Actively manage capacity to increase revenue and meet changing patient demand
Mobile operating theatres enable NHS Trusts to flexibly increase capacity, either to generate additional income or to manage sudden increases in demand.
Carrying out additional procedures either within or under tariff can create a surplus and the ability to deliver additional procedures in-house increases income for the Trust.
Keeping work in-house brings other financial and clinical benefits – by streamlining the assessment and post-discharge care pathway.
The benefits are:
- Control of surgery costs – mobile costs are in most cases lower than those of a private hospital
- Increase income from additional procedures in a controlled manner
- Keeping procedures in-house produces clinical and financial benefits
- Control of additional costs – dressings, surgical drains etc
- Patients continue to receive NHS care on NHS premises
- NHS Trust can continue to meet its performance targets
View our case studies: Providing additional capacity to meet changing patient demand
