Designed to make healthcare professionals lives better

HealthRota is built directly from our user feedback, ensuring we always provide the features that our users need.

NHS ESR Integration

HealthRota’s seamless integration with Electronic Staff Records (ESR) boosts efficiency and ensures the sharing of accurate, up-to-date information
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Connecting NHS digital systems and promoting interoperability is crucial for collaboration between systems and organisations, resulting in efficient processes and ensuring data consistency.

HealthRota is dedicated to open integration, as demonstrated by our seamless integration with NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR). Streamlining processes and eliminating duplicate entries enhances overall efficiency and ensures the sharing of accurate, up-to-date information.

Integrate ESR directly with the HealthRota platform to minimise administrative time by:

Secure and automated information transfer

This eliminates the need for manual file transfers, ensuring a seamless and automated process in a secure application environment.

Two-way data sharing

HealthRota provides realtime rostering integration with ESR for both inbound and outbound interfaces.

Configurable data

Departments can define the frequency and scope of the data shared by ESR. ESR static files can be imported directly into HealthRota to create records, ensuring accurate data mapping and transfer.

Customise payroll files

Define and create separate payroll feeds to meet your staffing group requirements such as weekly for Locum doctors and monthly for Agenda for Change Staff. Leverage the The HealthRota integration with ESR to reflect the roles and responsibilities within your organisation.

Attendance files

HealthRota’s integration with ESR ensures absences and attendances are reported accurately.

Manage your bank system

HealthRota solutions have the functionality to send attendance files directly to ESR from the respective platforms to ensure Locum shifts, pay breakdowns, and overtime shifts are correctly paid.

To sum up, electronic workforce integration with ESR will simplify your processes, ensures accurate data capture and transfer, and reduces duplication of effort, saving time and money.
Electronic Rostering

Create responsive rotas to manage changing needs and clearly see where essential shifts need to be filled.
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The HealthRota Electronic Rostering module offers so much more than traditional spreadsheets and rotas. Create happier working environments with greater job satisfaction, higher staff utilisation and greater flexibility in workforce management.

Whether you want to roster entire departments, or empower staff to swap, fill absences or manage their own working patterns in real-time, HealthRota simplifies and manages every part of the process – giving you one less thing to worry about.

Complete Transparency

Empower staff with transparency and the ability to view their working requirements and any work completed in real-time.

Manage Absence

Easily record and manage all types of absence in a customisable platform to ensure your staff are managed your way.

Auto Rostering

Simplify administrative tasks by generating rosters in seconds from job plans or existing templates and rolling rota patterns.

Compliant with Regulations

Ensure rosters are compliant with Working Time Regulations or any NHS contract with compliance checks integrated across the platform.

Enable Self Rostering

Create a happy workforce, better staff retention, less rota gaps and less absence. Share the workload of rota planning with staff and reduce the complexities of workforce management.

Manage Annual Hours

HealthRota calculates the total number of hours or programmed activities (PAs) required to be worked (annualisation) offering professionals the flexibility to complete hours around their own commitments.

Swaps

Taking time off has never been easier. Empower staff with the flexibility to swap their shifts while keeping the roster complaint and reducing the administrative burden for managers and coordinators.

Increase Visibility

Customise and view rotas and data in the way that works for you. Permanently view rotas in real-time and reduce the need to print various rotas for the pin board.

NHS Focused

We work closely with the NHS to ensure that the HealthRota e-roster system aligns with the specific needs and requirements of NHS services.

Feedback on e-Rostering

This is a very attractive feature when recruiting consultants to our department. I am constantly asked about it by other departments and colleagues in other hospitals. We are in a specialty that is prone to burnout, traditionally under-resourced, low status and with a high emotional burden. It makes a massive difference for those who are full-time clinical but also for those part-time or clinical academics as it allows flexibility and ensures fairness across the rota. It has really changed things for the better – our full-time consultants now consistently get one day-off per week. This has never happened before HealthRota. Our previously very understaffed department is now much better staffed than neighbouring Trusts’ and I think this is (at least in part) down to the implementation of HealthRota for our consultants.
Consultant Geriatrician, RSCH
The use of an app that both fairly and clearly allocates shifts is vital. I have previously had rota patterns go wrong and ended up working extremely unfairly and software like HealthRota reassures me that the system is fair and it is easy to get study leave off.
I was able to ensure I had my wedding off this year! If I had not been able to do this, I would have had to locum for a year as I couldn’t guarantee the time off in any other job.
I like HealthRota – mainly because I can see who else is on with me for that day, or when I have to hand the bleeps over in the morning (or collect them from the night shift reg) I know who to contact. Similarly, if on a weekend then I know who will be about.
HealthRota and the flexibility/annualisation and transparency that comes with it, the work/life balance my colleagues experience following the introduction into our department have all been instrumental in recruiting recently appointed new consultants and current senior registrars being attracted to working at RSCH/PRH and applying for jobs in the near future.
I like that there is a large amount of functionality under one platform. As a Rota Coordinator, this helps me do everything I need to in one place. Authorising leave, flagging shifts to fill and more involved processes like generating templates for rotations is all easy to do. I have used other rostering platforms in the past and find HealthRota more adaptable to my needs and simple to use.
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Job Planning

Create fully customisable NHS e-Job Plans from anywhere—quickly, efficiently, and at scale—to meet the evolving needs of your organisation.
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HealthRota’s e-job planning module allows NHS organisations to deploy the workforce in a way that maximises patient outcomes and staff satisfaction by ensuring that the right staff with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time.

From fixed to flexible variables, record, manage and sign-off every aspect of a healthcare professionals’ working requirements including their travel needs. NHS trusts can also link all variables to shifts and reach the levels of attainment as set by NHS England.

Automatic Calculations

Use a responsive solution to get quick real time calculation changes to your job plans

Auto Rostering

Turn your job plan into individual and shared rotas to increase transparency and improve rota management

External reporting

Integrate your job plans into Power BI to get comprehensive reporting of your trust job plans or export into Excel

Auto Tracking Integration

Track the actual individual output from each job planned user to help shape any future job plan discussions

Clash Counting

Receive feedback on the validity of each job plan, where clashes have occurred, and how to fix them

Collaberative Approach

Use HealthRota to work together with the staff member by allowing them to validate their own job plan on the system

Consultant and SAS job planning

Streamline your clinical job planning process across your trust for both consultant and SAS doctors

NHS specific

Work with a system that has been developed specifically for the purpose of NHS job planning with NHS guidlines at the forefront of the product

Looking to further explore our job planning solution?

Get in touch with the HealthRota team to request a demo and learn more.
Activity Management – Surgery and Anaesthetics
HealthRota’s Activity Management Module is a powerful rota management tool designed to simplify and streamline team scheduling across NHS trusts using a combination of centralised team schedules and job plans. Whether you’re managing a Surgery Rota, Anaesthetics Rota, or planning rotas across other specialties, our module brings everything together in one easy-to-use platform.
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Manage Surgery and Anaesthetics Rotas Seamlessly

HealthRota provides a shared scheduling environment to improve coordination between Surgery and Anaesthetics teams.

For Surgery Rotas:
Centralised theatre schedules

Real-time tracking of absences and gaps

Prioritisation of emergency cover

Maximise Theatre efficiency as per the NHS England handbook
For Anaesthetics Rotas:
Oversight across multiple subspecialties

Better planning of theatre and non-theatre activities

Efficient allocation of anaesthetic resources
Trust-Wide Location and Resource Management

Using our intuitive Location Tree, trusts can set up and manage multiple hospital locations, reducing double bookings and maximising resource use.
Assign rooms, theatres, and clinics across departments

Avoid scheduling conflicts

Know exactly where your team is working

Mobile app access for on-the-go updates
Streamline Job Planning and Team Scheduling

Our system integrates Job Planning directly into rota creation. Furthermore, activities such as clinics, theatres, and ward rounds can be scheduled into shared rotas with ease.
Align clinical activities with job plans

Roster consultants, resident doctors, and Agenda for Change staff into the same activities

Improve training opportunities for resident doctors

Reduce complexity in rota management
Scalable Across All Specialties

Our activity management module isn’t just for Surgery Rotas and Anaesthetics Rotas — it’s built for trust-wide implementation across the NHS to centralise the management of your workforce.

Departments that benefit include:
Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Radiology

General Medicine

Paediatrics
Locations

Build dashboards of the key locations that are relevant to you and your team. Theatres, Outpatients, Diagnostics or any other rooms or mobile assets

Safe Staffing Levels

Auto-generate staffing levels for the type of Activity; accounting for Job Grades as well as Skill Mixes and Competencies

Integrated Workforce

Manage your workforce at the trust level, whether that be Consultants, Doctors in Training or Agenda for Change staff, they can all be rostered together within the activity management tool

Single Source of Truth

Create a place where Workforce Managers, Theatre Managers, Staffing Coordinators can access and build Dashboards relevant to the staff and locations they manage

Absence

Linking directly into HealthRota’s e-Rostering, instantly see where sickness, planned or unplanned absence impacts on the scheduled Activities

Fully Integrated HealthRota Rostering

Leverage all the tools of HealthRota’s e-Rostering suite. See Availability from Self Rostering, Resident Doctor work schedules and Agenda for Change rotas

Auto Rostering

Build Activity Plans for Teams and Individuals and allow the system to populate Activities with Job Plans

Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Schedule any mixture of Specialties and Job Grades to built the right team

Clear Scheduling

Let staff members accurately see where they are working, who they are working with and in what location, online or direct to their mobile

Surgery Rota

Simplify the creation of your surgery rotas by team planning and rostering your job plans to produce coherent schedules

Anaesthetics Rota

Streamline your rotas by integrating surgery schedules and rostering anaesthetic job planned activities – all in one place

Job Planning Integration

Roster your Job Plans into the activity management module and convert activity plans into job plans automatically

Centralised Theatre Schedule

Optimise planning across teams by creating your centralised theatre schedules

Reporting Capability

Report on your theatres and clinics to understand your planned vs actual activity output. Utilise our excel downloads, reporting API and/or custom Power BI adapter for in depth reporting functionality

Temporary Staffing Functionality

Offer out gaps to your substantive and bank staff using the HealthRota locum bank so gaps within your activities are filled quickly with the correct staff roles

Ready to transform how you manage your activity rotas?

Get in touch with the HealthRota team to request a demo and learn more.

Feedback on Activity Management

I enjoyed the flexibility that the HealthRota app provided. For the first time in my career was i able to have annual leave when i wanted it without complex rota swaps. It definitely made my working life better!
The use of an app that both fairly and clearly allocates shifts is vital. I have previously had rota patterns go wrong and ended up working extremely unfairly and software like HealthRota reassures me that the system is fair and it is easy to get study leave off.
HealthRota has allowed me to have a much better work/life balance while pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine. It is refreshing to have much more control over when you work and how you fill your hours with self-rostering and HealthRota. I got married during my attachment in ED and there was minimal hassle getting the stag, wedding and honeymoon off. This would have been a nightmare without HealthRota. As well as ensuring departmental safety, I believe systems like HealthRota will reduce personal burnout in ED and increase job satisfaction.
This is such a great system – I have received 100% of the annual leave and unavailable days I have requested in both my clinical fellow job and my current training job. It makes such a difference not feeling that sense of dread when trying to get annual leave granted for important life events and marking unavailable days where you actually want your zero days is so much better than having them randomly allocated to days that are not useful. It is an excellent system and a massive selling point.
The HealthRota app is easy to use, makes getting desired time off easier and improves overall doctors’ morale compared to other rotas I have used.
The HealthRota app is very user friendly. By making rotas visible across specialties, it allows easy communication between teams and safe allocation of staff. In addition, and particularly important for Doctors in Training, it makes requesting leave simple – a task that’s never been straightforward when using different processes in previous Trusts.
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Locum Bank Module

Create and send locum job offers in 3 simple clicks from one integrated platform. Then accept, view and manage confirmed posts as needed.
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Streamlining and helping you manage NHS bank staff easier with our integrated Locum Bank Module. Engage the workforce by supporting flexible working and maintain a safely staffed rota.

This module makes managing locum professionals efficient and effective, ensuring the right candidates are matched with the right jobs and simplifying the administrative process.

Automate your staff bank by:

Creating Locum Offers directly from the Rota

Eliminates the need for multiple spreadsheets and cumbersome paper processes

Targeting Jobs to Skills

Add an unlimited number of users to your staff bank, ensuring that individuals with the appropriate experience and skills receive the job offer.

Empowering Your Staff

They have full visibility of the available locum shifts alongside their regular scheduled working commitments. With the simple push of a button staff can select the shifts that suit their busy lifestyles

An Intuitive Mobile App

Users can view, apply and manage their locum shifts within the HealthRota app

Providing Transparency

Administrators can see exactly who as applied alongside the relevant information about the shift in real time. With access to a pool of people with the right skills, choose the candidate that is right for you.

Access to Compliant, Appropriate staff

HealthRota’s live integration with professional bodies such as the GMC ensures you are choosing candidates with their relevant registration and suitability to work.

ESR Integrated Digital Timesheets

Reduce the reliance on paper timesheets by sending data directly to ESR or create digital timesheets ready for payment.

Report on locum usage in a data warehouse

Leverage our reporting API to gain valuable insights into temporary staffing data.

Enhance and supercharge your staff bank and minimise the need for last-minute calls for shift cover and rotas with unfilled gaps. The HealthRota solution ensures a flexible, empowered, and autonomous workforce.

HealthRota is live with direct integrations with leading temporary staffing solutions and with our commitment to open integration we can support your team to connect to your external supplier of choice.

Feedback on the Locum Support Module

I was able to ensure I had my wedding off this year! If I had not been able to do this, I would have had to locum for a year as I couldn’t guarantee the time off in any other job.
Easy to use, brilliant way of swapping shifts and picking up locum shifts.
IMT2
Amazing app and great for locums!
Self-Rostering
Our powerful self-rostering tool gives healthcare professionals more ownership of their work schedules while ensuring seamless service delivery.
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HealthRota’s Self-Rostering system is a flexible approach to NHS workforce scheduling that enables healthcare professionals to take an active role in coordinating their work patterns.

Staff members are given the autonomy to choose their shifts in a way that aligns with their own circumstances, preferences and wellbeing, while still ensuring clinical service needs are safely met.

HealthRota supports a structured approach to self-rostering enabling both flexibility for staff and operational oversight for managers.

How self-rostering works in HealthRota

Set the Framework: The rota coordinator begins by setting how many of each shift you are required to work, any staffing rules that must be followed and a deadline for when preferences need to be submitted

Submit Preferences: Team members log into the HealthRota app to indicate which shifts they would prefer to work and to request leave.

Manager Review: Rota coordinators have the option to make necessary adjustments to the selected shifts to ensure safe staffing levels, fair working patterns and adherence to team members contracts

Collaborate and Adjust: Once published, staff can swap shifts (with manager approval) directly through the platform.

Track PAs Worked: The system tracks how many Programmed Activities (PAs) you’ve worked. This helps both staff and managers make sure contractual hours (like DCC or SPA time) are being met

With HealthRota, self-rostering is easy, efficient and safe – enabling you to:

Improve Work-Life Balance: Choose shifts that align with your personal commitments.

Enhance Team Collaboration: Easily coordinate with colleagues to ensure fair and equitable scheduling.

Maintain Compliance: Automate rules for safe staffing levels and working hours.

When self-rostering has been introduced the results speak for themselves time and time again: improved staff satisfaction, reduced costs on locums and admin, and improved recruitment and retention. Check out these HealthRota specific case studies for more details.

Brighton self-rostering case study
Hillingdon ‘Could Self-Rostering be the solution to preventing burnout?’

The BMA, NHS Employers and NHS England have all endorsed self-rostering as the “aspirational best practice for outstanding employers.” This endorsement reflects the broader shift within the NHS to self-rostering as a more inclusive and responsive employment practice.

Several leading healthcare bodies have acknowledged the importance of self-rostering in recent publications and policy discussions including:

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, which has explored the benefit in recruiting and retaining workforce.

The Royal College of Anaesthetics which highlighted the advantages to the rota members and rota administrators alike

The Royal College of Nursin g has been a longstanding advocate for self-rostering to achieve improved work life balance

The Royal College of Physician s which has discussed flexible working as key to sustainable medical careers

The benefits of self-rostering with HealthRota
Recommended by BMA & NHS Employers

Self-rostering is recommended by the BMA and NHS Employers as the “aspirational best practice for outstanding employers”

Fair and Transparent

Ensure equality across your team with automated conflict resolution and visibility into the rostering process.

Improved Retention

Ensure equality across your team with automated conflict resolution and visibility into the rostering process.

Enhanced Productivity

Empowered staff are more motivated and engaged.

Seamless Integration

HealthRota integrates with your existing systems to streamline payroll, leave management, and compliance.

Reduced Absenteeism

Aligning work schedules with personal preferences leads to fewer conflicts and less burnout.

Optimised Staffing

Meet patient demand effectively without overloading your team

Cuts Admin Costs

Reduce administrative overhead with automated scheduling and fewer rota disputes

User-Friendly Interface

Our clean, intuitive design makes rostering simple for everyone

Safe Rostering

Healthrota crosschecks all shifts inputted against the contract compliance rules to ensure safe working hours and staffing levels

PA Calculation

Track the number of PAs worked to check whether contractual obligations are being completed

Feedback on Self-Rostering

It saved us. It was amazing. If you can imagine a control room with your Chiefs planning your team, that is what we did. We were able to stop everyone from moving around and still ensured our workforce got regular breaks, their annual leave when requested and that we still had sufficient capacity to meet the demands of the Covid pandemic despite the number of staff not able to work. We built resilience into the team and so during wave one, not one doctor felt that they were being overworked. It was unbelievable.
Amy Brown
Medical Workforce Systems Manager
Most other competitors that report to allow self-rostering have got the process a little wrong. I email everyone on the rota and they login and people self-allocate their shifts, but with other systems I would have to ‘ok’ each one of those requests and when you’re looking at almost 2000 shifts every two months, that’s just not possible. The fact that HealthRota almost “crowdsources” this part of it, makes things really quite simple.
Tom Bircher
EM Consultant
It’s amazing the difference self-rostering can do to both staff morale and burnout. With the survey we did, registrars are happier. Happier staff mean better care for patients.

We’ve noticed a massive decrease in sickness on the registrar rota, because people are just more flexible. There’s more flexibility on the rota, which is great. We’ve also had a big impact on cost.
Sabrina Waheed
Junior Doctor
Much more flexibility for trainees. Easy to book annual leave can schedule work like around social life easily (and) better for morale overall. Less long runs of days or night if you prefer…
I think it’s great – especially because you can choose the weekends you’d rather not work because of other commitments.
It’s absolutely fantastic. This rota gives us ownership, feel valued as a team member, inclusive and allows our voice to be heard. Creates a better work life balance.
HealthRota has been invaluable in giving me flexibility for my personal and professional leave. It is very easy to use and gives a clear overview of staffing. As teaching fellow I have needed the flexibility to optimise my work opportunities, I could easily swap my shifts and leave to ensure I didn’t miss out and could contribute. I have never had such a flawless rota before… I cannot praise this rota enough and would be sorely disappointed if it was withdrawn.
This is such a great system – I have received 100% of the annual leave and unavailable days I have requested in both my clinical fellow job and my current training job. It makes such a difference not feeling that sense of dread when trying to get annual leave granted for important life events and marking unavailable days where you actually want your zero days is so much better than having them randomly allocated to days that are not useful. It is an excellent system and a massive selling point.
Mobile Rota Application

View all activities and shifts worked for each organisation by week or month in one easy-to-read schedule.
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Leave and Contracts

View all requested and confirmed leave, including the working and contractual totals.

Self-Rostering

Manage time and resources more effectively by enabling teams to select their shifts wherever they are.

Locum Jobs

Apply for locum shifts easily using a simple booking system. See vacancies and review the schedule before confirming shifts.

Exception Reporting

HealthRota makes it easy for Resident Doctors to report issues in relation to rostering and training.

Time Reporting

Worked overtime? No problem. Reduce emails and the chances of human error by submitting updates directly to a supervisor via the app.

Calendar subscription

iCalendar subscription feature allows a schedule to be synced with any other iOS or android calendar application.

Feedback on Mobile

Excellent system. I found it very helpful for allocating the department juniors appropriately. As a consultant, it’s great to be able to document our session time and being an app, it’s accessible from anywhere.
Easy to use – really like the interface in that I can so easily see who is off and who is in work. Definitely much better than a paper rota. Also, easy to just extend the rota for another year instead of having to copy and paste and make changes in a paper one.
Just to say that the HealthRota app is really great. Thank you very much. It is a good way to keep track of one’s shifts, easy to use. And, also to plan one’s leave.
Amazing app and great for locums!
NHS Integration

HealthRota champions NHS integration and is fully aligned with the NHS Open API vision for e-Rostering, e-Job Planning, and Locum Banks. We are committed to adopting and developing API-based interoperability standards to ensure seamless data exchange and integration across diverse healthcare applications. In parallel, we actively support secure, client-beneficial integrations with trusted third-party software partners – delivering NHS-compatible technology that ensures flexibility, interoperability, and enhanced value for our users.
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ESR interface

Our integration with the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) significantly enhances payroll and workforce administration processes. By seamlessly importing ESR data into HealthRota, organisations can ensure that staff records are consistently aligned across systems. This reduces manual data entry and minimises errors. Conversely, HealthRota enables the export of absence and attendance data back into ESR, supporting accurate and timely payroll processing. This two-way data exchange not only fosters consistency and reliability but also helps eliminate duplication of effort, thereby reinforcing compliance with NHS workforce policies and standards. To explore the full capabilities, we invite you to read more about our ESR integration.

Excel Support

In addition, HealthRota offers full compatibility with Microsoft Excel, giving users the ability to import and export data for tailored analysis. Whether you’re tracking KPIs, managing staffing resources, or reviewing operational metrics, Excel integration provides the flexibility to work with your data in familiar formats. Moreover, this feature is especially valuable for teams that rely on spreadsheet-based workflows for planning, performance monitoring, and reporting.

Reporting API

Furthermore, our comprehensive Reporting API Reporting API provides secure, real-time access to all data within the HealthRota platform. This empowers organisations to build custom dashboards, automate routine reporting tasks, and integrate seamlessly with other business intelligence tools. If your team requires technical documentation or implementation support, please contact our support team. support team.

Power BI

Finally, unlock deeper insights with our custom Power BI connector. HealthRota’s integration with Power BI allows users to visualise and model data dynamically, enabling real-time trend analysis, performance tracking, and data-driven decision-making. This makes it an ideal solution for NHS Trusts and healthcare providers aiming to enhance strategic planning, operational oversight and workforce optimisation.
Security

Offering best in class security with access, recovery and convenience using a world leading provider in the UK.
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ISO27001 Compliant

Protecting and securing data with full certification and compliance with ISO27001 standards for Security Management Systems.

(ICO) Data Protection Registration

Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to ensure compliance with data protection laws and to demonstrate commitment to safeguarding personal information.

NHS Data Security Protection Toolkit

Certified in protecting and securing data to ensure full compliance with the latest DSP Toolkit standard.

IASME Cyber Essentials

IASME certified to protect against internet-based cyber threats, ensuring that essential cyber security measures are in place to safeguard data and systems.

Single-Sign On

Using one login and the same verified staff credentials, HealthRota makes access easy with single sign-on.

Access Control

Configure settings to provide the desired level of access for each user with a granular access model.

Designed to make healthcare professionals lives better

Feedback on e-Rostering

Manage Surgery and Anaesthetics Rotas Seamlessly

For Surgery Rotas:

For Anaesthetics Rotas:

Trust-Wide Location and Resource Management

Streamline Job Planning and Team Scheduling

Scalable Across All Specialties

Feedback on Activity Management

Feedback on the Locum Support Module

How self-rostering works in HealthRota

The benefits of self-rostering with HealthRota

Feedback on Self-Rostering

Feedback on Mobile