Testimonials & Feedback - HealthRota - Healthcare Workforce Management

Testimonials

Consultants

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”

Dr Matt Morgan

Critical Care

University Hospital Wales

Consultants

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.”

Dr Sarah Grimwood

ED Clinical Lead

University Hospitals Southampton

Workforce

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”

Charlie Dyer

Workforce Hub Manager, Integrated Medicine

Cardiff and Vale Health Board

Workforce

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.”

Bridget O’Kelly

Director of People

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Workforce

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.”

Helen Byrne

Divisional Director of Integrated Medicine

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Consultants

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

Stephanie Rutherford

Educational Fellow

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Consultants

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.

Dr Thomas Bircher

Emergency Consultant, Northern General Hospital

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultants

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.”

Dr Andy Webster

Consultant, Emergency Medicine & CCIO

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

DiT

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”

Lisa Leonard

Chief of Surgery Division

University Hospitals Sussex

Consultants

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’.”

Dr Stephen Gardner

Chair of Integrated Medicine

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

AHPs

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.”

Angela Brooke

Head of Allied Health Professionals

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

AHPsConsultantsDiTWorkforce

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.”

Dr Rob Galloway

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:

Easy to use, brilliant way of swapping shifts and picking up locum shifts.

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.

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.

We like the flexibility of being able to create and amend rotas as required. We had an intern when we went live who is now a member of our team – she could not comprehend how rotas were managed on Word documents and all our team can now create rotas from scratch. The ability to roll out the rotational rotas on a template is excellent.

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 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.

I have found HealthRota to be really helpful in terms of having a rota whereby I can plan for important events in my life and also in taking study leave without having to jump through multiple administrative hoops. In comparison to the previous system of having a pre-allocated line on a spreadsheet, HealthRota is far superior.

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!

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.

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.

The rotas are easy to view on the app and you can see how good the cover is on any given day. It is also very useful being able to request annual leave whenever you want to rather than having to fit it in between on-calls.

HealthRota is brilliant to use for my team as shift workers, it has cut down in staff needing to email for leave.