Raedfast NHS Planning
Build the future step by step
“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 ICSs and Trusts to plan healthcare services over a 1 to 30 year horizon.
Raedfast integrates Activity, Finance, Workforce and Estates planning.
The system runs across Acute, Community, Primary Care and Social Services provision, and from a high level (Commissioner, District Authority, Provider, POD) to a low level (GP Practice, individual Provider Facility, Specialty, Clinical Group, etc.).
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 Providers. 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, Lincolnshire ICS and Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership to develop an ICS-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 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?
Raedfast puts the planner in charge.
The system does not assume it knows what planning moves you will want to make. Instead, Raedfast puts the power to build and change the structure of the model right into the hands of planners, who know their business but are not technical experts. The planner can spend their time planning, and not struggling with technology.
Putting the planner in charge is achieved through Raedfast’s innovative Add, Move, Multiply design — such that the planner is able to build sophisticated, blue-sky models by repeated use of simple building blocks.
Because of this unique design, Raedfast is very fast to work with. The planner can normally deliver a default model within two weeks of receipt of data, and a tailored model within four weeks.
Get in touch
Get in touch to discuss your needs, if you are …
a Trust or ICS looking for a better tool to support your planning and modelling
a supplier of planning consultancy to the NHS looking for a powerful modelling solution adaptable to your clients’ needs
“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.”