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Ed James
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ED consultant NHS Lothian, Clinical Advisor Unscheduled Care, CfSD, SQSF fellow, bibliophile and AVFC fan. Thoughts my own...
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Do you mention Little’s Law? I think it would be useful to get across the idea that for simple queues the long-run average number of patients in the system L = ρ / (1 - ρ), where ρ is the utilisation of the service. As ρ → 1 the queue “blows up”...
July 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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The idea that the problem can be tackled by actions everywhere else (to reduce demand) has been tested to death over the last decade of bad policy and has utterly failed...
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In a very very good way

Crowding down = performance up
March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Totally agree. Looks great.

The RIE data from this week is very interesting.....
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Agreed. The 'theory of flow' or 'the law of flow'? Would suggest 'the law of positive flow' but that goes against the argument that flow is binary 🤔
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
You are always going to need to explain it so why bother in the name 🤔
March 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Maybe just the 'the barbershop theorum'?
March 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Appreciate it 👍
February 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Message me and we can chat over coffee ☕

Little less clinical at the moment so have more time

Plenty to fill you in on too....
January 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM