Healthcare

Healthcare refers to the processes involved in providing medical procedures such as surgery or the administering of medicine. These services are typically offered through a healthcare system composed of hospitals, physicians and technicians

Healthcare Challenges

To optimise the scheduling of theatres, nurses and doctors
To match the requirement for internal beds with A&E admissions and other demands
To size the staff requirements (and shifts) in A&E to match variable demand
To design priority rules on the waiting times of both the urgent and regular patients
To respond to variable demand on A&E waiting times
To size the staffing/skill/location requirements for Ambulance services to respond to patient requirements
To understand the link between high dependency beds, wards, outpatients’ resources and low dependency beds in other facilities

Simulation in healthcare is a model linking patients, queues, beds, nurses/doctors, theatres and facilities such as x-Ray. It simulates patients moving from area to area. The model can imitate aspects such as: treatment times, shifts and outcomes. Data can be based on averages, real or on a statistical distribution, resembling the expected reality.

Simulation can deal with complicated interactions

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Simulation has achieved benefits such as:

Decreased A&E queueing times by 20%
Improved ambulance response times by 30%
Increased availability of high dependency beds by 15% – through better patient journey
Designed scheduling rules for theater increasing efficiency by 10%
Arbitrated changes in work practices based on an objective methodology
Proved a proposed change will work – often a model is used just to test a proposed system

A&E Design
Theatre Scheduling
Bed Management
Resource Planning/Shift Planning
Identifying Bottlenecks
Patients Journey
Priority Rules
Linking all of the above

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