THE PRACTICE LAB
Projects you can try in practice
Find a project you can do where you work: from checking access to care to reviewing missed appointments. Each guide shows you how to get started and what to measure.
14 guides found
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Make veteran-friendly care part of everyday practice
Help your team ask about service history, record it properly and offer useful follow-up.
Read the guide ↗Low code
Ask about military service and follow up reliably
Use an Accurx questionnaire to ask about service history, then make sure someone reviews and acts on every reply.
Read the guide ↗No code
Find carers and make sure support follows
Ask about caring responsibilities in everyday language and make sure an agreed offer of help reaches the person.
Read the guide ↗Spreadsheet / Python
Check whether digital triage works for everyone
Compare how patients reach a useful response online, by phone and in person.
Read the guide ↗Spreadsheet / low code
Reduce repeat prescription chasing
Find out why patients have to chase requests, then improve one avoidable step without changing clinical prescribing decisions.
Read the guide ↗Beginner Python
Analyse missed appointments with Python
Use synthetic data to calculate weekly missed-appointment rates and plan one small improvement.
Read the guide ↗No code
Take the patient’s route through your practice
Follow one common request from the patient’s first contact to the next step, and find where the route becomes confusing or harder than it needs to be.
Read the guide ↗No code / spreadsheet
Find the task that keeps coming back
Look for a small, repeated job that interrupts the team, then check what causes it before trying to automate anything.
Read the guide ↗Team exercise
Before you automate a task with AI
Use a short team discussion to decide whether an AI tool has a clear, safe job to do—and what still needs a person.
Read the guide ↗No code
Choose a small improvement and see if it helps
Turn an everyday frustration into a focused test your team can run alongside normal work.
Read the guide ↗No code
Try to get help from your practice website
Follow the steps a patient takes to find help online, and spot where the wording or route leaves them unsure.
Read the guide ↗No code
Make one patient message easier to understand
Pick one message patients often need help with, then check whether people can understand what to do next.
Read the guide ↗Spreadsheet / supervised analysis
Use practice data to answer one useful question
Start with a question the team can act on, then work out what information would answer it safely.
Read the guide ↗No code / low code
Sketch the workflow before anyone builds software
Make an idea visible with a paper sketch or simple mock-up, then see whether it fits the real work.
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