Service planning is a vital first step in aligning service delivery to patient demand. Effective service planning calculates the required PAs to deliver required patient outcomes.

Align’s PTL Planner helps service leads quickly answer questions like:

"If we continue with our existing PAs, what willthe PTL look like over the next 24 months?";

"Will we meet the NHS targets in January 2025?” ; and

“What will the plan look like if we invest in additional capacity using insourcing?”

Align’s PTL Planner integrates job plan information and language data from your job planning systems to model the PA requirements and provide accurate answers to these types of questions in a format that can be easily used to link to the job planning process.

The Align PTL Planner can be configured for usefor different services, including radiology, outpatient, surgey, A&E, AHP, social care, etc., with different protocols and analysis models applied based on the configuration and the use of language that is relevant to the service.

Align’s PTL Planner helps service leads easily model supply to demand using discrete event simulation that can be modelled against:

· Changes in patient numbers and the backlog.

· Changes in resource capacity.

· Different timeframes, from one month to multiple years.

· Changes in activity plans.

· Dynamic waiting lists.

· NHS PRT/RTT targets (18 – 104 weeks).

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