Waiting lists and capacity in secondary services is a growing concern for planners – it is a priority within subnational planning processes.
A lot of work has been done around improvements to processes and flow through secondary and acute services.
However, without significant reduction in the number of people requiring these services, such improvements will only go so far.
As part of the sub-national planning ‘Planned Care’ workstream, which is looking at orthopaedics, we undertook a piece of work in collaboration with Public Health Scotland, to understand how orthopaedic demand might be managed through investment in prevention, rather than increasing secondary and acute capacity.
Check out the materials developed as part of this work:
- A population healthcare approach to planned care orthopaedics – an overview of a prevention approach to managing secondary orthopaedic demand, included likely impact
- A model for prevention – an outline of a high-level model to prevent escalation of need and secondary care demand
- Phase One Report: Mapping prevention opportunities – paper used to inform planning for upstream interventions to reduce orthopaedic demand