Here you can find details of a range of current and previously-completed HSMA projects that have their code made available in a Github repository.
Click on the preview for each project to read the full details. For many completed projects, you can watch a short talk from the HSMAs who undertook the project on their plans, successes and challenges.
Completed Projects with Code
Meeting the demand of 111 for primary care services
The project modelled NHS 111 calls triaged to primary care. Simulations showed timely primary care contact could reduce 999 calls and ED attendances but would require nearly doubling primary care services.
• NHS Devon ICB
• University of Plymouth
The role of Patient Initiated Follow-up (PIFU) and ‘Digital Outpatients’ in Supporting the Elective Recovery - Can We Better Size Potential for Clearing the Backlog?
The project aimed to explore the role of Patient Initiated Follow-up (PIFU) in addressing backlogs by mapping rheumatology outpatient pathways using discrete event simulation. The team modelled resource use and redeployment, focusing on PIFU's impact on referral-to-treatment waiting lists.
Using Discrete Event Simulation to model the bottlenecks in the Acute Medical Unit pathway
In this project, a computer simulation of the acute medical pathway in a Devon trust was created, along with an interactive tool allowing parameters such as the staffing levels to be changed. This allowed staff to explore the optimum levels of resourcing, enabling risk-free testing of staffing and resource changes before committing to these changes in the real-world.