Medics Monthly Round Up | July 2024
Welcome to the July version of the Medics Round-Up. This month we cover a variety of topics from Connected Health & Care Summit, a new pay scales view in Allocate Rota and an interview with Harrogate and District NHS FT.
News | The Snapshot
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- Register for Connected Health Care & Summit 2024
- Enter the RLDatix Awards 2024
- New historical pay scales view in Allocate Rota
- On-demand webinar | Medical rostering at Great Western Hospitals
- Interview with Harrogate and District NHS FT
- Catch-up on the latest Medics User Group
- Hear about the latest Medics Rostering Community Group
- Discover what happened in July’s Job Planning Network
- RLDatix visits Dudley Group NHS FT
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News | The Detail
We are excited to announce the launch of the Connected Health & Care Summit (formerly People Summit) taking place on the 17th – 18th October in Manchester.
Once again, we will bring together the largest community of health and care professionals in service planning, clinical operations, workforce operations, and safety from across Europe.
The Summit will feature inspiring, interactive, and thought-provoking sessions from industry leaders, and keynote speakers along with users of the UK’s and the world’s most impactful health and care technologies.
Early bird tickets are available until Friday 16th August – book your place now!
Do you have a story to tell?
We are working on building an exciting agenda for the Connected Health & Care Summit and we would like you to be part of it! This is your opportunity to share insights, exchange best practices, and explore innovative ideas with peers and industry leaders. We are looking for your stories using RLDatix solutions that demonstrate how you are:
- Reducing waiting lists
- Supporting a happy workforce
- Making maternity care safe
- Gripping productivity
- Protecting clinical data
- Reducing agency spend
We’re thrilled to announce the opening of the RLDatix Awards 2024 submissions! The awards will take place at the end of day one of the Connected Health & Care Summit. Last year we celebrated and acknowledged individuals, teams and organisations from across Europe showcasing truly amazing projects and initiatives – and this year we can’t wait to do the same.
What are the Categories?
🌟 Safer Care Award
🌟 Supported Workforce Award
🌟 Sustainable Organisation Award
🌟 Engagement Award for Innovative Collaboration
🌟 Innovative Award for Quality Improvement
🌟 Safety and Workforce Effectiveness across a System Award
How do I submit my entry?
Click the link below to view the RLDatix Awards page, there you can view the categories and descriptions. By clicking “submit your nomination” you’ll be taken to a form to complete the submission. Deadline for entries is Wednesday 4th September.
Following on from the recent calculation changes in Allocate Rota, we have now introduced a new historical pay scales view in the system.
This new feature provides you the option to use grades with historical pay scales, so you can compare a rota outcome on the new calculations, on a previous pay scale.
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear Deborah Tapley, Workforce Systems Manager talk through the Trust’s journey to implement medical rostering via Allocate Optima at Great Western Hospitals NHS FT.
Some of the key highlights include:
- The key aims of the project to align medical rostering with Agenda for Change staff
- How the implementation project went
- How they engaged their medical staff and encouraged adoption
- Key stats, what BAU looks like now and the Trust’s future priorities
Congratulations to Harrogate and District NHS FT who have recently gone live with MedicOnDuty, Allocate ActivityManager and Allocate Rota, helping to more efficiently plan and manage their medical workforce.
Having just completed the implementation project, we spoke to Martin Deacon, eRostering Manager and Sarah Whitton, Project Manager for the Programme Management Office and Digital Delivery Team to find out about the challenges they were experiencing, their goals for the future and how they are going to use the medics solutions to provide greater visibility and boost productivity.
The latest Medics User Group took place on 3rd July, with almost 60 people joining the session.
The agenda covered a variety of topics, including:
- A conversation around the calculation updates in the Allocate Rota system
- A deep dive into the roadmap for Allocate JobPlan, Allocate Rota and Allocate Appraisal
- A sneak peak at the next release for the Allocate JobPlan system
- A how-to guide on self-rostering for consultants
- Great Western Hospitals talked through their journey to rostering their medics
Want to sign up to the next Medics User Group? Drop us an email and we’ll keep you informed of dates for the next session: [email protected].
The latest Medics Rostering Community Group took place on 18th July, hosted by Chris Bond (Medics Rostering Specialist). 37 people attended, from across 22 different organisations.
The group covered a variety of topics, including:
- Product updates and sneak peeks at some upcoming new features
- An overview of reporting, KPIs and Allocate DataHub
- A regular session on anaesthetics rostering, with Swansea Bay providing an update on of their progress
Thank you to everyone who attended and joined in the conversation.
On 16th July, our Job Planning Network took place, hosted by Tom Bird (Customer Success Team Lead, Medics). The session attracted over 100 people and covered current hot topics and product updates on the Allocate JobPlan system. The interactive session also gave attendees the opportunity to share successes, challenges and best practice.
Would you like to join the next Job Planning Network? Email [email protected].
You can catch-up on the session and access the slides from the session by clicking the link below.
The Inaugural Job Planning Community
On 24th July Tom also hosted the first Job Planning Community session, which brought together a group of organisations who have 75%+ sign off rates for their job plans. This group is focusing on best practice, troubleshooting and boosting engagement around job planning.
Do you have a question you would like to raise to the group? Please email [email protected] who would be happy to help.
In early July, members of the RLDatix team made a visit to Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, where they covered a variety of topics related to activity-based rostering and job planning.
The group discussed development of our product roadmaps, monitoring of job plan delivery via activity-based rostering and ideas for future enhancements, amongst other things.
On the left: Clare Inglis, Laura Grady, Richard Eccles (Dudley Group NHS FT)
On the right, front row: Hannah Kitchen, Tom Ross, Chris Bond, Tom Bird (RLDatix)
On the right, back row: George Webb, Mike Hampson (RLDatix)
