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Flexible and stress-free temporary staff management
One of the key challenges faced by NHS Trusts and healthcare organisation is the increasing demand, and associated workforce shortages.
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Understand workforce trends and adapt to service needs
Our background as workforce development experts, means we appreciate the complex issues that lead to increased expenditure on agency staff. However, change is coming. More so now than ever before, organisations are looking at ways to pro-actively reduce and better manage the need for agency staff. Our chosen partners, Patchwork Health, are a key part of this revolution and Realtime has hidden solutions too.
With Realtime, you can easily understand existing workforce trends and identify peak times when demand is particularly high. This data, combined with support from our expert rostering consultants, can help to plan for the future, and avoid the unnecessary crippling costs of agency staff.
Partnerships that work for you: Our partnership with award-winning bank staff app Patchwork, provides you with peace of mind that costs can be easily managed, and shifts can be readily filled as and when you need. With simple but effective partnerships that really benefit the sector, we can support NHS Trusts of any size with a total workforce solution that really saves time and money.
Monitor your workforce trends: With Realtime, you can easily highlight the duties and clinical activities that urgently need cover, the reasons why, and associated costs to provide in-depth reports across the organisation. This unrivalled data is the first step to understanding the workforce trends that may be resulting in unnecessary and crippling agency costs.
Clinical events planner
It’s important for every healthcare organisation and NHS Trust to get their roster right for a range of complex and ever-evolving clinical activities. In Realtime Rostering, you can easily allocate staff to a range of clinical activities in advance including time on wards, in theatre or for specific job plans.
Rostering integrations
We work closely with healthcare organisations of every size to understand the complex systems and protocols needed to manage the workforce safely. Our development team are continually working to ensure our systems talk to each other, so that you can achieve total workforce visibility and effectively manage rostering along with other daily tasks.
Doctors Rostering System (DRS)
DRS (Doctors Rostering System) is the only hassle-free medical rostering compliance tool developed for the NHS, by the NHS. Working hand in hand with NHS Employers and the British Medical Association (BMA), DRS is developed and maintained to ensure our roster is fully compliant.
Book a free initial demo
Available virtually, we’ll show you all the key features that NHS organisations trust to accurately and safely manage staff rosters, designed specifically for the needs of the health sector.

Who uses our eRostering solutions?
We’ve helped hundreds of organisations use our eRostering system to its full potential – seamlessly integrating into their existing systems, while measuring effectiveness and ROI.



I’ve found Realtime to be really good value and it definitely has the potential to save us money in the long run. The Realtime system is also a big time-saver and so easy to navigate; the response across has the organisation has been really positive.
Iain Elrick, Project Manager for Workforce Planning and Redesign, NHS Grampian
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