“We have used Raedfast over a number of years, to plan the building of a new acute hospital and the reconfiguration of local acute and community services. The system’s remarkable design and inherent flexibility has handled every aspect of our demanding requirement.”
What is Raedfast?
Raedfast is a modelling tool used by NHS capital and service planners.
The system integrates Activity, Finance, Workforce and Estates planning.
Raedfast operates across Acute, Community, Primary Care and Social Services provision.
Applications include —
ICS (whole health economy) reconfiguration
Trust demand and capacity modelling
Capital planning and new build
Contract planning
Who uses Raedfast?
Raedfast has been used in planning projects with multiple ICSs, CCGs and Trusts. The system is used by NHS organisations directly, or by external consultancies working in partnership.
Projects include the following …
Consultants Cliniplan have used Raedfast to help NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICS and Lincolnshire ICS to develop an ICS-wide demand and capacity model.
Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership have also used Raedfast to develop a system-wide demand and capacity model.
Raedfast and Cliniplan are helping London North West University Healthcare Trust to redesign outpatient services at Central Middlesex Hospital.
Cliniplan have used Raedfast to model demand and capacity, in order to brief the redevelopment scheme at Ealing Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, Kettering General Hospital Trust, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, Kingston Hospital Trust, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn Trust, Walsall Healthcare Trust, Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust, and Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust.
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust have recently installed the system on-site to take the model forwards using in-house resources.
Interserve Construction have used Raedfast to plan the reconfiguration of hospital services at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Trust, and at Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust.
Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust used Raedfast in-house to remodel the whole health economy, for the development of the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, scoping both acute and community services.
Raedfast was used to plan the new hospital complex for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust.
Why is Raedfast different?
A strategic plan is not one plan but the sum of many individual plans, models and forecasts. These may be population projections by the ONS, population segmentation analysis by an ICB, upper quartile service statistics from the Model Hospital, patient simulation models at clinical directorate level, pre-existing signed-off business cases for particular services, and so on.
Each of these models has (quite properly) a specific and limited focus. Raedfast does not set out to be another such exercise, adding to the pile of unreconciled plans. Rather Raedfast provides a canvass or a repository in which the conclusions from all these diverse modelling exercises can be brought together, integrated, layered and reconciled.
Raedfast is highly flexible because it does not impose its own mathematical model of healthcare.
And since Raedfast can absorb every stakeholder's plan, the Raedfast model can gain acceptance at every level of the organisation.
Visit the Features page for more information about Raedfast’s design.
Get in touch
Get in touch to discuss your needs, if you are …
a Trust or ICB looking for a tool to bring together your plans and models into a single strategic vision
a supplier of planning consultancy to the NHS looking for a powerful modelling solution adaptable to the widest range of clients and client demands
“We use Raedfast on complex demand and capacity planning projects, and the product has done everything we have asked of it. With Raedfast we can build sophisticated models much faster than before, while complex modelling issues such as moving activity between sites, and the layering of inter-related changes — which are so difficult to deal with in a spreadsheet — can be handled with ease.”