Improve Financial Performance in Acute Healthcare through Clinical Process Improvement. RealTime will reduce your Average Length of Stay (ALOS) with:

• Immediate results

• £millions in savings, year on year

• Return on Investment many times over in year 1

RealTime, in partnership with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is a programme of clinical process improvement developed and delivered by senior clinicians, backed up by brand new discharge planning, decision support and length of stay reduction software. RealTime's clinical consultants have a track record of over 20 years' successful performance improvement in acute hospitals, saving tens of millions of pounds year on year. Risk / Reward commercials are therefore welcome. RealTime improves quality of care and productivity through innovation in clinical process, reducing length of stay in the most clinically responsible manner possible.

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With the world in economic turmoil, the need to do more with less has never been greater. But how can hospitals save money and increase efficiency without reducing the quality of care?

Performance improvement in the form of facilities-driven, logistical and operational cost savings will help, if sensibly applied. However, non-clinical performance improvement cannot solve the impact on acute healthcare of ageing populations, winter epidemics and infection control in hospital environments with finite numbers of beds and a percentage occupancy rate at any given time in the high 90s. Many hospitals in the UK run at 97% occupancy or even higher, with every unplanned requirement for a bed becoming a crisis for all departments, causing the Operations Centre to run on an almost continual state of ‘amber’ or ‘red’ alert.

Running to stand still

An optimum operational efficiency requires a bed occupancy of around 87% in order to be able to handle planned electives and emergencies alike all year round, while also catering for unplanned disasters such as Norovirus outbreaks and major incidents. Without the ability to manage beds and wards flexibly, hospitals will forever be cancelling planned elective admissions and resorting to dangerous but unavoidable tactics such as parking patients in the wrong place, just to fit them in – a classic case of thrashing away wildly just to stand still.

Unlocking the potential

Once the non-clinical efficiencies have been found, the biggest remaining driver of financial performance improvement can only be the freeing up of bed space in a clinically responsible manner, which is itself only possible through an improvement in clinical process around admissions planning, discharge planning and discharge management.  Even switching to a 24x7 hospital ‘up time’ can only be driven through a comprehensive overhaul of discharge planning and admissions management, which is necessarily a problem domain far more clinical in nature than administrative.

RealTime

RealTime Health Ltd is a UK company based on the experience of 20 years of ‘hands-on’ clinical performance improvement in the United States. The founders of RealTime Health have been successfully reducing length of stay in a clinically responsible manner in numerous acute hospitals in the Not-for-Profit sector in the US using an established, repeatable methodology that improves clinical processes around discharge planning and management. This work immediately impacts the bottom line (doing much more for far less money), generating substantial savings and introducing quality improvements and operational efficiencies for the acute hospital on an ongoing basis.