Testimonials
HealthRota has turned a stressful process into one that is reliable, efficient and much easier. Better for staff, better for administrators and better for rota designers”
Critical Care
University Hospital Wales
I spend roughly a quarter of the time I used to on self-rostering, my colleagues love the system, saying how user friendly it is, and how efficient. They can access theirs and others rotas simply and effectively.”
ED Clinical Lead
University Hospitals Southampton
The software has not only been invaluable to the teams/users, but has also contributed in significantly reducing the administration resource that had previously been required to manage the rotas. HealthRota is a far more cost-effective alternative”
Workforce Hub Manager, Integrated Medicine
Cardiff and Vale Health Board
We’re delighted to be extending our partnership with HealthRota to support the e-rostering of more than 2,000 colleagues across our Medical and Allied Health workforce. Flexible rostering is at the heart of the national NHS People Plan and Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust see HealthRota’s e-rostering solution as the key to unlocking the potential of flexible, fair and transparent working for our colleagues.”
Director of People
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Already the data which HealthRota provides on the deployment of our workforce enables us to roster colleagues more efficiently and effectively, ensuring that patient safety remains our number one priority. I’m delighted that HealthRota will improve the experience of our patients, while benefiting our colleagues in the visibility of their own and their colleagues’ rotas – with promising increases in flexibility to come.”
Divisional Director of Integrated Medicine
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Hand on my heart, this is not a sob story. I was looking after about 50 patients by myself. I had an awful time. They were struggling to get locums to cover, and I was pleading with managers to get me locums to help look after them because I was looking after both the ward and the outliers, which could total up to 50 patients, and I can see the difference. I don’t plead to get my shifts covered anymore. Here I just turn up to work, and I enjoy it because I know that the patients are getting the best that we can provide
Educational Fellow
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
We had someone who did anatomy demonstrating for one day-a-week and so, only wanted to work 60%. Fitting someone like that into a rolling rota was impossible before, but with self-rostering and the allocation of shifts that staff can put in themselves, it actually becomes really easy… We’re able to support personal development and Sheffield becomes a more interesting and attractive place to work.
Emergency Consultant, Northern General Hospital
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Prior to introduction of HealthRota it took a Consultant about 4 hours of time per week to roster 18 Consultants across three departments. Now we have expanded to 44 consultants, the increased complexity can still be managed in half the time with the introduction of self-rostering and then subsequent shift swaps and give ups through the mobile application.”
Consultant, Emergency Medicine & CCIO
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
HealthRota has transformed how we manage our junior doctor rotas from a daily nightmare to a well organised and flexible system able to respond to the needs of modern working patterns. We are looking forward to putting all our Consultants on the sane system as soon as possible”
Chief of Surgery Division
University Hospitals Sussex
It’s clear that feedback from our medical colleagues has been incredibly positive for the simplicity and visibility that HealthRota provides. As a Division, we’re looking forward to using HealthRota’s e-rostering software to further enhance flexible working for medical trainees and to improve the delivery of care to our patients’.”
Chair of Integrated Medicine
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
We’re delighted to be extending e-rostering and its benefits to all Allied Health Professional colleagues. Introducing HealthRota to our AHP colleagues will increase the flexibility and transparency of our rotas, supporting colleagues to provide the best possible care for our patients and achieving the key aims of the NHS People Plan. We’re thrilled that by using HealthRota’s software, colleagues will have an increase in the degree of working choices they have, while also allowing us to roster study and professional development time for the first time.”
Head of Allied Health Professionals
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
HealthRota is the only system that truly allows use of annualised hours. Can work out how many hours each of your staff can work on the shop floor – based on their full time equivalent employment, length of contract, their contractual leave and their non-shop floor hours. This allows self rostering, ability to recruit staff who want a limited PAS/hours jobs and ability to recruit and utilise when needed clinical fellows.”
Consultant, Emergency Medicine
University Hospitals Sussex
Feedback
As part of the evaluation of HealthRota used for the paper: “HealthRota; an evaluation of a digital rostering platform and managing doctors’ rota and leave”, published in Future Healthcare Journal by the Royal College of Physicians, anonymous feedback was obtained from the doctors in A&E and medicine about their experience of using HealthRota in the annualised way described. Below are some of the comments shared:
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!
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.
Being able to see who is/will be in the working team alongside me for a given shift/shifts is helpful for fostering a team atmosphere in the absence of true “firms” and contributes to wellbeing.
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.
Fantastic work that will really make a difference to our doctors – well done to everyone involved. Keep up the great work!
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.
Amazing app and great for locums!
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.
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.
It’s such an improvement on classical binding rotas to be able to plan leave and unavailability upfront – I don’t know anyone who has complained about this system compared to traditional methods. The rota team that supports the app are EXCELLENT and have only been very helpful and supportive!
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 is brilliant to use for my team as shift workers, it has cut down in staff needing to email for leave.