OPS.13:5.3 - Hospital room capacity and staffing support different counts

In a constructed routine service, two rooms are each available for four hours. One qualified team is available for four hours and each planned visit uses thirty minutes of that team’s time, including the required turnover work. The responsible clinical practitioners supply the eligible cases and the planning durations. Two visits are already committed.

Eight room-hours would appear to allow sixteen visits. The qualified-team bound allows eight in total and at most six additional visits under the normal assumptions. A supplied adverse scenario reserves one team-hour for an urgent case, reducing the plan to six routine visits in total and four additional visits.

The coordinator can propose four additional routine visits under both stated cases, obtain another qualified arrangement, or offer later appointments with the affected recipients’ agreement. A room booking alone cannot support the larger promise. The service decision preserves clinical priority and the team’s protected conditions; a changed clinical need can reopen the plan.