Case Study: Northern Care Alliance achieves real-time bed management efficiency with BCN Group’s Power App solution

A game-changer for NCA’s Bed Management Team

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, a major healthcare provider, was struggling with a legacy system that could not quickly reconfigure hospital bed and bay availability during the rapid influx of patients caused by the pandemic. This created critical delays in maintaining accurate capacity records. BCN Group was brought in to develop a solution using a Power App to revolutionize this process.

BCN Group created a bespoke Bed Complement Manager application that empowered the Trust's bed management team to open and close beds and bays in real-time, directly marking COVID-19 severity levels. The solution provided an instant, accurate view of capacity, eliminating previous delays. The app was hailed as a "game-changer" by the client, greatly improving efficiency and is now being rolled out across the wider organization.

Northern Care Alliance

Jon Lawton

Head of Information Business Development Informatics and Business Intelligence