The eight (8) Risk Subcategories are defined using the definitions below:
Risk Subcategory 1a (Sustained investment): Requires Quality Improvement and likely requires sustained investment to resolve imbalance.Risk Subcategory 1b (Quality Improvement & capacity stabilisation required): Requires Quality Improvement to investigate capacity stabilisation / redistribution strategies and may require sustained investment to resolve imbalance at an urgency or subspecialty level.
Risk Subcategory 2a (Booking strategy & casemix investigation): Requires Quality Improvement to investigate cause including assessment of booking strategies, urgency and case mix distribution.
Risk Subcategory 2b (Backlog strategy): Requires backlog strategy only and may require some short term investment.
Risk Subcategory 3a (On track & requires time): Excess capacity may naturally reduce overdue patients.
Risk Subcategory 3b (Quality Improvement & capacity stabilisation required): May require Quality Improvement project to identify cause, watch for leading indicators of breaches (growing unbooked risks, booked to breach). May require surge strategy.
Risk Subcategory 4a (Excess capacity): Excess capacity exists and may offer opportunities for load sharing.
Risk Subcategory 4b (In balance): Specialty in balance with no risks - requires regular demand and schedule maintenance huddles.