The BackgroundOur sister company, Holt Doctors, were appointed as master vendor to United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULH) and two other Trusts in 2016. The relationship has been very successful with the Trust seeing significant benefits in terms of savings on agency rates, high fill rates and the increased efficiencies in utilising the LMS IT portal for agency bookings and Direct Engagement.
The challenge
Whilst the Trust already had the facility to use LMS to run their own Bank of medical locums, this was an area where they had limited resources to focus. Consequently, they had trouble controlling rates, difficulty in coordinating across departments, and low engagement from doctors.
In particular:
- The Trust were reliant on the same pool of doctors – with bookings agreed locally within departments
- With rates and shifts agreed within departments they were only visible to finance once worked/paid – causing difficulties for forecasting/accruals
- The Trust’s team had limited capability to monitor and maintain compliance for any bank workers no longer employed (and working “”as and when”)
The solution
Agile Workforce Services now provide ULH with a managed bank solution – implemented with no disruption at all to the Trust’s own medical staffing team, and which provides:
Key aims
- Dedicated team managing the on-boarding, compliance and booking of bank candidates
- Ongoing retention, recruitment and attraction programme to grow the Bank
- Auto-enrolment of employees joining the Trust on to Bank
- 24/7 support, and training, for candidates and the Trust
- An end to end booking system (using LMS) to ensure a fully integrated approach
- Advanced white labelled APP staff bank technology – increased engagement and flexibility for candidates
- The managed bank for ULHT has been live since 2nd March 2020 and achieved considerable results.
Key aims
ULH needed a solution with market leading technology at its centre, combined with a team of specialists and the continuity of resources to really drive long term sustainable success.
- Increased engagement by their own medical doctors to work via the Bank – with equal access
- Marketing and communications support to grow the Bank
- Fully managed retention, on-boarding, registration, compliance, booking and payment processes
- Increased control and visibility of forward spend on bank – rate authorisation controls
- Assurance on compliance of candidates
- Adherence with Working Time Directive
- Reduced reliance on agencies
- Increased bank fill rates
- Savings
For more information call 01756 860023 or email the team on [email protected]