Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Skills for Health’s rostering system to manage its junior doctors’ rotas and help deliver its QIPP objectives.
The Trust is rolling out the system across all its Directorates, following a sixmonth pilot that delivered estimated savings of more than £20,000 on locum costs within its cardiology services alone. The Trust’s medical staffing team will now use the web-based tool to create and manage all junior doctor rotas, monitor and record their working hours and ensure compliance with working time regulations. Trust medical staffing officer Andrea Padgeon said: “Moving from our paper-based system to the Skills for Health system has made it much easier for us to produce and manage complex rotas and update them in real-time to accommodate swaps, leave and unexpected absences. By allowing us to plan further in advance and manage rota gaps more effectively, the tool has helped us reduce locum use and administration costs and as a result it has been adopted as one of the Trust’s QIPP projects.”
