Unchartered territory
The creation of our PLICS waiting list analyser
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North East and Yorkshire, Acute
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North East and Yorkshire, Acute
The trust needs to investigate its elective waiting lists to ensure fairness, understand the consequences of patients waiting and resource requirements. Otherwise certain patients may receive inequitable delays or have to attend for emergency related treatments, plus we didn’t know what resources were required, which could jeopardise planning and our elective recovery abilities.
How can we support our trust to explore, highlight and address the challenges of improving our waiting times and the prioritisation of patients awaiting treatment, so that we can better shape and plan our elective recovery of services and pathways?
Initial deep-dives using the tool have already unearthed some startling findings which include:
These initial findings have really started to spur our trust into action. Our chief operating officer who is keen to increase the specialties engaged with the insight the tool provides, has set aside a large portion of our June 2022 senior leader’s meeting to progress the ‘now what’ as opposed to the ‘so what’.
Topics up for discussion include ‘should we be prioritising patients differently by taking into consideration their area of deprivation or ethnicity?’ and ‘should service provision change to reduce acute presentations to free up more capacity for elective recovery?’
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Innovation H3“Great idea as PLICS staff are usually dealing with costs of patients treated or after the event.”
“This innovation shows the benefits of finance teams working with clinicians to maximise the use of data.”
“I think that a focus on the resource needed to meet reduction in the waiting list is important.”
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