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Covid-19 Resource Centre | UK edition

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Learning Systems in Healthcare – Covid-19 and the People Plan

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Join Shona Blackhall, Product Manager for DevelopMe+, as she explores how learning systems can help deliver your People Plan. Just add your details to access the webinar instantly.

East of England trusts pursue sustainable vaccine delivery process with a regional collaborative workforce

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East of England trusts, James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have implemented a collaborative bank, allowing reservist staff to move…

Supporting Your Omicron Response

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Supporting Your Omicron Response We are very alert to the pressure that you, your colleagues and services will be under as you respond to the new Covid-19 variant. We understand…

South East London ICS sees collaborative success from Covid-19 vaccination programme

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As a lead employer, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust took the initiative of launching the roll-out of a collaborative bank across the South East London integrated care system…

HSJ Partnership Awards Finalists 2021

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Allocate is proud to be supporting Bolton NHS Foundation Trust as a finalist in the HSJ Partnership Awards 2021. Having been shortlisted as a finalist for the ‘Information Sharing and…

Sustainability for the Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Programme

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Rupert Clarke, Programme Director at Allocate Software, writes: The UK Covid-19 vaccination programme continues to gather pace. As I write this post more than 15 million people have received at…

Improve staff fulfilment and visibility for your vaccine delivery with a collaborative bank

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Implemented in less than two weeks and utilising your existing technology, CloudStaff helps you to gain access to more staff from surrounding trusts to specifically support your vaccine shift fulfilment.…

Customer FAQs for NHS Foundry | Vaccine Roster Data Requirement

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Following the webinar that took place on January 14th we are pleased to give customers access to an FAQ document on the Customer Support Portal. We captured the questions from…

Help to increase your Bank fill rates with InstantPay | Free for HealthRoster customers

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We want to do all that we can to help healthcare organisations during the Covid-19 response. Our simple InstantPay tool allows staff to access the wages they’ve earned as soon…

NHS Foundry: Vaccine Roster Data Requirement

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Allocate is working alongside NHS England and NHS Improvement to provide continued customer guidance and support on using your existing technology when delivering the national vaccine program. HealthRoster data feed…

Allocate Covid-19 Contact Tracing Reporting Service

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Allocate's Covid Contact Tracing Reporting Service can help your organisation in conjunction with your current methods. It can help you track staff members with Covid-19 related unavailability and trace all…

Webinar: Dr Marti Balaam and Kathryn Lovewell: Time for NHS staff to focus on self-compassion’

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Dr Marti Balaam and Kathryn Lovewell discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the NHS workforce and their wellbeing. The webinar explores how far we’ve come, recognising where we are now…

Lesson from Covid: Learning from a Community Health Trust

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Given the breadth of services on offer, in order to effectively manage its workforce, CLCH has been using Allocate’s HealthRoster e-rostering solution for five years to ensure that all units…

Healthcare workers may wait up to 6 weeks between Dec/Jan paydays

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Extended economic downturn after two national lockdowns and a potential 6 weeks between December and January paydays means increased financial pressure for your staff. Most NHS staff will be paid…

How technology has underpinned NHS Covid-19 operation

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How technology has underpinned NHS Covid-19 operation Leigh Malyon, Head of Medics from Allocate looks at how workforce management software has enabled healthcare teams to take a proactive approach to…

University Hospitals Dorset – how e-rostering got us through COVID

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Article by Gary Flood  for diginomica NHS Trust says use of the Allocate app was key to delivering patient service during the novel coronavirus crisis. Article from diginomica We've all…

Vaccine Delivery. Roster Resources

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Many of our customers are planning and mobilising their workforce and wider staffing resources to delivery national vaccine programs.  Allocate is working alongside these programs to ensure that organisations existing…

Covid Webinar: Lessons Learnt from the First Wave and Responding to the Second Wave

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If you would like to speak to a member of the Allocate team about how we can support you through your Covid-19 response, please email: heretohelp@allocatesoftware.com

Time for NHS Staff to focus on self-compassion

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Allocate spoke to Dr Marti Balaam, Senior Teaching Fellow in Nursing Studies and Lead for Professionalism and Wellbeing at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and Director/Founder of The Compassion…

Letterkenny University Hospitals: Implementing eRostering in Ireland and the Covid-19 Impact

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On Tuesday 8th September, Joe Conway – Ireland Account Manager from Allocate Software hosted a webinar – ‘Improving staff management and work-life balance’ with Letterkenny University Hospital. Throughout the webinar,…

How technology is driving an evolution in healthcare learning and development

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Featured article in HPMA Newsletter - October 2020 Shona Blackhall, DevelopMe+ Product Manager Allocate Software Covid-19 caused wide-scale disruption within health and care, revealing the skills of its workforce to…

Creating trust-wide multidisciplinary e-rosters in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

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The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which has recently merged with Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to become University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, provides healthcare for…

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust knew it needed to redeploy almost its entire staff to the Covid-19 wards in order to manage acute patient demand, and…

Allocate changes the face of clinical electronic rostering with HealthRoster 11, the staff experience focused next generation version of its leading Healthcare People Management platform

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Working closely alongside nine health and care organisations HealthRoster 11 frees up time to care, supports rostering on the move and makes it easier for organisations to create people and…

Pathways to Agency Success

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On Wednesday 2 September 2020, Allocate hosted a webinar with speakers John Webster, 247Time Product Manager, and Katie Milligan, Customer Success Analyst. The aim of the webinar was to share…

Safe Staff Deployment to Protect Your Workforce

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Safe Staff Deployment to Protect Your Workforce Respond to Any Crisis Whether it’s COVID-19 or another emergency, when a crisis strikes you must act quickly to provide information and support…

Allocate OneView launches its solution for getting Back to Sea

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Everyone attending remains optimistic about the future. We recently hosted a live webinar with guest panellist Joost van Ree, Partner Relations Director at Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), to discuss the…

Dynamic Contact Tracking is as Easy as 1-2-3

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Isolate high-risk infection scenarios As COVID-19 spread across the globe, the virus spurred countries to be more aggressive about letting ships into port. Countries began imposing travel restrictions and closing…

COVID-19 hints and tips for the next stage: video available now

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Our latest Here to Help webinar looked at the latest COVID-19 hints and tips for our customers as we transition in to the next stage of the pandemic. The webinar…

Free webinar on addressing the next stage of COVID-19

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Join our Here to Help webinar that looks at the latest COVID-19 hints and tips for our customers as we transition in to the next stage of the pandemic, presented…

Get your free COVID-19 absence report

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As part of our ongoing support to customers during the pandemic, we have created a free Allocate Insight report detailing your organisations COVID-19 absence data. This comprehensive report, generated and…

UK: Allocate opens up absence tracking to support the COVID-19 response with NHS organisations adding over 57,000 new healthcare professionals to HealthRoster in a matter of weeks

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Live absence tracking data helps reveal the true picture of COVID-19 impact on staff availability 4th May 2020, UK - NHS organisations across the UK have added over 57,000 new…

UK: Hello from our team in Harrogate

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Colleagues from our Dynama business as well as some familiar Allocate faces are all onsite in Harrogate supporting our customers who are ensuring the region has additional capacity as part of its…

Hello from our team in Harrogate

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Hello from our team in Harrogate Colleagues from our Dynama business as well as some familiar Allocate faces are all onsite in Harrogate supporting our customers who are ensuring the…

The North West Nightingale Hospital is live with HealthRoster Optima in just 11 days

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The North West Nightingale Hospital is live with HealthRoster Optima in just 11 days Today the hospital welcomed its first staff on shift, each member of staff have access to…

HealthRoster Optima deployed to e-roster staff at NHS Nightingale Hospital London

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HealthRoster Optima deployed to e-roster staff at NHS Nightingale Hospital London We wanted to share with all customers that the HealthRoster Optima SaaS solution has been deployed in just 9…

Additional information from nhs allocate covid-19 webinar

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Following on from last week's webinar, ‘Important HealthRoster update - COVID-19 absence recording and ESR impacting pay’, we wanted to provide you with some additional information. As per the below…

Join our third hints and tips webinar to help

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Webinar: Wednesday 1st April 2020, at 16:00 GMT During this webinar, Simon Courage will provide a further update on absence recording and ESR and how this will impact pay in…

Join a webinar delivered with Allocate and NHS England & NHS Improvement on absence reporting for COVID sickness

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Following the communication on the 20th March from the Chief People Officer for NHS England and NHS Improvement we would like to invite customers to join a 30 minute webinar…

Allocate has announced that customers are able to track absence management for all staff, even those not rostered to help with national absence reporting

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Accurately recording absence is vital as organisations respond to COVID-19. Today, HealthRoster Optima provides the most accurate and real-time view of absence for nursing in the NHS, feeding the ESR…

Join our second hints and tips webinar to help

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Following the webinar held last Wednesday 11 March, we are holding a new webinar on Friday 20th March at 11am to support you with further hints and tips on how…

Introducing our ongoing training courses to support unplanned staffing gaps

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We know roster, medical HR and temp staffing teams will need to be prepared should they have absence in their teams. To help we will be running roster clinics every…

COVID-19 and Allocate events

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We have taken the difficult decision not to hold a number of future planned events as we understand the impact COVID-19 is having, or is likely to have, on our…

Allocate preparedness

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We have a full business continuity plan (BCP) that is designed to ensure we maintain business services throughout. We are also focused on ensuring we look after the well-being of…

COVID-19 Hints and tips for customers using Allocate’s Workforce Technology to support the response

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The team at Allocate understand the impact COVID-19 is having or is likely to have on our customers. In a period where there is an anticipated increase in staff sickness…

Join our first hints and tips webinar

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We will be running a webinar on Wednesday 11th March at 1PM that will demonstrate key tasks that can be undertaken in the software to help you with deployment, tracking…

Our clinical teams

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Many Allocate staff are clinically trained or have worked in other healthcare roles. Where they are able to do so, we will be supporting these staff to step into NHS…

Briefing: COVID-19 and Allocate

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We understand the impact COVID-19 is having or is likely to have on our customers. In a period where there is likely to be increased staff sickness and extra demand…

Wage accessibility plays a key part in shift fulfilment and staff financial wellbeing

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COVID 19 has been the biggest challenge to hit the NHS since its creation in 1948. Amongst the many challenges faced as a result of the pandemic, adequate staffing has…