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:
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 think it’s great – especially because you can choose the weekends you’d rather not work because of other commitments.
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…
Having access to HealthRota had a tremendous positive impact on organising my clinical and non-clinical time. Since moving to a new Trust without HealthRota, the issues of more conventional rota management are all too apparent again and it has made me feel less in control of my schedule. I’m hopeful for widespread adoption of HealthRota across Trusts, so more can benefit from this system.
A breath of fresh air to be treated like an adult with a life outside of work able to request leave and have the majority of it approved without any swaps.
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.
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.
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.
Fantastic work that will really make a difference to our doctors – well done to everyone involved. Keep up the great work!
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.
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.