Watching the caseload distribute, instead of finding out at exit interviews.
Caseload imbalances used to surface at exit interviews. A shared utilisation view turned that into a Monday-morning conversation.
We now have arguments about the right thing — capacity, not the data.
What was actually hard
The clinical lead at a 20+ therapist practice told us the same story we hear a lot: by the time she heard a therapist was struggling with their caseload, it was already an HR conversation. The numbers were in spreadsheets a couple of admins maintained, and only updated when something broke. There was no shared, weekly view of who was carrying what — so capacity surprises landed late.
What changed
Switching the team to a shared caseload view, with utilisation tracked against weekly targets, gave the leadership team a Monday-morning rhythm. Two clients shifted off the over-loaded therapist before it became anyone’s burnout. Travel patterns also showed up: two therapists were repeatedly criss-crossing the same suburbs, which the map view made obvious in a way the spreadsheet never did.
Early signal
Three weeks in, the practice manager described it as 'we now have arguments about the right thing'. The numbers settle which therapist is at 110% and which is at 65%; the meeting decides what to do about it. That is the shift — not the data, but the conversation it makes possible.
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