Selection of clients assignments

 Local Government Association and NHS Confederation (2003)
  • Model Development - Constructed a simulation model for commissioners in health and social care. Its purpose was to users to test their thinking, in order to develop more robust plans and strategies, and advance the whole system aims of the community.

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    National Institute for Mental Health (North West Region) (2004 - ongoing)
  • Model development - Constructed a simulation model of the NICE guidelines for depression that enabled stakeholders to test various commissioning strategies before implementation of the guidelines. This model is to be developed into an set of ongoing commissioning resources to enable local teams to develop more robust commissioning and workforce strategies.
  • Depression collaborative - we are utilising the simulation model as a key component of a action learning focussed depression collaborative. The collaborative will bring together key stakeholders and enable them to test their strategies and implementation plans via the simulation model before physical making service changes.

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    Adult Learning Disabilities Lambeth Social Services (2004 - ongoing)
  • Model development - Constructed a simulation model of learning disabilities services that enabled stakeholders to test various financial improvement strategies before implementation. The model also enabled stakeholders to test resource allocation options for internal processes with the aim of extracting efficiency gains
  • Project management - scoping and delivery on process improvement project based on recommendations driven by modelling outputs

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    Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Team (2005)
  • Model Development - Constructed a simulation model to enable strategic level system capapity issues to be interrogated. The model focussed on patient flows through and across the whole system of care and was used to supoprt key decisions relating to capacity investment, shifting and dis-investment.

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    The Potential of System Dynamics
    NHS Confederation Leading Edge Briefing Paper

    This paper, co authored by Professor Eric Wolstenholme describes the potential for System Dynamics in the Health and Social Care environments. It describes that in order to make significant changes in complex adaptive organisations it is necessary to think differently and test ideas before use. The articles key points include:
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    • works along pathways of care which cross organisation and sector boundaries complements existing planning tools such as spreadsheet models or actuarial analysis.
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