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Strategic Partnership with NHSP
Strategic Partnership with NHSP.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n17 November 2009\n\n Allocate Software and NHS Professionals announce\n a Strategic Partnership to deliver fully integrated\n workforce management services to NHS organisations\n\nAllocate Software plc (AIM:ALL), the market leader in the provision of Healthcare workforce optimisation\nsolutions, and NHS Professionals, a Special Strategic Health Authority (NHSP), the largest provider of\nflexible staff managed services to the NHS, are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to deliver long-\nterm integrated services to NHS Trusts.\n\nFollowing a competitive tendering process for an e-Rostering partner, NHSP has chosen Allocate Software to\ndeliver these services exclusively. By adding e-Rostering to its core offering of managed flexible staff\nservices NHSP will be able to offer a complete managed workforce service. The partnership is significant\nbecause it will deliver tangible benefits to NHS Trusts by helping them to achieve major cost savings\nacross their substantive and flexible clinical and administrative workforce while continuing to maintain\noptimum standards of clinical care.\n\nTricia Hart, Director of Nursing and Patient Safety at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is\ndelighted by the announcement and comments: \"Managing our temporary workforce has become an increasingly\ncomplex and time consuming process for our ward managers. This partnership promises to reduce and in some\ncases eliminate the paperwork involved in rostering and timesheets through to payroll. This means our more\nexperienced nurses can be on the wards, supervising and supporting junior colleagues and attending to\npatient needs instead of filling in forms. It is critical that we have the right staff on the wards at all\ntimes so the highest levels of care can be maintained - to this end, I can see how this partnership will\nadd value and further enhance our drive to continually improve the quality of care to our patients\".\n\nIt is anticipated that the first implementations will be made in the early part of 2010. Key benefits to\nthe Trusts will be increased visibility of both demand and supply across their whole workforce, elimination\nof overtime working with replacement by flexible staff, and a major reduction of expensive agency staff\nusage.\n\nThis partnership builds on the existing Allocate Software relationship with ...