SIMUL8 or Scenario Generator?
Scenario Generator was created to support strategic capacity planning. It uses SIMUL8 technology combined with accurate health and social care data. Scenario Generator allows you to simulate the whole of your health and social care system. But when use Scenario Generator and when use SIMUL8?
Scenario Generator is best for Strategic Simulations. When key high level questions need to be answered such as:
- What should our annual plan be?
- What will the impact of population growth or change in prevalence on health service demand
- What is the impact of significant system or pathway change
- What is the impact of specific change on the wider system
SIMUL8 is best for Operational Simulations optimizing the details behind regular processes and individual parts of the whole system. For example:
- Management of throughput at a clinic
- Operating theatre utilization
- Planning for winter pressures
- Managing Emergency Departments
- Improving patient discharge
- Planning for resource requirements to meet daily, weekly variation in demand
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