What's new in Checklist Version 7.5.1 (Released 18th Jan 2007)

Development

1. Service and filter tab: For new project files only.  Category options imported or created will be listed.
2. Services and filter tab: Filter selection refresh doesn’t now require other tab selection.
3. Results print out:  DQ!! Will appear at the column head where data quality is flagged as an issue.
4. Change time units:  This will now only apply to filtered in services.
5. Note boxes:  All note boxes now have the global change function.
6. Future and Model tab - Extra upstream activity:  This can be set to null both globally and individually
7. Future and Future Demand tab – Growth method:  This now has a global change option.
8. Future and Future Demand tab – Growth value:  For all methods this now allows negative values.
9. Urgency wizard: allows week time band selection in combination with the monthly benchmark data.  Caution time unit selection doesn’t alter benchmark banding time lengths which are fixed at 1 month and 3 months.
10. Future and Model tab - Extra upstream activity:  The selection of streams is now left to the user.  This allows one stream to be selected if that is all you require.

Clarification

1. Setting a service to non waiting list excludes the waiting list size from the projection calculations.
2. The second set of “Extra upstream activity” cells can be globally changed from the tools menu under edit and global change.  You must first place the cursor in one of the second set of “Extra upstream activity” cells.

Checklist Version 7.5.0 (Released 07 March 2006)

New functionality:

1. Transfer / New care pathways function
2. Global change applied to all scenarios
3. Global calculation of extra upstream activity
4. New future demand growth options
5. Export reconciliation data from Data Quality
6. Acceptable data quality tick box which leads to a warning in projections results
7. Export table of data on waiting times etc from Shapes results
8. Global change time units
9. Delete a block of services
10. Global change % inturns on the list management tab

Using the results:

1. New Projections layout
2. Scenario comparisons in projections results
3. New activity plans (within available funding/ resources, keep up with demand)

Navigation:

1. New Filter screen
2. New Edit/Create screen
3. Redesigned tab structure

Data import:

1. Changes to the raw data templates – new cost field, more help with adding data
2. Blanks within category fields in raw data handled
3. Option to global change mapping option to <ignore> during import wizard

Help:

1. Quick user guides accessed by clicking a button on the Home page
2. Explanatory presentations and documents from the Home page

Checklist Version 7.4.1 (Released 13 January 2005)

Major improvements

The use of special rules has been incorporated into the Prepared Data import. A new option "<special rules>" is now available in the "Unused Categories" section of the wizard.

The Prepared Data import now supports a new option "<all>" in the "Unused Categories" section of the wizard which will copy values to all sub-services.  

Minor improvements

A new theatre utilisation factor has been added to the theatre data entry tab.

A new Favourites tab has been introduced onto the Filter form with facilities to add and remove filter configurations to a favourites list.

A new button has been added to the Shapes results screen which displays a table of chart data, sortable by any column and which can be copied to the clipboard for pasting into other applications.

The Help text in the Prepared Data import wizard has been updated to reflect recent changes.

Version 1.3 of the Checklist files structure document now reflects all recent changes.

Bug fixes

The problem with calculating numbers of suspended patients when using the special rules has been fixed.

The run-time error when displaying composite shapes in Shapes results has been fixed.

Checklist Version 7.4.0 (Released 27 September 2004)

Major improvements

The introduction of special rules in raw data import allowing the activity to be imported at HRG level and the additions, removals and waiting list sizes to be apportioned or calculated (see the Payment by Results tab for documents containing more information).  

There is a new finance tab and a new finance section in Projections results which shows funding and costs as needed for Payment by Results.

The speed of patient level data import has been improved.  In cases where there are many categories with many options there is an 8 times reduction in the time taken to complete the import.

Minor improvements

Scenarios are now available in the History and Historical Profile tabs.
Checklist will now save the currently selected scenarios as well as the filter settings for categories and scenarios. When a project file is re-opened these will be re-instated.
Subtotalling is now available in Profiling results.
Subtotalling is now also available in Shapes results.
Blank historical waiting list sizes are now interpreted as zero.
An error message when the IntendedPriority field in the Additions table is missing has been introduced for text import.
The urgency profile wizard now has no limit on the number of raw data records allowed.
Two new options on the right click menu for Target List Sizes. Targets can be set to the list size at the end of the historical period or that at the start of the modelling period for all filtered in services.
Bed numbers required by a service are now shown to 1 decimal place so that rounding errors will no longer produce misleading results when sub-totalling.

Bug fixes

Run time error caused by the user not having security access to alter Registry settings will not occur again (e.g. after warning message about the licence)
The problem where the next/previous page buttons were enabled whenever a chart was selected has been fixed.
The problem where a file could not be re-opened when saved after importing data with very many categories and options has been fixed.
When changes were made to the selection of a future demand scenario this was not reflected when hovering over the options button in Projections results.  This has been fixed.
Some waiting times were being displayed in hours, this has been fixed.
A run-time error caused by scenarios being shown when using the follow-on model which were filtered out in the base project file has been fixed.  The filtered out scenarios will no longer be available from the follow-on model.

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