Beds and capacity
Flow
Keeps patients close to home.
Flow gives bed managers and clinicians a real-time view of capacity and matches patients to the right bed, surfacing in-area options first so fewer people are sent far from family for care.
The problem
Every year, patients are sent hundreds of miles from home for a bed.
Inappropriate out-of-area placements cost the NHS around £164m a year and send patients away from family at their most vulnerable. Bed managers work from phone calls, spreadsheets and goodwill, with no real-time picture of where the right bed is.
How it works
From phone-around to a real-time match.
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See capacity live
Flow shows occupancy and availability across wards and units in real time.
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Match the referral
Clinical need is matched to suitable beds, with the constraints that matter surfaced.
- 3
In-area first
Suitable in-area options are shown first; out-of-area is flagged as a last resort.
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Track outcomes
Out-of-area bed-days and placement outcomes are measured over time.
A first look at Flow.
An illustrative design, not live software. Synthetic data, and a clinician stays in control.
Real-time capacity, matching patients to the right bed and helping keep them close to home.
Capabilities
What Flow does.
Real-time occupancy
A live picture of beds across wards and units, not yesterday's spreadsheet.
Placement matching
Matches clinical need to suitable beds and surfaces the trade-offs.
Out-of-area flagging
Highlights out-of-area placements as the exception to avoid where possible.
Cost visibility
Makes the cost of each placement option visible at the point of decision.
Demand awareness
Helps teams anticipate pressure rather than only react to it.
Decision support
Equips the bed manager and clinician; it does not decide for them.
Built safe
The guardrails, by design.
- People decide, not the tool
Flow informs the bed manager and clinician. The placement decision stays with them.
- Clinical suitability first
Matching surfaces clinical suitability, never cost alone.
- Built for the real workflow
Designed around how bed management actually works, including the messy parts.
- Measured honestly
Out-of-area outcomes are tracked so impact can be evidenced, not assumed.
Regulatory position. Flow is an operational capacity tool rather than a clinical decision-making device. It is built to DSPT and UK GDPR standards and is in development. Any clinical-adjacent function is kept firmly in support of human decisions.
The rest of the platform
Flow is one of four.
Each product stands alone and grows stronger connected to the others through a shared clinical intelligence layer.
See Flow in a live demo.
We walk verified NHS and independent-provider teams through a clickable demo of the platform. Tell us about your organisation and we will set one up.
This page describes software in development. It is not a medical device and not for clinical use. Product screens are illustrative concepts using synthetic data.