Allocate Resources
Time to Complete: 1 week
Difficulty: Moderate; requires analysis of staffing needs and financial resources
Outcome: Available necessary resources to start your project
Steps
Assess resource requirements
- Review your timeline to determine how many hours will be spent on the project.
- Review your findings on ideal panel size.
- Determine if current staff can work expanded hours or if you need to hire temporary staff until you reduce your backlog of pre-scheduled appointments.
- Determine if you need to develop a project budget to cover additional short-term staff resources.
Develop a plan to allocate resources
If additional short-term staff resources and/or financial resources are needed:
- Determine how much overtime current staff will be required to work, or how many temporary staff you will need and for how long.
- Develop a budget to cover costs of additional short-term resources.
What You Will Need
- An estimate of the number of hours to be spent on the project
- An assessment of current appointment demand and availability
- An assessment of physician capacity
- An assessment of the size of your backlog
- A project budget if additional resources are needed
Tool
If you decide you will need additional physicians until you reduce your backlog, the following AAFP resources may help: Choosing and Using Locum Tenens; Locum Tenen Agencies.
Where to Go for Help
Read the following FPM articles: "How Many Staff Members Do You Need?" and "Answers to Your Questions About Same-Day Scheduling."
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This Patient-Centered Medical Home section of the AAFP web site was supported in part by a grant from Merck & Co.
This Patient-Centered Medical Home section of the AAFP web site was supported in part by a grant from Merck & Co.
