Elective Recovery and Theatre Optimisation
An NHS trust faced one of the longest elective waiting lists in its region with limited theatre capacity to address it.
Headline outcome
18% More cases per list
The challenge
Theatre lists were planned manually, with under-utilisation in some specialties masking long waits in others. Capacity decisions lacked a single source of truth.
“Deployed demand & capacity forecasting and theatre-scheduling optimisation across surgical specialties.”
Our approach
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Unified theatre, RTT and demand data into a forecasting model.
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Built an optimisation layer to recommend list composition by specialty.
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Embedded recommendations into weekly planning huddles with clinical leads.
The result
The trust ran more cases per list, recovered substantial elective income, and significantly reduced the longest waits — without additional theatre capacity.
18%
More cases per list
12 wks
Waiting list reduction
£3M
Income recovered
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