FAQs¶

What if our hospital uses its resources differently?¶

All the activity in the input data is grouped into 'functional areas' that share particular resources (for example A&E bays are shared by both adult and paediatric patients, so would be grouped together into a functional area). This grouping is not specific to how any individual hospital uses its space and resources, but is based on the generic setup of a hospital using the Hospital 2.0 Schedule of Accommodation.

In this release, all operational and resource assumptions are set centrally and based on expert opinion. In future we hope to be able to ingest user-supplied assumptions to allow you to tailor the conversions to your hospital's specific characteristics.