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Health: less "R", more "D"
Much modeling is done in NHS to understand issues, but few developed solutions on offer.
I just left the Press launch for the Cumberland Initiative – an effort to bring clinicians, academics and business people together to use modeling to tackle NHS issues – especially the crisis in A&E [emergency or unscheduled care]. A great aim, but modeling has already clarified many issues for many years; ambulance scheduling, resourcing for dementia treatment, stroke-response … and emergency admissions. So it looks like we have lots of understanding, but no solutions.
To solve challenges, 3 things all have to happen:
- Research “R” – to figure out what is happening, why and trial possible solutions
- Development “D” – to develop, test, refine and codify practical solutions that will tell people trying to manage complex issues what to do under varying conditions
- Roll-out – to spread the solution to all cases where it is needed
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