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SMART, Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust has selected a Bank Staff Management solution from SMART, providers of workforce management software, to ensure more efficient booking of the 650 bank and casual staff across the Trust.

The selection is a call-off from a contract to provide electronic rostering solutions to NHS Trusts in the East Midlands region, put in place by re:source Procurement Hub.

John Watkinson, Employee Services Manager at the Trust explains, “The SMART Bank system will help us to achieve faster and more efficient booking of both bank and casual staff whilst sending booked hours back through to our ESR payroll system, imperative for accurate payroll.” He continues, “We have opted for a hosted solution as this enables us to start using the system as soon as possible and will also give us the option for staff to access the system from home in the future to view and book available shifts.”

Using a combination of data held in ESR and the SMART Bank Management Solution the Trust will have full visibility of available bank staff, be able to view staff training and skill profiles, conform to security and legislative requirements and easily record bank staff working hours.

Tristan Spencer, Health Market Director comments, “This is the second NHS trust to purchase a system from us using the East Midlands procurement contract, helping to confirm that trusts can achieve efficiencies of time and money when selecting IT systems if they work together in this way, it really does speed up the process for all involved.”

About SMART
Hertfordshire based SMART is the leading provider of true web-based workforce management solutions, delivering fully integrated workforce management across all nursing, medical, administrative and support services in the NHS.

The SMART solutions incorporate e-Rostering including team based self-rostering and auto-rostering as well as fully automated time and attendance, absence management, staff bank administration and monitoring of working time legislation. This unique breadth of functionality enables trusts to improve staff productivity and efficiency with significant reductions in: bank, agency, administration and absence costs. In 2001, the NHS and McKesson selected SMART as the best of breed provider of e-Rostering and Time and Attendance solutions for the National ESR HR & Payroll programme.

The SMART NHS customer base is growing rapidly, with 22 trusts contracted at 1st Aug 2008, including: University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust and Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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Filed under: Press Releases on September 2nd, 2008

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