The group conducting the Section 136 SSA produced a simple process map of the process of admitting a young person to the mental health unit. To do this, they used sticky notes to represent the main parts of the process. This allowed flexibility in rearranging the parts of the process and adding parts in as members of the workshop suggested them.
Most of the sticky notes were arranged in sequence, representing the main flow of events. Some of the notes were placed alongside, indicating subsidiary activities that the group did not decide to include in the main flow. Key parts of the map were redrawn in diagram form to make it easier to read and follow, as shown on the right.
The process map was kept simple as this was felt to be adequate given the scope of the SSA. In this SSA, there was no need to break down each of the main steps into sub-steps.
Information about how to produce a map of a system is provided in the Guide section: Describe system.