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Winter Pressures Emergency access Getting it right for patients and staff. June 2009. So far……. Capacity and demand planning Manpower Distribution Staff availability Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and social services The system is largely predictable
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Winter PressuresEmergency accessGetting it right for patients and staff June 2009
So far…… • Capacity and demand planning • Manpower • Distribution • Staff availability • Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and social services • The system is largely predictable • Daily - weekly - monthly • Elective and emergency not elective v emergency
No buffer – not sustainable The data said... Buffered – sustainable Capacity
‘System Stress’ – Admission and Discharge Profile for all specialties
Impact of medical outliers (boarders) *Critical incidents
Later • More on predictive tools • Vulnerable groups • Elderly • Mental Health • When does acute attendance = system failure
Now - • Breakout groups • What are you going to do differently • Capacity and demand planning • Escalation • Planning has not worked • Exceptional variation(demand) • Communication – does everyone know and can and will respond • Approach • Multi-professional • Multi-organisational • Relative test • What would you want for your mother/father/son/daughter
Why do I have to wait so long ? Do our systems meet our aspirations Why can’t I get timely information about my patients before they arrive ? Why is it so difficult to find out about my treatment? Can’t our systems support the way we work? If only I had the information I need to improve performance
‘Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.‘