This process has usually involved:

• Significant stakeholder and clinical expert consultation
• International best practice and trend research
• Analysis of the market demand and supply for the services
• Integrated activity, staffing and cost modelling, including scenario analysis

Examples of service decisions that we have supported included:

• Funding of the establishment of a new renal transplant service
• Clinical planning for future growth in immune effector cell therapies
• Introduction of a single antenatal hub service for a region
• Consolidation and outsourcing of public maternity services to a regional private hospital