Allocate outlines interoperability partnership with staff bank platform Locum’s Nest
2nd December 2020: Allocate is pleased to welcome Locum’s Nest as a new interoperability partner. The partnership means organisations that use Allocate’s rostering and bank systems alongside Locum’s Nest can now automatically publish hard to fill vacancies reducing the need to turn to the traditional locum agency route.
Locum’s Nest has a clinical workforce of around 30,000 staff on its temporary staffing platform. The partnership means unfilled Allocate Bank duties, for Medical, Dental and AHP workers can be passed to Locum’s Nest for fulfilment. Once a bank worker has been sourced, the worker information will be transferred back to Allocate solutions and booked to the duty.
With the demand for clinical staffing outstripping supply many organisations seek to access as many sources of staff as possible. This partnership opens up another source of staff and provides Allocate customers with choice.
Nick Wilson, CEO, Allocate said “Every month the NHS fills over 1.2 million temporary staffing shifts with internal NHS staff using our BankStaff software. Even so, with the global demand for clinical staff outstripping supply, our customers often have to use other sources to staff some hard to fill shifts. These colleagues come from temp staffing apps, outsourced bank providers or agencies. Through interoperability with partners like Locum’s Nest we aim to do all we can to reduce the administrative overhead of accessing these sources of staff and most importantly, as has proved critical during the pandemic, ensuring that all staff booked are visible in the live roster so that organisations have a clear picture of all staff at any given time.”
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-Founder of Locum’s Nest, commented: “The integration with Allocate’s market leading rostering solution for health and care organisations is a step further on our mission to support the NHS to work in a more transparent, collaborative manner, increase workforce engagement and improve care outcomes within our health service. NHS professionals currently working on the frontline need as much help as possible in arranging cover to resource patient care and this new collaboration will short circuit that process and swiftly deliver the urgent skills and experience to relevant wards and departments relieving the current resourcing pressures.”
The Allocate software integration with all bank suppliers will be ready in 2021 with a number of Trusts actively preparing for it today.
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About Allocate Software
Allocate Software is a leading international provider of Human Capital Management solutions, supporting the operational and administrative needs of healthcare, defence and maritime sectors.
In the health and care sector, Allocate is enabling the delivery of safe and effective care at optimal cost, by helping organisations to have the right people in the right place at the right time. With over 800 clients and over a million staff rostered daily, Allocate serves the largest public and private sector institutions around the world. Its Optima, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), platform including HealthRoster and HealthMedics, optimises the complex staffing requirements of large health and care organisations. Alongside automating sophisticated scheduling and ensuring accurate pay for staff that have complex pay rules, it is unique in providing additional benefits to improve the safety of staffing given changing patient needs, the management of contingent workforce, and the engagement of staff through the dedicated app. Optima is used to plan the working lives of half million staff across all workforce groups including doctors, nurses, therapists, care staff, operational staff and administrators.
Allocate Software is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with 600 employees, including over 190 in research, development and product management functions. It provides services and support to its international customer base through regional offices in the UK, Sweden, Germany and Australia.
About Locum’s Nest
Locum’s Nest is a technology company providing a holistic workforce solution to NHS Trusts and Primary Care organisations. Founded by 2 junior doctors, its vision is to increase transparency, collaboration and improve care outcomes within our health service, through its intuitive mobile and web multi-product platform used by healthcare professionals and NHS management teams. Locum’s Nest is supporting NHS organisations to work in a more transparent manner and increase engagement of their workforce, in ways ranging from digital shift-matching, staff recruitment, communication, data visualisation and interoperability. Locum’s Nest, whose mission is to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts.
Media enquiries
Liz Jones, Chief Marketing Officer
Tel : 07968 412642
Clare Wall
Tel : 07974 161127
Ruth Armitage
Tel: 07590 541993
Dr Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-Founder
Tel: 07867 382169
Lizzy Howell – Sunny Side Up for Locum’s Nest
M: 07910 374301
