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SMART today announced that it will showcase SMART for Health at the HR in the NHS exhibition, ICC, Birmingham. With the ability to understand complex healthcare issues the fully integrated solution is designed specifically for the NHS and healthcare organisations encompassing Rostering & Auto Rostering, Self Rostering & Self Service, Time and Attendance & Reporting.
With a enterprise suite of solutions, SMART for Health is a dedicated solution designed to reduce labour costs while increasing productivity, improving staff satisfaction and delivering quality patient care with a skilled workforce. The demand for such benefits is driven by the financial pressure on NHS Trust workforces coupled with the Government's Agenda for Change. As a result, organisations are understanding the need to improve efficiency, drive down costs and reduce absenteeism.
As the preferred supplier for rostering and time and attendance solutions and proven integration to the electronic staff record (ESR) project, SMART for Health is poised to improving staff productivity through better work-life balance and operational efficiencies. Fully integrated time and attendance ensures compliance with Working Time Directive and pay contracts with seamless integration to payroll and HMRS systems.
Tristan Spencer, Director comments: "SMART for Health demonstrates our commitment to developing and delivering industry specific solutions. We understand complex healthcare issues where staff across all tiers, organisations and most importantly patients can reap the benefits through a robust, reliable and scalable solution."
The unique auto rostering functionality offers a comprehensive system that not only maximises your return on employment by matching resource and skills precisely to demand but reduces the administration of health staff time management and ensures roster planning is carried out easily. Alongside this, under or over manning is highlighted at the planning stage ensuring full cover is maintained therefore effortlessly producing an accurate and efficient roster. Using advanced workforce deployment applications, staff can schedule themselves for different shifts from any web-accessible location.
Traditional manual processes for recording attendance and rostering staff are cumbersome, extremely labour intensive and subject to human error whereas an automated organisation-wide solution functioning from managing shift patterns to timesheet recording is a cost effective solution.
Steve Abbotts, Staff Services Manager, University Hospital of Birmingham is benefiting with SMART for Health who comments: "The NHS has some very big issues that it needs to address, such as flexibility of working practices, empowerment of staff and cost-effective care delivery. But like any organisation, the NHS needs to invest and modernise in order to deliver the levels of service quality that the public demands. The cost of this system is dwarfed by the huge potential benefits to nursing staff and in terms of more efficient, cost-effective and streamlined administration processes. We expect that through the benefits offered by both the rostering and T & A solution, the investment will be recovered within a year of implementation."
With SMART for health, organisations are in a unique position to solve a myriad of workforce management challenges through a comprehensive suite of healthcare specific intelligence.
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