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Nurse rosters and shift fill

AI nurse rostering and last-minute shift filling

Rosters are drafted within your rules and skill mix, and when someone calls in sick the right bank staff are offered the shift first.

01 today

The problem

Ward managers build rosters by hand around requests, skills, contracts and safe staffing levels. Every sickness call means phone calls and texts, and gaps often end up with expensive agency staff. Unfair rosters drive people to leave.

02 the run

What the AI does

  1. Step 1: Reads staff contracts, skills, leave and preferences from your workforce system.
  2. Step 2: Drafts the roster to meet the safe staffing levels and skill mix you set, sharing nights and weekends fairly.
  3. Step 3: Shows managers why each shift was assigned and where the rules could not be met.
  4. Step 4: When someone calls in sick, offers the shift to suitable bank and part-time staff in order, by app or SMS.
  5. Step 5: Logs fills and gaps, and reports agency use and fairness by ward each month.

paused: waiting for a person to approve

03 human in the loop

Where a person approves

The ward manager approves the roster and every change. Safe staffing decisions, such as moving a nurse between wards, stay with the nurse in charge.

04 after

What changes

Rosters take less of a manager's week, gaps are filled faster from your own staff, and agency spend falls. Staff see a fairer roster.

Case studyFairer nurse rosters and faster gap-filling from your own staffThe rollout, what to measure, a worked example and the research behind it.

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