Patient Flow Data Workshop

Identify your emergency care metrics


Patient flow in your hospital is bad. You have a sense that data might help make it less bad. But you've already got loads of data and it isn't helping.

Patient Flow Data Workshop is an innovative, participative, hands-on way of working out what data you need to help you get to grips with patient flow.



A patient journey described by six Flowopoly-style cards. Yellow is the ED staging post. Green is the AMU staging post. Blue is for the specialty wards. When the card is a darker blue that means the patient is on the wrong ward. Note: the patient details are fictitious.

Using a mix of conventional teaching, visual props, hands-on exercises and group discussions we work out the cause-and-effect relationships within the unscheduled care system and identify the data each directorate needs to better understand and monitor its patient flow. The emphasis throughout is on the need for each directorate to be able to see its own and every one else's data.

Patient Flow Data Workshop is full-on tactile. It is grounded in the belief that if people use their hands to create graphs with felt tip pens, masking tape and tracing paper, their understanding of the data will be deeper than if they just look at data on a screen.


Patient Flow Data Workshop can be booked as an on-site workshop for £1,500+VAT, and up to 24 participants can be accommodated in each workshop session. Email info@kurtosis.co.uk to start making arrangements.