What Norway Can Teach the NHS About Patient Flow

What Norway’s approach can teach us about system-wide coordination.

Across the NHS, patient flow isn’t failing because hospitals aren’t working hard enough. It’s struggling because demand and care pathways now operate system-wide, while operational flow is still often managed locally using fragmented processes and disconnected systems.

Leading healthcare systems such as Norway have taken a different approach. They do not treat patient flow purely as a hospital challenge, but as a real-time coordination challenge spanning the entire care pathway.

This session explores how DNV Imatis has helped operationalise that approach at scale — connecting people, workflows and operational data to improve coordination, unlock capacity and support safer, more efficient care delivery.