We have supported some existing modellers to make their DES more reproducible and reusable.
Hybrid simulation modelling for orthopaedics
The model is available at:
Matthew Howells
, Paul Harper
It combines:
- A system dynamics model used to model patient deterioration while waiting for a GP referral to primary care.
- A DES model used to model the patient journey through an orthopaedic department.
It is summarised in the poster “Clinical Pathway Modelling of a Trauma and Orthopaedics Department” from the OR Society’s 12th Simulation Workshop (SW25) conference
Amy reviewed the model repository, providing the review as a GitHub issue (and an accompanying pull request). The review was structured into:
- A review summary.
- Feedback from running the code (e.g., dependency management, code troubleshooting).
- Evaluation against the STARS framework for model reuse.
- Evaluation against the STARS reproducibility recommendations.
Nurse staffing simulation
The model is available at:
Tolusha Dahanayake Yapa
Amy attempted to reproduce results in the draft paper, recording results in a GitHub issues and providing pull requests with some suggested changes.
This supported the addition of an environment file with all required dependencies, and identified a missing analysis script required for creating the paper tables.
Stroke pathway simulation
The model is available at:
John Williams (2026). GitHub. https://github.com/jfwilliams4/des_stroke_project.
A revised version of the repository is available at: https://github.com/Bergam0t/jw_hsma_des_stroke_project.
Working alongside Sammi Rosser , Amy has been contributing to improvements of the model repository. This includes testing, documentation, further analyses, and more.
This page was written by Amy Heather and reflects her interpretation of this work, which may not fully represent the views of all project authors or affiliated institutions.