In 2008, SIMUL8 Corporation and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement developed Scenario Generator, a strategic simulation software tool for commissioners. A free license was provided to all Primary Care Trusts and these licenses are now being made available to all CCGs and other NHS organisations at no extra cost.
Many PCT users have already taken their licenses to CCGs and into Public Health teams in local government and you can now claim your free Scenario Generator software.
The recent statement of support for using simulation in healthcare from Lord Warner and recent projects with the Year of Care Long Term Conditions and NHS IMAS teams who are using simulation to support improvement has increased NHS interest in this technology and we would be delighted to help you to benefit from using it.
The training session below will help you get started quickly with your license.
Please let me know if you would like any further support by contacting me directly on 0141 552 6888 or clairec@SIMUL8.com and I will be delighted to help.
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Scenario Generator Training Video for CCGs
1. Using Simulation for Strategic
Planning and Commissioning:
Scenario Generator
Claire Cordeaux: Executive Director, Healthcare
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Agenda
• Who are we? – our experience
• What is simulation and why use
it?
• Scenario Generator
• Case studies
• Getting Started
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• Established 1994
• Business simulation software
worldwide
– Powerful
– Flexible
– Visual and interactive
– Fast to learn
• Specialists in health and social care
• Combine healthcare knowledge and
software development to create sector-
wide tools
SIMUL8 Corporation
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What is simulation?
Models a flow of individual patients
Small scale
operations
Service
operations
Whole system
Passing of time
Arrivals
Duration of
treatment
Time
between
treatments
Waiting
times and
bottle necks
Experimentation
What if?....
No risk to
patients
through
pilots
Results
Costs
Resource
utilisation
Waiting
times
High level flow and operational questions,
individual patient variability, graphical visualisation
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The benefits of simulation
Risk- Free
Uses data
intelligently
Increases
confidence
in decision
making
Test and
compares
potential
solutions
More
accurate than
a
spreadsheet
Models
variability
Simulates the
passing of
time
Visual-
Engages
Stakeholders
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Planning for Healthcare
How much
can I
spend?
How much
resource
have I got?
What is my
demand
likely to
be?
How long
is it
reasonable
for patients
to wait?
What are
my
expected
outcomes?
Financial Winners and Losers
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• Simulation tool for strategic planning in health
and social services
• Framework for understanding whole systems
• Default data for immediate scenario testing
• Easy to use for those new to simulation
• Developed with NHS Institute UK
• 80% of NHS England, Scotland Health Boards
Canada, Italy, US, Australia
Scenario Generator
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How the model works
Activity from demographic projections and age-
related factors influencing demand
Simulating patient journeys through a set of
services depending on need
Whole system, user-configured to represent “what
if?” questions
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Scenario Generator
Pathways
Scenarios
Whole
system
model
Simulation
results
Service
points, flows
& waits
Mental Health
Social Care
Service
models
Referral patterns
Capacity
Duration
Population
Demography
Prevalence
Prevalence/
Influencing
factors
Demographic
weighting
Population
Constrained
resources
Urgent
Planned
Maternity
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Results
• Simulation runs of up to 50 years
• Activity by service
• Costs
• Constraints (queuing)
• Resource utilisation
• Comparison of scenarios
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Benefits
• Understand whole health and social care
system flows
• Simulate impact of population change
• Segment populations/disease groups to
model expected use of service
• Test service redesign initiatives in a virtual
system to see impacts, risk free
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Example projects
Planning for
• Care and condition pathways
• Care of older people (health and social
care)
• End of life care services
• “Virtual Wards” – community services as
alternative to hospitals (Scotland)
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Click to edit Master title styleADOPTING BEST PRACTICE
East Riding PCT modelled the impact
of BNP blood test on heart failure
Saved £100k per year, national
impact, £15m
Now in NICE guidance
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County Durham – Stroke Care
Treat new patients
with preventative
drugs - cost an
extra £415,615
Treating all new
patients with
Warfarin saves
£352,414.
In five years,
savings of
over £1m
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• NHS and County Council working together
• Whole system health and social care
model
• Driven by demographics
• Testing impacts across health and social
care
Gloucestershire Case Study
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Gloucestershire adaptation
Pathways
Scenarios
Whole
system
model
Simulation
results
Mental Health
Social Care
Referral patterns
Capacity
Duration
Population
Prevalence
Prevalence/
Influencing
factors
Population
Constrained
resources
Urgent
Planned
Maternity
Older People
Learning
Disabilities
Physical
Disabilities
Social Care Post
Discharge
Reablement
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NHS Grampian – Planning
Capacity for Scanners
• What impact does demographic change
and new clinical practice have on the
potential demand for CT and MRI
scanners over the next 5 and 10 years?
• “Clinicians say we must have a new
scanner – that’s a £1m decision – and we
are in deficit – can we manage without
one?”
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Developing a model
Key steps required
to answer
questions
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Scenario Results
•Scenario 1
•Natural population growth
Scenario 2
7% (CT) and 11% (MRI)
Annual Increase
Scenario 3
New Clinical Practice +
Annual Increase
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Results: MRI Scans
Demand begins to exceed
capacity.
Queues build within the
model.
Additional capacity is
required to meet demand.
Additional capacity not
required until Year 8 –
scanners operational
7days.
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The Virtual Ward Scenario –
what?
The questions
“If we implement the virtual ward, what is the
impact on:
• Inpatient bed capacity?
• Community hospital bed capacity?
• Reablement?
• Social care?”
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Building the pathway: Urgent
care
Urgent care
admissions
over 75
Assessment
alternative to
admission for
50% of medical
inpatients
Links to social
care pathway
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Results and learning
• Understand capacity, demand and
queues:
– When queues start if finite resource for virtual
ward
– Impact on medical inpatient beds
– Cost implications
• Need to start simple
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Simulating Stable Prostate
Cancer
Start with the questions…
• How many patients require GP and
Outpatient treatments a year?
• Could this be delivered more efficiently?
• What is the impact on costs?
• Could breaches in waiting times be
avoided?
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High level pathway
LUTS
Urology
referral Treatment
Wait
Targets
2 week wait to referral
62 day wait to treatment
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Building the pathway: Diagnosis
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Building the pathway: Treatment
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Capacity constraints
• Outpatient clinic capacity– 80
appointments a week covering:
– First and Follow Up Outpatients
– Treatments
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Validating result of current state
• Data required
– Incidence data
– New prostate cancer diagnosis
– First and follow up urology outpatient
appointment and procedures
– Waiting times
– Surgery
• Local analyst and clinician sign off as
“reasonable representation”
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What if? PSA Diagnostic
Scenario
We introduced a second PSA test in primary
care?
Scenario:
• Current state – after first positive PSA all
patients referred to secondary care
• Future state – what if two thirds (instead of
one third) of patients have second PSA
test in primary care?
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What if PSA?: before
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What if PSA?: before
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What if PSA?: after
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What if? GP treatment scenario
Treatment ?
GPs carried out the 6 month PSA/QA with
LHRHa?
Scenario:
• Current state – patients have 3 monthly
LHRHa with GP and 6 month PSA/QA at
outpatients
• Future state – what if 50% of patients had
6 month PSA/QA test in primary care?
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What if GP LES for treatment?:
before
QA and PSA
performed in
outpatients
every 6 months
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QA and PSA
performed by GP
with 6 months
LHRHa instead of
in outpatients
What if GP LES for treatment?:
after
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User feedback
We will be able to demonstrate to
the PCT and GPs how a simple
change to the pathway by adding in
a second PSA test in primary care
will prevent the majority of our
prostate cancer 62 day treatment
breaches – a real issue in this
pathway where diagnostics require
a wait between them(TRUS and MRI)
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Using Scenario Generator
Step 1: What is your simulation
question?
Example: What if more community services
are available to support people with an
urgent care need?
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Step 2: Choose your pathways
• All pathways?
• Only one pathway?
• Example: urgent care pathway
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Step 4: Generate Demand
• Choose your population (note most recent
version includes CCG and local authority
populations)
• Check disease prevalence data
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Step 5: Run Scenario
• Run the scenario
• Run multiple times to get a range of
answers
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Step 6: Check and validate
results
• Volume of activity in different services
• Number of admissions, ED visits
• Is this a good enough reflection of the
actual system?
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Step 7: Test scenario and
compare results
• 10% of primary care referred to
community?
• Community nurse cost £50 a visit/call
• Impact on admissions?
• Impact on finance?
• Cost of service?
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Step 9: Test capacity
• Add Community Nurses – 50 calls per
week each
• Utilisation
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Step 10: Simulate with older
people only
• Create new pathway
• Assign population to the pathway
• Run and test results
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