- Locations
- Build dashboards of the key locations that are relevant to you and your team. Theatres, Outpatients, Scanning 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
- All Staff Grades
- Organise staffing groups into teams in locations. Whether Consultants, Doctors in Training, Nurses or any members of staff, schedule any member of staff into an Activity.
- 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
- Leverage all the tools of HealthRota’s e-Rostering suite. See Availability from Self Rostering, Resident Doctor schedules, Nursing rotas or any other rota in the HealthRota system
- 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 any mixture of 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
Feedback on Activity Management
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.
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.
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.
The app is fantastic, very easy to use, great for getting the time off you need for AL/SL (e.g. able to get onto an ALS revalidation course and not worrying about swapping night shifts so I could attend!) and so useful for knowing who is working at any one time in the hospital (particularly during on-calls). It is definitely something that should be implemented at other trusts both to improve junior doctors’ wellbeing and improve patient safety with easier adaptability for unexpected sickness and awareness of who is working at any one point in the hospital across many teams.
HealthRota meant I was able to have a great work- life balance, got the time off for study/annual leave when I needed it and protected me from inevitable burnout. I would recommend HealthRota to any future trusts I work in – it is a huge asset to a Trust, and particularly to the Emergency Department.
