HOST is a user-friendly ‘Healthcare Operations Service Tool’ that blue sky information services has created in partnership with blue sky healthcare and property management partner Equity Solutions Property Services. HOST was created to provide public and private healthcare and community service commissioners with a strategic, integrated, up-to-date, accurate data set of their existing and future estate/resource capacity. It can be used inter alia to produce strategic reports, scenario test and forecasts so that our strategic partners can maximise the benefits of capacity planning quickly and easily.

The HOST service aims to help provide the most effective and efficient way of utilising healthcare and community facilities for the benefit of the local community. This is achieved by enabling a greater understanding of the existing estate and resources already and potentially available.

Features and benefits of HOST:

• HOST successfully enables its users to analyse and plan resources so that they can automatically gain a full understanding of supply and demand and thereby generate optimal efficiencies across their estate.
• HOST provides extensive property management information on each linked property/site within the specified area, walking/drive times and location mapping.
• HOST provides, inter alia and per facility, room type and number, allocation of staffing resource, current/potential usage, costs associated with both human resource and physical usage, and procedural costs via the integration of NHS Reference Tariff Costs.
• HOST allows cross reference with associated procedures and successfully combines all elements of sophisticated estate and resource planning, in one easy-to-use tool.