Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_8481

Internal Reference Number: FOI_8481

Date Request Received: 21/02/2025 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 10/03/2025 00:00:00

This response was sent via: By Email

Request Summary: Rostering & Self- Rostering

Request Category: Private Individuals

 
Question Number 1:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding Rostering and Self-Rostering. Please can you complete the below questions:

Please provide the rostering solution used for the below staffing groups. Where more than one supplier is used for each staff group, please provide the name of each supplier.

· Medical & Dental

· Nursing & Health Care Assistants

· Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied Health Professionals

· Administration and Estates

 
Answer To Question 1:
Medical & Dental – RLDatix (Allocate Optima) and CLW RotaMap

· Nursing & Health Care Assistants – RLDatix (Allocate Optima)

· Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied Health Professionals - RLDatix (Allocate Optima)

· Administration and Estates - RLDatix (Allocate Optima)
 
Question Number 2:
Please list below the staffing groups where e-rostering is currently live and being used?
 
Answer To Question 2:
Medical and Dental
Nursing and Midwifery
Estates and Ancillary
Allied Health Professionals
Additional Professional Scientific and Technical
HealthCare Scientists
Students
 
Question Number 3:
Please tick the below Medical Specialities that are currently rostered on the system

· General Medicine

· General Surgery

· Anaesthetics

· Obstetrics and Gynaecology
 
Answer To Question 3:
· General Medicine - partially

· General Surgery – partially

· Anaesthetics -fully as on different rostering system

· Obstetrics and Gynaecology - partially

The Trust are currently in the process of rolling out HealthRoster across all Medical areas hence the comments above
 
Question Number 4:
What percentage of workforce are rostered on the system? Please list the percentages by the staffing groups listed below-

· Medical & Dental

· Nursing & Health Care Assistants

· Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied Health Professionals

· Administration and Estates
 
Answer To Question 4:
Medical & Dental – 30%

· Nursing & Health Care Assistants – 77%

· Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied Health Professionals – 84%

· Administration and Estates – 66%
 
Question Number 5:
What is the contract start date for your rostering supplier/suppliers? Please list the name of the supplier and contract start date.
 
Answer To Question 5:
RLDatix – 30 November 2022
CLW - 9/12/2024
 
Question Number 6:
What is the contract end date for your rostering supplier/suppliers? Please list the name of the supplier and contract end date.
 
Answer To Question 6:
RLDatix - 27 February 2026
CLW - 08 December 2027
 
Question Number 7:
What was the annual cost of your rostering supplier/ suppliers for the financial year 22/23 (April 2022 - March 2023)?
 
Answer To Question 7:
RLDatix - £21,668 (ex. VAT)
CLW Rotamap - £27,900 (ex. VAT)
 
Question Number 8:
Did the organisation use a framework to procure your rostering supplier/ suppliers? Please state the name of the supplier and framework it was procured from.
 
Answer To Question 8:
SBS Framework via Softcat
 
Question Number 9:
From the table below please indicate which interfaces are being used and at what frequency?

Interface

In/Out Daily Weekly Monthly Ad Hoc
ESR Generic Attendance Inbound Interface Out
ESR Generic Absence Inbound Interface Out
ESR Generic Outbound Interface In
E-Job Planning
In/Out
Junior Doctors
In/Out
Staffbank / Agency In/Out
Identity Provider Servers In/Out
 
Answer To Question 9:
ESR Generic Attendance Inbound Interface Out – Weekly/Monthly
ESR Generic Absence Inbound Interface Out – Weekly/Monthly
ESR Generic Outbound Interface In - Daily
 
Question Number 10:
Self Rostering

- Does your organisation use self rostering? (If yes, please complete the below questions. If no, please ignore)

- Please list below the staffing groups where self- rostering is currently being used?

-. What percentage of your workforce is currently utilizing self-rostering?

- Are manual or technology based mechanisms used to facilitate self-rostering?



 
Answer To Question 10:
Nursing - just scoping wider roll out across the organisation following pilot project.

-. What percentage of your workforce is currently utilizing self-rostering? 2% as only rolled out team based rostering (self) on 2 wards - project being scoped to roll out across the Trust

- Are manual or technology based mechanisms used to facilitate self-rostering? Technology based mechanisms

 
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