MAN: Using data to inform the role of a specialist children's hospital in the left shift - 19/02/26

Описание: MAN Huddle: 19/02/2026
Topic: Using data to inform the role of a specialist children's hospital in the left shift
With Izaak Gilchrist. Senior Analyst at Edge Health   / izaak-gilchrist  

As healthcare systems transition toward neighbourhood-based care, specialist children’s hospitals must define their role. This session presents a deep-dive analysis into the "Left Shift, the movement of care from acute hospital beds into the community.

In this Huddle I will be joined by Izaak Gilchrist who is a Senior Analyst at Edge Health and who is in the Analytics Team at the Children's Hospital Alliance (CHA) which is a national network of specialist NHS trusts working together to improve the quality, access and experience of hospital care for children and families.

Izaak will share a robust methodology for identifying potentially "divertible" patient cohorts, revealing that a percentage of all non-elective admissions across the CHA Trusts could be effectively managed in non-acute settings. By breaking down the data by age, diagnosis, and cost, this presentation provides a roadmap for how specialist trusts can lead the design of community-based services rather than simply reacting to them.

What you will learn:
· The Divertibility Framework: A methodology for identifying which patient cohorts (e.g., respiratory, seizure-related) are "primed" for community care.
· The Scale of Impact: An analysis of the annual admissions that could be diverted and the millions of pounds in variable costs associated with them.
· Strategic Intervention and "Influencing the Money"

Who is this session for?
· Data Analysts
· Service Planners & Commissioners: To understand where to allocate resources based on specialist trends.
· Integrated Care Board (ICB) Leads: To see how specialist hospitals fit into the broader "Neighbourhood" strategy.
· Clinical Leads: To understand how pathways may be redesigned outside the hospital walls.
· Operational Managers: To prepare for the potential shift in patient volume and the changing role of hospital outpatient services.