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Managing Demand

Managing Demand covers issues related to access block, patient flow, efficiencies in bed usage, demand prediction, maximising capacity, discharge practices, reducing readmittance, and health promotion. 

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  • Brian Dolan Master Class: Why Patient Flow Matters - Using Canterbury District Health Board generally and Christchurch Hospital as a case study, this presentation described the Improving the Patient Journey programme, which has been running for three years, and outlined its impact on both performance and culture.
    (Date published: 29-Aug-2007)

  • Towards a Managed System - The aim of this workshop was to bring together a number of initiatives, tools and learnings from Clinical Services Redesign around capacity and demand management and extend the lessons into the future.
    (Date published: 23-Jun-2006)

  • State-wide Cardiology Project - Project to implement appropriate site specific solutions to enhance the patient journey, improve access to cardiology beds, reduce bed days and improve timeliness and access to appropriate diagnostics.
    (Date published: 22-Oct-2008)

  • Electronic Bed Board - The overall plan was to develop a web based information screen that would provide each hospital with the hourly bed capacity status.
    (Date published: 21-Oct-2005)

  • Sustaining Innovation and Reform - Presentation describing system reform to improve patient flow in the Hunter New England Area Health Service
    (Date published: 20-Nov-2008)

  • Hospital Substitution Care in Residential Care Facilities - This paper presents on the findings of the CNAHS Residential Care Facilities Scoping Project 2008 undertaken to investigate the barriers and facilitators and outlines the project’s recommended strategies for improvement.
    (Date published: 10-Nov-2008)

 
 
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