Rob Findlay
Shrewsbury
Founder of Gooroo Ltd (www.nhsgooroo.co.uk), and a specialist in waiting time dynamics both across the UK and internationally. Earlier years were spent in an NHS Trust, the Department of Health, HM Treasury, and in science research.
Recent activity
Blog Posts (76)
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Commissioning Board fumbles on waiting times
The draft NHS Contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?
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Your 18 week waits: November 2012 data
The local picture on 18 week and one-year waiting times, for every English provider and commissioner, updated with the latest (November 2012) data.
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NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
Small improvements meant new record-bests for long-waiters in November.
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One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
The dramatic reduction in one-year-waiters was more down to validation than treating real patients. But it’s essential nonetheless: there were still plenty of real patients there.
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Your 18 week waits: October 2012 data
Interactive maps showing where the very-long-waiters are, how organisations fare against the “92 per cent within 18 weeks” target, and where the most clock pausing is happening. All updated with the latest October 2012 data.
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Comments (4)
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Comment on: Good nutrition can replace costly supplements in care homes
“We offer a choice of two dishes each day and two desserts, and they can also have fruit afterwards if they choose. We also use more milkshakes, and smoothies made with real fruit.” So that's dessert (added sugar), fruit (natural sugar), milkshakes (added sugar), and smoothies (lots of natural sugar) after every lunch and dinner and in between. An improvement, no doubt, on what went before. But is all that sugar really good nutrition?
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Comment on: Exclusive: GP practices' huge income variation revealed
Bexley levelled GP incomes back in 2009, moving from a price range of £59 to £158 per weighted patient to a flat rate of £75. (See June 2008 Board papers for details: Enc F at http://www.bexley.nhs.uk/About-Us/Board-Papers-2008.htm)
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Comment on: Focus on waiting list still delivering success
Anonymous 10:13am: b) is accepted, and I agree that fiddles do happen from time to time. But they would need to be very widespread and large-scale for the apparent improvements of the last 2 years to be an illusion. Do you have evidence that they are?
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Comment on: Wait control: a new system for better waiting list management
Thanks, Anonymous! We built our own discrete event simulation model, which simulates booking individual patients into slots. If you follow the link in the article to my parallel blog post, you'll find details there.
