87% utilisation. Good news or warning sign?


Hello Reader 87%. That's the number that came out of a planning exercise with one of the practitioners in our community recently. She was building a working arrangement with another practitioner. The plan looked straightforward: She would work three days a week. The other practitioner would work two. Between them, they wanted to fill the available clinical diary. And when we worked through the planned patient hours against the available hours, the utilisation rate came to 87%. At first...