Talk about reinventing the wheel. This is what we did years ago. When I was on call as the receiving person for the medical team in the late 1980s I used to go round all the wards in the morning finding out how many beds they had and how many discharged were happening so I could work out how many beds I had to play with. Then they introduced a bed manager who would come and see me 2 hours later to tell me the same thing except she didn't take into account who was going home and the sex to tell me I only had 3 beds instead of 15. Really she was a waste of space and when I needed her to find me a bed if we were full she couldn't do it so I would have to do it.
We also accepted referrals direct to speciality which meant the chest infection came straight to the medical team and not to the ED doctor who was busy with other stuff. The possible appendix went to the surgeons. It did streamline it a bit. Obviously things are much busier now due to population growth but we have more people in the hospitals too. I also didn't wait for results to come before admitting to the ward as I usually had an inkling what was going on.
It's good to see some common sense being applied