Seeing further ahead

With a few extra sessions, the service managers swear they can cope with the bed pressures and meet the targets this month. But are they on course for next month, and the month after? How can you tell? Can you assure the Board?

Blog posts

The perfect partners: whole-hospital planning without breaches

  • April 21st, 2016

  • by Rob Findlay

Lower costs, more activity, and less fire-fighting. That's the power of planning electives and non-electives together, to achieve access standards for both, right across the hospital.

Gooroo Planner upgrade: tactical activity planning for operational managers

  • November 26th, 2019

  • by Rob Findlay

Now you can edit week-by-week activity directly in the Profiling screen, and watch waiting times rise and fall as you work. This and other goodies in the latest upgrade.

The hare, the tortoise, and restoring 18 week waits

  • June 27th, 2018

  • by Rob Findlay

The money's on its way, and the government wants to restore 18 week waits. Waiting list initiatives have a proven track record, don't they? And so did Aesop's hare.

“I need our long-wait trajectories for a meeting tomorrow!”

  • November 27th, 2017

  • by Rob Findlay

A long-waits forecast that was accurate down to the last patient? Yes, and two months running too. We'd be the first to admit there was a lot of luck in it. But you have to be shooting pretty straight to get that lucky...