RLDatix announces strategic partnership with GoodShape

RLDatix has strategically partnered with leading absence management provider GoodShape, integrating its proven AI-powered absence management platform with Allocate Optima, the leading workforce management solution for the health and care sector.

This partnership brings together the strengths of both platforms to deliver a seamless absence reporting and management experience, enabling health and care organisations with early intervention, improved employee wellbeing, and reduced workforce disruption to improve workforce productivity, and support staff wellbeing through timely access to health and support services.

“Our integration with GoodShape adds a new layer of intelligence and compassion to absence management,” said Jan Keddy, Head of Partnerships and Alliances at RLDatix. “By connecting real-time absence data directly into Allocate Optima and SafeCare, we empower frontline teams to respond faster, plan better, and ultimately deliver safer, more consistent care.”

With health and care organisations facing growing pressure to reduce agency and bank spend, improve care delivery, and support employee health, the combined solution delivers real-time absence reporting, predictive analytics, and automated manager workflows, within GoodShape, with updates feeding directly into Allocate Optima and SafeCare.

Key benefits of the integration include:

1. Real-time absence capture: Staff can log absences 24/7 through GoodShape, triggering automated support including self-care plans, wellbeing content, and telehealth signposting, while instantly updating workforce availability in Optima and SafeCare.
2. Informed managers, compliant processes: Absence alerts are automatically routed to managers with dynamic return-to-work tools, policy guidance, and referral management, all tracked for compliance.
3. Smarter planning: Absence data from GoodShape flows directly into Allocate Optima and SafeCare, helping rostering teams adjust shifts in real time and maintain safe staffing levels.
4. Workforce intelligence: AI-powered insights from GoodShape help organisations forecast future absence, identify high-risk departments, and reduce long-term sickness and attrition.

“We’re very excited about the potential of this partnership to transform how health and care organisations manage workforce health. By integrating GoodShape’s proven AI-powered absence platform with Allocate Optima and SafeCare through our work with RLDatix, leaders can anticipate risks, act sooner, and deliver targeted support. This will reduce and prevent avoidable absences, accelerate return-to-work, strengthen staff resilience, and ultimately reduce costs for our clients.”

Ed Radkiewicz, Executive Chairman of GoodShape and CEO of MARCOL Health

GoodShape’s platform, used by NHS and Independent health and care organisations, has been shown to reduce absence on average by 24% in the first year alone, saving an average of £500 per employee per year, and improving long-term health outcomes across mental and physical wellbeing.

To learn more about the GoodShape and Allocate Optima integration, join our upcoming webinar on 12 November at 11 a.m. GMT, or book a free demo to see it in action.