Four disciplines, one child, and a window between the school bell and bedtime.
Paediatric therapy is the hardest scheduling problem in the building. A child with cerebral palsy may need physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and psychology — coordinated, ideally in one visit, inside the two hours a parent can actually attend.
Every appointment costs a family a school day.
Book the four disciplines independently and the family drives in four times, or the child misses four mornings of school. Book them badly together and there is a ninety-minute gap in the middle with a tired six-year-old in a corridor.
Add the constraints that are non-negotiable in paediatrics: the same therapist wherever possible, a sibling in the waiting room, an interpreter, a hoist-equipped room, a school-holiday intensity block, and a safeguarding flag that changes who may be present.
- —Multi-discipline visits scheduled as four unrelated appointments
- —After-school slots oversubscribed while mornings sit empty
- —Continuity of therapist broken by rota changes
- —School and community therapists working from a different plan
Three areas of the platform carry this.
The rest of the product is present and dormant. These three are the reason you would move.
Linked multi-discipline blocks
Four disciplines booked as one contiguous block with a stated maximum gap, one room where possible, and a single confirmation to the family. Move the block and everything inside it moves together.
Family-constraint scheduling
Travel time, school hours, sibling appointments, parent working patterns, interpreter language and transport eligibility are constraints the planner honours, not notes in a comment field.
Continuity and safeguarding rules
Preferred-therapist continuity is weighted in allocation; safeguarding flags control who can be scheduled, who may attend, and what is visible on the family-facing portal.
What your tenant hierarchy looks like.
The child, not the appointment, is the scheduling unit — a shared plan across hospital, school and community teams.
Numbers, with the assumptions attached.
Modelled on a paediatric service running 96 therapists across one campus and three community hubs, with 61% of active children under two or more disciplines.
- One linked block
- Maximum gap enforced
- Continuity weighted in allocation
- One plan, shared with school
These are modelled figures, not a named customer result. Every input is stated so you can substitute your own; where a range is meaningful we publish the sensitivity rather than a single confident number.
Bring one week of real demand to a demo and we will rerun the model live on your data.
See what it costs →The questions this room always asks.
Blocks are proposed, with the reason and the family constraint visible. A therapist can decline; the planner then shows the next best arrangement and what it costs the family in travel.
You may be more than one of these.
Bring one complex child's term of appointments.
We will rebuild it as linked blocks and count the school days it gives back.