Healthcare management
Capacity planning with the data a clinic already has
· Dennis Angafor
Booking systems already contain enough information to forecast demand and staff appropriately.
Clinics often believe they need a new analytics platform when the booking system already holds two years of demand data.
Extract appointments by day, hour and type. Weekly and seasonal patterns emerge quickly and are usually stable enough to plan against.
Match staffing to the pattern rather than to a uniform template. Monday morning and post-holiday peaks are predictable and routinely under-resourced.
Model the effect of a change before making it. A simple spreadsheet showing the queue under two staffing options is often decisive.
Revisit quarterly. Demand patterns shift with population, services offered and referral behaviour.
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