Understanding the WHAT and the HOW and evidencing the difference between the NOW and the FUTURE is at the heart of SHPs approach to service planning. SHP has considerable experience in:

Whole system strategic healthcare planning;
Strategic service and capacity planning;
Statistical analysis, best practice benchmarking and scenario planning;
Development and evaluation of service options;
Strategic support for organisational change management;
Clinical specifications and models of care for whole hospital facilities, clinical departments, clinical support services and non-clinical support services.

Supporting Change Agenda

SHP is able to support a range of change agenda initiatives and is geared towards establishing targets and objectives following a stepped analysis that may typically consist of clinical focus group output, wider clinical stakeholder engagement workshops, detailed activity, capacity and financial modelling and then developing a range of demand and capacity scenarios for review by both the ‘commissioner’ and the ‘provider’.

Development of subsequent strategic service, commissioning, workforce and estate plans is aimed at delivering high quality and cost effective care, optimising workforce potential and working to improve health and well-being of the local population.

Data, Systems and Scenarios

SHP are able to offer the benefit of our experience to projects based upon our understanding of health service data, information systems and complex service planning scenarios. Our extensive use of performance benchmarking data and best practice guidance and comparators combined with the successful and well proven methodologies we maintain to satisfy organisation-wide capacity planning to inform service and facility developments help to optimise the benefits of healthcare statistical analysis and scenario planning.