This model helps you to understand:

• your outpatient demand, and also the variation in demand, for your specialty
• the current service
• the core capacity you genuinely have available to see patients and the ad hoc/flexible capacity you rely on to deliver the service

The model will provide an estimate of:

• the capacity you need to meet your demand
• the backlog that may need to be cleared to sustainably deliver national, and locally agreed, waiting times standards

To use this tool you will need to have a good understanding of basic demand and capacity theory and terminology.

Supporting documents

• Inpatient model (populated)
• Inpatient model (blank)

Inpatients modelling webinar

This video is a walkthrough of the Demand and Capacity Excel model for those working within the Inpatients elective care pathway.