Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust appoints RLDatix to deliver enhanced eRostering platform

LONDON, 4 June 2026: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed RLDatix to deliver its eRostering platform, Allocate Optima, across all Agenda for Change staff, covering the majority of the trust’s workforce.

As part of the platform, the trust will implement SafeCare, an acuity-based staffing tool that aligns workforce levels to patient need, alongside Loop, a staff engagement and communication app that enables employees to view rosters, manage shifts and communicate more effectively. Together, these capabilities bring rostering, staffing insight and staff engagement into a single, connected system.

Ashford and St Peter’s has a long history with RLDatix, having been one of the earliest adopters of electronic rostering in the NHS. Following a period of evaluating alternative approaches, including four years with a different supplier, the trust has now chosen to return to Allocate Optima, building on its previous experience with the system to support its current and future workforce needs. This latest investment introduces enhanced functionality to support today’s workforce requirements.

Together, Allocate Optima, SafeCare and Loop will:

• support safer staffing aligned to patient acuity
• enable more effective workforce deployment and opportunities for staff redeployment
• reduce reliance on temporary staffing
• improve workforce experience by giving staff greater visibility and control over their working patterns
• support flexible working and staff wellbeing.

This enables more efficient use of resources while also improving day-to-day experience for staff, including reducing avoidable temporary staffing spend.

The platform will also support the trust’s wider digital transformation, enabling more consistent, data-driven workforce management and reducing reliance on manual processes.

The solution aligns with the trust’s wider group model, supporting closer working with partner organisations, including Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

Implementation is currently underway and is expected to be completed by August 2026.

Jo Fanning, Chief People Officer at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:

“This investment marks an important step forward in how we support our Agenda for Change staff and deliver safe, effective care for our patients.

By implementing Allocate Optima, alongside SafeCare and Loop, we are strengthening our ability to ensure staffing levels reflect patient need, while also improving the experience for our teams.

Our Agenda for Change staff are already familiar with the system and have responded very positively, and we are confident it will support both staff wellbeing and more effective use of our resources.”

Paul Sanders, President UK and Ireland, at RLDatix, added:

“We’re proud to be supporting Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in strengthening how they plan and deploy their workforce.

By bringing together rostering, acuity-based staffing and staff engagement tools in a single platform, the trust will have greater visibility of demand and the flexibility to respond in real time.

This is key to reducing reliance on temporary staffing, supporting staff wellbeing and, ultimately, delivering safer care for patients.”

About Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in the boroughs of Runnymede, Spelthorne, Woking and parts of Elmbridge, Hounslow, Surrey Heath and beyond. The trust employs around 4,400 members of staff.  

Our sites include Ashford Hospital and St Peter’s Hospital, and we host some services at Woking Community Hospital and other community settings. We are the leading Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit in Surrey, caring for some of the smallest and sickest babies across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Our Centre for Endometriosis and Minimally Invasive Gynaecology (CEMIG) is recognised as a Centre of Excellence for the treatment of women with endometriosis, and in 2023 was the third busiest centre in the UK. 

In 2024/2025, our teams: 

• Saw over 120,000 people in our Emergency Department at St Peter’s Hospital 
• Performed more than 54,000 inpatient and day case procedures 
• Saw over 559,000 people in our outpatient clinics 
• Delivered over 2,700 babies 
• Provided more than 105,000 virtual outpatient clinics 

About RLDatix

For over 20 years, RLDatix has championed safety as our driving force. We are the only organisation integrating data across risk, safety, compliance, provider lifecycle, and workforce management to provide decision-makers with the critical insights they need to enhance care quality and improve patient outcomes across the enterprise. This approach, which prioritises safety and outcomes for patients, workforces and organisations alike, is what we call connected healthcare operations.

Trusted by thousands of healthcare providers worldwide, we empower them to focus on what matters most: delivering efficient, patient-centred care.

Together, we can create a brighter future where meaningful data insights lead to safer healthcare for all.