System and Service Planning
Our Core Planning Expertise
At Pathfinder Health Consultancies, we empower healthcare organizations to thrive in an evolving landscape. We deliver strategic solutions for your most critical systems and services, grounded in collaborative planning and cutting-edge insights.
System Reviews
We provide comprehensive system reviews, integrating horizon scans, best practice literature, and jurisdictional analyses of exemplary service models. Our approach explores diverse stakeholder perspectives through broad-ranging consultation and advanced survey techniques. We conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses, using options analysis and scenario modeling to explore future state opportunities. Our findings are distilled into clear, succinct, and actionable reports.
Service Planning
Pathfinder Health Consultancies offers extensive experience in service planning for metropolitan and rural health services. Our robust plans are built on a strong evidence base, including population health and demographic analyses, social determinants of health, and current and future service utilization trends. We use scenario modeling of service utilization and capacity modeling to collaboratively explore multiple planning options with our clients. Gap analysis and consideration of exemplar models of care guide the development of innovative and sustainable pathways.
Strategic Planning
We apply collaborative methodologies to assess your current state and identify innovative, evidence-informed strategic priorities. Through co-design, we actively engage key stakeholders in the planning journey, developing relevant and responsive strategic directions with targeted objectives, all supported by an implementable roadmap tailored to your context.
How We Help – Our Specialized Capabilities
Our expertise extends across a range of specialized capabilities designed to drive transformative outcomes.
Workforce Planning
We deeply understand the drivers of workforce demand across clinical disciplines and the factors influencing supply pipelines. We explore future opportunities for more effective and efficient health service delivery, supported by a sustainable and capable workforce.
System Planning
We apply systems thinking to policy and program development, utilize robust analytics, and engage widely with stakeholders to generate integrated and holistic solutions.
New and Innovative Models of Care
We undertake evidence-informed horizon scanning to assess innovation potential, build upon existing strengths, and overcome current challenges. Our co-design processes ensure active stakeholder participation in the discovery and distillation of future models that truly resonate.
Quantitative Analysis
We apply robust analytics to quantitatively assess diverse and large data sets. Our findings are summarized to provide relevant, meaningful, and actionable insights.
Stakeholder Engagement
We engage responsively and respectfully with the diversity of stakeholders relevant to each project. We employ advanced facilitation techniques and dynamic interview styles to thoroughly explore all views and perspectives.
Service Planning
We implement robust methodologies to understand community needs and thoroughly analyze service planning requirements. We effectively engage with stakeholders and develop future-focused service plans at regional, area, and entity levels.
Strategic Planning
We employ advanced strategic planning methodologies to explore current state dynamics and identify future opportunities. Our co-designed planning processes establish realistic and innovative priorities, underpinned by implementable objectives appropriate to your unique local context.
Population Health Planning
We conduct detailed demographic analyses and assess social determinants of health to provide comprehensive reviews of current and future population health needs.
Qualitative Analysis
We utilize various techniques to gather and interpret rich qualitative data from stakeholder feedback. We distill the range of issues into clear thematic summaries with a compelling narrative.
Scenario Development
We develop detailed scenarios and model various options to explore alternatives and identify future opportunities, providing clear pathways for decision-making.