NHS Education for Scotland: Capacity calculator

Summary

This is a simple tool that helps you to understand the time you have available for your main work activity, e.g. seeing patients or managing a service. It is an excel spreadsheet that calculates this for you if you enter the time spent on various activities.

When analysing and planning capacity, it’s important to look at time available for people to do the work required. This means understanding how much time people can actually spend on the required tasks. The tool provides a helpful way to understand this for individuals and teams and therefore can help plan work and improve productivity.