Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Goes Live with RLDatix E-Rostering and Locum’s Nest Integration
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH) has become the first NHS trust to go live with the integration between the RLDatix Optima platform and Locum’s Nest’s bank and agency platform. The deployment demonstrates how the integration enables workforce information to flow seamlessly between the two systems, helping NHS teams manage temporary staffing more efficiently.
Connecting Workforce Planning with Temporary Staffing
The implementation brings together workforce planning, e-rostering and temporary staffing into one connected digital workflow, enabling NHS teams to move seamlessly from identifying workforce demand through to filling shifts through bank and agency. Rather than relying on disconnected systems and manual processes, the integration enables workforce information to flow securely between the Trust’s e-rostering system and Locum’s Nest’s bank and agency platform, reducing duplication and creating a more streamlined experience for staffing teams.
What RLDatix E-Rostering Delivers Through This Integration
The integration between RLDatix’s e-rostering solution and Locum’s Nest unlocks a range of benefits for NHS workforce teams:
- Seamless integration between RLDatix’s e-rostering solution and Locum’s Nest’s bank and agency platform.
- Reduced manual administration and the elimination of duplicate data entry.
- Faster and more efficient filling of temporary staffing requirements.
- Improved visibility of workforce demand across teams through integrated and synchronised reporting.
- A simpler, more intuitive experience for staffing teams and healthcare professionals.
- Stronger workforce governance and operational oversight. The rollout will support all Agenda for Change teams as implementation continues across the Trust.
How It Supports the Wider NHS
By integrating e-rostering with temporary staffing, trusts can move more efficiently from identifying workforce demand to filling shifts, while reducing administrative burden and improving operational oversight. By enabling existing workforce technologies to work together, the partnership aims to help more NHS organisations streamline temporary staffing processes, reduce administrative burden and improve workforce visibility.
From the Trust
Karen Uttley, Deputy Chief People Officer at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:
"Managing our temporary workforce effectively is a key priority for the Trust. Embarking on an integration of this scale has certainly not been an easy process; however, by uniting around a shared vision, all three organisations worked hand-in-hand to overcome technical challenges and minimise any disruption to our day-to-day operations.
By integrating RLDatix and Locum’s Nest, we are now creating a much more connected workflow for our teams, helping reduce manual processes and providing greater visibility across temporary staffing requirements. We are incredibly pleased to have collaborated so closely with both organisations to support our workforce teams and prove how technology can enable more efficient, resilient ways of working across the Trust.”
From RLDatix
Julian Mount – Solutions Consultant at RLDatix, said:
"Our goal is to help NHS organisations build connected workforce operations rather than isolated digital systems. By integrating e-rostering with temporary staffing, trusts can move more efficiently from identifying workforce demand to filling shifts, while reducing administrative burden and improving operational oversight. We’re pleased to have worked alongside Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals and Locum’s Nest on this first deployment and look forward to making the integration available to more NHS organisations.”
FAQs
RLDatix’s Optima platform is a digital workforce planning solution designed for NHS organisations. It enables trusts to plan, schedule and manage staffing across departments, ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time. It brings together workforce planning, e-rostering and temporary staffing into one connected digital workflow.
Workforce information flows securely between the two systems, reducing manual administration, eliminating duplicate data entry and improving visibility of workforce demand. This means staffing teams can manage the entire process from identifying a gap on the roster to filling it via bank or agency within a connected workflow.
Key benefits include faster and more efficient filling of temporary staffing requirements, reduced manual administration and the elimination of duplicate data entry, and stronger workforce governance and operational oversight.
The rollout will support all Agenda for Change teams as implementation continues across the Trust. The implementation marks an important milestone in the partnership between Locum’s Nest and RLDatix, with plans to support further NHS organisations as the integration is rolled out across trusts nationally.
Rather than relying on disconnected systems and manual processes, the integration enables workforce information to flow securely between the Trust’s e-rostering system and Locum’s Nest’s bank and agency platform, reducing duplication and creating a more streamlined experience for staffing teams. This improved visibility helps trusts fill shifts via their internal bank first, potentially reducing reliance on costly agency staff.
Yes. By enabling existing workforce technologies to work together, the partnership aims to help more NHS organisations streamline temporary staffing processes, reduce administrative burden and improve workforce visibility.
