Payment for Covid Shifts

We are noticing an increase off staff not marked correctly on Safe Care but more important is the hours staff are working. Luckily with the pay information being digital, we can trace back why payment is wrong or in some cases not received at all. As per

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HealthRoster Demand Templates Covid-19

One of the most important aspects of ensuring you have the right skill mix and numbers of staff on your vaccine site is to be certain that the person building your demand templates is consistent and really understands how to construct the templates. Typically if various administrators’

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In HealthRoster Adding Annual Leave

What should you be looking out for when adding annual leave in HeatlhRoster? One of the common errors we see when visiting different NHS Trusts is that some users forget to add the annual leave hours. This impact of not adding the annual leave correctly will cause

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Create a fair and balanced work roster

Generally managers struggle to create a fair and balanced work rosters even despite having the latest workforce management software.  Why is this?  Predominantly, it’s the lack of configuration, which if done poorly from the beginning it has everlasting effects, for the users and management trying to compile a fair

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Are you ready for Medical Rostering Transformation?

For many years #NHS Hospitals have been wanting to develop the visibility of the #medicalstaffing issues, specifically to comprehend #efficiency, #agency spend and #annualleavemanagement in more detail. Working from a paper-based method denies you all the capabilities to develop a standardised job planning process, which is linked to the workforce activity. Trusts have invested a great deal of budgets in purchasing software

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Locum’s Nest launches WIN

What a great achievement by Locum’s Nest, the UK’s leading app that 30,000 clinicians use to offer their additional services to the NHS during covid-19. Alongside Microsoft, they were among the first to completely unlock their platform, giving the NHS free access to their tools. Locum’s Nest

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Reducing reliance on medical locums

Reducing reliance on medical locums

We have looked at some of the steps which medical directors could take to help reduce their Trusts spend on medical locums. It includes a list against which you can check your Trust is taking effective action and advice on where to start if you have yet

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Lord Carter Review NHS Hospitals

Lord Carter Review NHS Hospitals

Lord Carter Review The final Lord Carter report and recommendations were published on the 5 February, with specific workforce issues among its 15 overall recommendations. A review of operational productivity and performance in English NHS acute hospitals details the conclusions of Lord Carter’s review into productivity within

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