Supporting Doctors and patient care through meaningful job plans and thoughtful rosters that also safeguard organisations resources.

Safe patient care, staff experience as well as the sustainability of services are all influenced by effective doctors rostering, job planning and rotas. However, there is a delicate balance to create plans and rosters that meet the needs of all three, which is made harder by staffing gaps and often complex rules. Get it right and the benefits are many. For example cancelled activity is reduced, waiting list initiatives avoided, locum cover minimised and doctors have flexibility and control over their work and lives.

RLDatix’s HealthMedics solutions provide an end-to-end solution for planning and deploying the medical workforce fairly and safely, and in the most effective way. We do so while supporting medical staffing teams in what is often a complex task and we focus on reducing the admin tasks of rota coordinators freeing time for care.

Ensuring the right team is available, with the right skills, to deliver patient care lies at the very heart of our solutions. We think understanding and articulating care and patient benefit is central to a successful medical workforce technology project.

Medical workforce technology should support doctors work and their autonomy. In many ways it should operate in the background, while making it easy for them to see work well in advance, to book sessions or shifts, to swap and to book leave and plan study. It needs to do all this while protecting their safety and working hours and ensuring fairness across teams.

We have seen first-hand the value that medical staffing and rota co-ordinators deliver healthcare. The context and contract rules governing job plans, rotas and rosters are complex. We know how important it is for medical staffing to work alongside your doctors and how important it is that the software makes this as easy as possible.