Cambridge Spark talk

[ChrisBeeley]

Abstract

Building a new NHS hospital is a major investment involving substantial public funds. Accurately forecasting future demand for hospital services is an essential first step. In this presentation Steven and Chris will describe the modelling tool that has been developed to support NHS Trusts to estimate the scale and nature of activity that their future hospitals will need to accommodate. Steven will start by setting out the key challenges and describe the conceptual model and design principles that underpin the tool.

In the second part of the talk Chris will discuss how the model went from a concept to being a live model deployed for use by hospitals across the New Hospital Programme as well as for the burgeoning set of stakeholders across other acute providers, and regional and national authorities. Chris will describe the architecture of the data processing and the reporting that have been set up to support the model as well as the way the model itself is hosted for the benefit of a diverse set of users. As well as a summary of the technical details that make up the model deployment Chris will also talk about the challenges of making significant developments to the suite of applications that make up the model while it is live and in production being used to make critical business planning decisions.

[the slides will just be the second part]