GP Queue Lines

[Nightrun]

Whats the secret to keep these down? I have 4 GP offices with all DR's with 1&2 training and all queue lines at 11. Always working, yet never going down.

[Nightrun]

no one has issues with this?

[TataruTaru]

I have 7, seems like most patients go back to the GP a few times.

[Amoraluv]

train your doctors and certain items help speed things along.

[Nightrun]

8 was the right number I guess of GP offices

[Khalum]

I was also wondering about this. After having played the original Theme Hospital I already knew that I'd want a few of those but after I had 5 with reasonably trained docs in them and still ~10 people in queue for each it felt a bit weird.

[Freche]

The higher level your hospital the more patients will come and visit you.

Patients visits the GP between each step during their diagnos. Thus the longer time it takes to diagnos a patient the more build up you will have to your GPs.

So once you have gained a few hospital levels make sure you have trained Doctors and Nurses that perform diagnoses so patients gets the correct diagnos in fewer steps.

Note: Having correctly trained diagnostic Nurses and upgraded diagnostic tools are also important to keep down the GP queues.

[Nefai]

1. Patient sees GP. If 100% Diagnosis, then Patient goes to Treatment.
2. If Patient gets <100% diagnosis, they proceed to secondary diagnosis.
3. After secondary diagnosis, Patient returns to step 1.

We have massive queues because so many Patients have to return to the GP multiple times.

[Art1985]

I have now 6 GP offices (lvl 5) and doctors specialized on that work, and only now I got queue around 6 patients on every GP office. At the start I build 2 of them and had situation where I had 24 on one GP office. And even when I got all prices to +50% and GP tp +100% I still had long lines and had to kick those who were going to die.
Also I now have 3 psychiatric wards. They also had long lines before.

[Nefai]

Watch every time a patient leaves and see how many of them get 100% first try.

[Art1985]

Originally posted by Nefai:

Watch every time a patient leaves and see how many of them get 100% first try.

I know that and my doctors have level 3 specialization on GP office work who are working there, I will train them more when I will have a chance. On some patients they get 100% diagnosis, on other less, it depends... I have all doctors specialized on their specific work.

[Nefai]

Once they are level 5 specialization it will be better. Until then mooooore GP offices lol.

[Kotli]

The thing is the queue is everyone waiting for that type of room. That is a queue of 10 and 5 GP rooms is the same as a queue of 2 for 1 GP.

[Talon Rose]

There isn't really a problem here as much as a chance. Looking at people saying they need 8 I do feel it's a TINY BIT excessive perhaps?
But in the old TH you had this loop :

GP => Diagnosis => Cure
or
GP => Extra Diagnosis => GP => Cure

Most patients wouldn't go back to the GP's office so frequently as they do in this game. Staff skill affects how much diagnosis you get done - also machine levels - so they might end up visiting the GP's office 3 to 5 times if you're unlucky before they can THEN be sent on for treatment. That's a lot.

[Talon Rose]

^^^ Okay, if these numbers aren't exaggerated anywhere, this is definitely a "needs to be fixed" thing.
Patients is nice, income is good. But that just seems like a totally unreasonable tide O_O. Like, you actually do would need 2 full expansion wings *just* for GP'S offices to handle things?!

[Orion Invictus]

I fixed it just fine with careful planning of the hospital's layout.