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?
Changing your capacity planning over to the new waiting times targets is a doddle with Gooroo Planner
Is this once-off, or something we need to keep doing? It’s an expensive confusion to make, but it happens up and down the NHS. Here’s how Gooroo Planner makes it all absolutely clear.
There are three ways to model service changes in Gooroo Planner: simplistic, simple, and comprehensive. We look at the pros and cons of each method.
The annual planning round is a bit stale. By transforming planning into a continuous and live management process, we can make sure it changes real life for the better. In a speech to the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts, I explained how this also creates an important new operational-facing role for analysts.
Last-minute deals, plans that nobody believes in… does the annual contracting round have to be like this?
The NHS puts a lot of effort into the annual planning round. Why are those plans so rarely implemented?
How can we structure this year’s planning round, to stop it from going around in circles?