Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation application (SHAPE) has been developed by the Department of Health for SHAs and PCTs. SHAPE is a web enabled, evidence based tool designed to support and inform strategic planning.
The strategic planning process involves the potential re-design and improved delivery of health and social care services and supporting estate. It is aimed at SHAs and PCTs delivering service reconfiguration within a whole health economy.
It brings together existing national data sets of clinical activity, human geography and healthcare estate assets supported by Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology.
SHAPE can be used as an integral tool in the strategic planning process and addresses three key questions:
- where are we now?
- where do we want to be?
- how do we get there?
It is possible to enter directly into the SHAPE application and interrogate the information and analyses.
