Some years ago I was a member of the IProdE. Do you remember The IProdE? Yes Production Engineers. Do they still exist? I'm interested in Service design in the NHS and the nearest engineering equivalent I can think of in Production Engineering. I'd love to hear from any Engineers working on Service Design in the NHS.
For some context. I am Data Scientist working for a South London Mental Health Trust and currently researching multi pronged applications of Deep Learning and AI to Mental Health. My current sub project is analysing the operation challenges of running a Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
I have started my work from the NICE guidelines perspective (Find guidance | NICE) and correlated these to our internal Standard Operating Practices. These documents set out to define the optimum projected pathway for a nominally standard patient. This I have found to be very far from the reality on the ground, predominately as there is no such thing as a standard patient, and for that matter a standard clinician. To date I have focused my work on deriving a rating methodology that aims to quantify the intensity of a given patient, factoring in multi dimensions such as Acuity, Demographics, History, Need etc, all quite difficult to accurately assess and weight, and all with highly complex interaction within the model..
Additionally we have looked at key bottle necks in the smooth and efficient flow of patients through the various pathways, leveraging things like waiting lists, Demand and Capacity Models and Delivery Patterns. So far we have used common flow diagramming but I am investigation the use of Graph Database techniques and Complex Network Analysis to help provide insight to these time series events.
I would be very please to discuss further and if parallels exist in our research we could potentially present a proposal of some collaboration to the trust Ethics Committee for a research license. This is required due to the sensitivity of the data being mined as I am sure you will appreciate.
Looking forward to hearing more from you and other on the forum.
For some context. I am Data Scientist working for a South London Mental Health Trust and currently researching multi pronged applications of Deep Learning and AI to Mental Health. My current sub project is analysing the operation challenges of running a Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
I have started my work from the NICE guidelines perspective (Find guidance | NICE) and correlated these to our internal Standard Operating Practices. These documents set out to define the optimum projected pathway for a nominally standard patient. This I have found to be very far from the reality on the ground, predominately as there is no such thing as a standard patient, and for that matter a standard clinician. To date I have focused my work on deriving a rating methodology that aims to quantify the intensity of a given patient, factoring in multi dimensions such as Acuity, Demographics, History, Need etc, all quite difficult to accurately assess and weight, and all with highly complex interaction within the model..
Additionally we have looked at key bottle necks in the smooth and efficient flow of patients through the various pathways, leveraging things like waiting lists, Demand and Capacity Models and Delivery Patterns. So far we have used common flow diagramming but I am investigation the use of Graph Database techniques and Complex Network Analysis to help provide insight to these time series events.
I would be very please to discuss further and if parallels exist in our research we could potentially present a proposal of some collaboration to the trust Ethics Committee for a research license. This is required due to the sensitivity of the data being mined as I am sure you will appreciate.
Looking forward to hearing more from you and other on the forum.
