very little cost.