Improving Patient Flow

This learning report describes the Health Foundation’s Flow Cost Quality programme. It illustrates the problems created by poor and provides practical examples of how focusing on flow can improve quality, use available capacity effectively and save money.

See also NHS Institute’s patient flow, and NHS Scotland’s Quality Improvement Hub’s Patient Flow Improvement Tool.

NHS Lothian’s Improving Capacity Management and Patient Flow

Improving Patient Flow in the NHS: case studies on reducing delays