Demand and Capacity

Need and demand are of great importance to commissioners.

Your speech and language therapy service or department may not at the moment be able to offer the quality or scope of service that you or your clients think is appropriate. You can use data measures to illustrate the relationship between demand and capacity in your catchment area.

An example data collection format for doing this (32kb .xls)

Another way of approaching this issue is to examine and illustrate the relationship between referrals and case-loads. This can provide a handy snap-shot of how well a service is working.

Caseload summary comparison data (28kb .xls)


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