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Saving millions of lives with increased HIV testing capacity

By gifting free software licenses, Simul8 helped South African charity Shout It Now in their ground-breaking efforts to bring mobile HIV screening to youth and adults in the communities where they live.

Using simulation, Shout It Now created a robust process that saw 200 patients per day being educated, tested and directed to treatment centers. Through their work, over 400,000 people have gone for an HIV test, placing them in the path of effective treatment.

We featured on BBC Tech Life! Listen to our interview on the amazing work Shout It Now are doing using Simul8.

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Empowering charities to improve child welfare by optimizing resource planning

The NSPCC, a leading charity dedicated to preventing child abuse and supporting affected children, sought to improve its resource planning for the national helpline. Faced with increasing demand and operational complexities, the charity partnered with the Operational Research (OR) Society, AtkinsRéalis, and Simul8 to implement a simulation-powered digital twin.

“This process has helped us recognize the potential of simulation-powered digital twins and the positive impact they can have on our organization. The technology enables us to plan and allocate resources more quickly, more accurately and more effectively. We can now make confident decisions on how best to manage our resources, allowing our dedicated staff and volunteers to focus on supporting as many children, young people and the adults concerned about them as possible.”

Ross Copland, Strategic Service Manager, NSPCC

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Transforming employability support services for job seekers using simulation

WoodGreen Community Services, one of the largest not-for-profit social service agencies in Toronto, Canada, has partnered with us to increase the capacity and quality of their Employment Services program and prepare for implementation of Ontario’s Employment Services Transformation in 2024.

“Simul8 has gifted us the same advanced simulation software they provide to some of the largest industrial enterprises around the world. We can now create simulations that digitally model our services so that we can experiment with reconfiguring and optimizing them. It de-risks our process improvement strategies and is being used to identify the most efficient changes that we can make to increase our capacity. It also gives us license to experiment and find ways of doing things differently, which I believe is a game changer in helping us to shift the dial in getting more people into work.”

Sonia Goldman, MBA CAPM , Director of Employment and Skills Development at WoodGreen

Developing a free simulation to help hospitals plan Covid19 ICU capacity

Intensive care units play an essential role in the fight against Covid19. These specialist facilities provide treatment for seriously ill patients using equipment such as bedside machines to monitor heart rate and ventilators to assist breathing. But with finite resources, how can hospitals understand if they can meet demand as infection rates change?

Using our team's experience of working with hospitals plan and manage bed capacity using simulation, we developed a free simulation model to help hospitals assess how many ICU beds will be needed per week to treat critically ill patients.

Predicting critical care needs during a pandemic

In collaboration with NHS Lanarkshire, the University of Strathclyde Business School health systems experts used Simul8 to predict critical care needs at the beginning of the Covid19 pandemic.

“Once the executive team at Lanarkshire had set their key question – which was what will be your critical care need? And do we currently have the resource and the capability to meet that? – the fact that we were able to give them the answer within two weeks, and roughly seven to ten days before peak started, was vital in helping them manage this pandemic.”

Dr Nicola Irvine, consultant physician, doctoral researcher and one of the team leads in this successful collaboration.

Doubling Covid19 vaccination capacity

Simul8 was used as part of a community outreach programme as Saint Anthony Hospital sought to double its capacity for one day to provide additional vaccinations for people from deprived neighbourhoods.

“With Simul8’s help, a digital model was created to visualize exactly what would be required to upscale the vaccine rollout on the planned community outreach day. The model enabled the hospital to test and optimize everything from the number of additional registrars that would be needed to how long each vaccination should take, how to reconfigure the physical space to handle the increased capacity and how to create a safe patient flow through the system.”

Dr Eden Takhsh, Vice President and Chief Quality Officer at Saint Anthony Hospital

Optimizing the delivery of 20,000 weekly Covid19 vaccinations

In Eastern Pennsylvania, we provided Simul8 to St Luke’s University Health Network, which manages 11 different campuses, to help them optimise the delivery of up to 20,000 vaccinations a week across its network. Simul8 software helped to confirm the total patient time in system while optimizing staffing resources using the model to retain the positive patient experience and avoid a cost of $40,000 per month.

“We’ve received positive feedback from our patients on their vaccination experience, acknowledging the efficiency and organisation of our system. Our main goal when testing different staffing complements was to maintain that positive patient experience by retaining the same overall time in system. Simul8 helped us to comfortably make these staffing decisions without compromising patient experience or throughput.”

Rachel Fisher, Management Engineer, St Luke’s University Health Network

Helping the safe distribution of Covid19 vaccines around the world

Controlant specialises in cold supply chain logistics and has been working in the distribution of the Covid19 vaccine.

It needed to triple production of its specialist IoT trackers that are used to monitor shipments of the vaccine to ensure that they remain at the required -70 degrees to stay effective. Again, it was our free simulation models that demonstrated how this tremendous feat could be made possible.

Improving emergency evacuation planning

Planning for large-scale hospital evacuations in the event of destructive hurricanes and tropical storms is a year-round effort for the Louisiana Department of Health. But with limited resources, the state does not have the surge capacity to absorb patients in hospitals outside of the typical storm risk area, or ambulance capacity to be able to safely transfer patients. As a result, transferring patients from affected hospitals to facilities in neighboring states by air is the only viable solution.

Together with Simul8, the Louisiana Department of Health transformed emergency evacuation planning using simulation.

We have been shortlisted for 5 Tech for Good awards!

This year, we have made the shortlist for the 2023 UK Better Society Awards in the Pro Bono Company of the Year and Tech for Good categories, the 2023 British Data Awards in the Data for Good Consulting Initiative category and ScotlandIS has nominated us for a Digital Technology award in its Tech for Good category.

"We’re fortunate in the West where we have relatively generous resources to diagnose and treat people with HIV. When we heard about Shout it Now’s efforts to tackle this epidemic in South Africa, in communities that are far less fortunate, we felt a real responsibility to offer our support."

Laura Reid, CEO, Simul8