Why does the year never turn out according to plan? And why does money always drift out of line with activity? There’s something wrong with planning.
With a good plan, everyone knows what to do
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Annual planning
Treat more, clear the backlog! Slow down, you’re over-performing!
Did your annual plan resolve the tension between 18 weeks and limited resources? Or was that tension handed on for operational managers to resolve somehow? Are they succeeding? How do you know?
A new way to work out demand
How should we measure demand? It depends on whether we have greater faith in our waiting list data, or our additions data.
How to plan against all eight RTT waiting time targets
The NHS has eight RTT waiting time targets to meet. In this year’s planning round, how can you show that you’ll achieve every one of them (even the pointless ones)?
Modelling pathway changes
Pathway changes are often the most difficult to model. We look at the best and simplest ways to handle them.
Planning: the easy, the hard, and the important
Why planning is so complex, and how you can keep it meaningful.
Why plans are always wrong
Why healthcare planning is never accurate, why we shouldn’t worry about it, and why it is still useful.
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.
Planning: coping with data errors
How to fix missing and inaccurate data automatically, and ensure next year’s planning is built on firm foundations.