SMART, one of the premier providers of workforce management solutions, recently announced that it has extended its offering to the NHS with the addition of fully integrated SMART Doctors Rostering. The new SMART Doctors Rostering helps Trusts to manage all staff including temporary (agency and locums), admin, nursing, medical, operations, ancillary by using just one central system.

Since it has been customized to look and feel similar to SMART’s highly acclaimed eRostering for nursing staff, the SMART Doctors Rostering will help medical staffing officers and managers to build rosters quickly and efficiently. The system will also help Trusts to reduce the reliance on costly locums while at the same time meeting EWTD, as well as looking after and improving patient care.

In a release, Liza Wolvey, Project Manager for eRostering at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust where SMART Rostering for both doctors and nurses are being used, said, “SMART Doctors Rostering enables us to manage doctors’ absence, and monitor those on call, right up to and including consultant level. We are able to demonstrate that all medical staff hours are planned in compliance with working time regulations. Maintaining safe working conditions for doctors means better quality of care for patients. Having one system that provides rostering for all types of staff has simplified operations significantly.”

SMART Doctors Rostering offers an extensive range of features that have been specifically designed to streamline the effective running of wards and departments. Some of these features include powerful reporting capabilities which allow both managers and department heads to view time details of breaches in working time regulations, as well as absence and sick leave, holidays taken and entitlement yet to be taken, and locum use.

Tristan Spencer, Health Market Director at SMART said, “SMART Doctors Rostering is a natural extension to our already comprehensive suite of health service workforce management solutions. Now fully integrated, SMART Doctors Rostering enables managers to plan ahead, while providing the flexibility to meet requirements for safe day-to-day operations and adhere to Working Time regulations.”