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Modelling and simulating unplanned and urgent healthcare: the contribution of scenarios of future healthcare systems.
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Marshall-Ponting, A., Sapountzis, S., Smith, R., & Kagioglou, M. Modelling and simulating unplanned and urgent healthcare: the contribution of scenarios of future healthcare systems. Presented at 5th Annual HaCIRIC International Conference: Transforming healthcare infrastructure and services in an age of austerity., Cardiff, Wales

The current financial challenges being faced by the UK economy have meant that the NHS will have to make £20 billion of savings between 2010 and 2014 requiring it to be innovative about how it delivers healthcare. This paper presents the methodology... Read More about Modelling and simulating unplanned and urgent healthcare: the contribution of scenarios of future healthcare systems..

A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system
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Marshall-Ponting, A., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system. Presented at International Conference on Industrial Logistics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Unscheduled and urgent health care represents the largest area of activity and cost for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Like typical complex systems unplanned care has the features of interdependence and having structures at different scales... Read More about A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system.