Medical workforce visibility

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Case Study

For several years Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has wanted to improve the visibility of the medical workforce issues, specifically to understand productivity, agency spending and annual leave management in greater detail.

In order to achieve this the trust knew they needed to implement a standardised job planning process linked to workforce activity. As Dr Andy Haynes, Executive Medical Director, explains: “We were working from paper-based systems which were not co-ordinated.”

They started by implementing a paper-based method, but recognised the best way to implement a change would be through a digital solution. Therefore, Dr Haynes with other trust workforce leaders developed a business case for RLDatix’s JobPlan and ActivityManager, which was approved by the Trust Board.

Dr Haynes says: “JobPlan was a huge enabler in the effective roll-out of standardised, fair and visible job plans for our consultants.”

Job planning has been effectively embedded across the medical workforce, with 98% of consultants signing off job plans linked to annual activity.

“RLDatix’s solutions have given us visibility of medical workforce issues in a way that wasn’t possible with a paper-based system.”

Dr Andy Haynes
Executive Medical Director, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS FT