Capacity planning could make a difference between life and death in critical conditions. Hence it is a vital function for private & not-for-profit practices because it assists to increase the availability of highly specialised and costly resources (i.e., nurses, doctors, and advanced medical equipment) and therefore reduces waiting times.
 
The best practice capacity planning considers variables such as:

1. Service delivery capability including skills and rosters of resources
2. Patient volumes requiring medical services
3. Length of Stay (LOS) in an inpatient bed,
4. Patient flow situations during:
   1. Request for service, triage and admission (if necessary)
   2. In-patient time or service duration
   3. Discharge workflow
   4. Liaison & collaboration with external entities

We can assist you with:

1. Reviewing your existing capacity planning processes and systems and provide you with recommendations.
2. Develop capacity planning models that will best fit for your practice and the requirements of your patient population.
3. Help you develop and design optimum patient flow routes to maximise your service capability & this will include:
   1. Analyse Length of Stay (LOS) modelling and analysis
   2. Rationing of resource
   3. Discharge review – from a non-clinical perspective but in consideration of clinical aspects
   4. Demonstrate benefits of proposed models in a simulated environment
   5. If agreeable assist you implement the solution.