This article is about the best approach to Demand and capacity management for GP practices. Background Our data analysis indicates that demand for appointments in GP practices tends to be more predictable, while capacity fluctuates significantly. This volatility in capacity is largely due to a lack of detailed planning, which is itself a result of…
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Ditching the spreadsheets. Rotering in modern general practice
Tempo provides a complete workforce management solution for primary care, replacing inefficient spreadsheets and disjointed systems with one seamless platform. Across the spectrum, Tempo reduces the time taken to complete daily operational tasks, saving a wholetime equivalent for a medium sized practice. Here’s what Tempo offers: Item Integrated Time versioned Workforce & Capacity ✓ Capacity…
Tempo for the practice manager and all operational staff
Empowering views of operational data, enables you to see clearly and to plan for targets. Clinical systems offer very little in the way of strategic planning, because they don’t capture that data. We realised that within practice operational planning and day-to-day practice operations, there is a huge amount of important useful data being generated and…
Managing rollover in leave calculations
Tempo does rollover calculations on a schedule, on the first day of a new financial year – applying the rollover from the FY just ended into the new FY just started When we use the button visible to Hub admin with leave management permission, to force a recalculation, it simply makes this script run again…
Staff users consent for use of information
Below are 2 screen shots related to two places that a staff user gives consent for their information to be stored and used, within Tempo. The first is on account registration and the second is when joining a Hub (an organisation within the network) The initial consent on account registration relates to a GPnetworks privacy…
Unable to assign a staff member to a session
There are few possible reasons for this: Drop downs are designed to provide intelligence – that is to say that they try to show staff names, ranked, according to a useful set of rules Eligibility Suitability Equity The first of these, eligibility, is what could cause a staff member not to show in a drop…
Not able to self-assign
I put on a session in my Tempo rota but some or all my eligible staff cannot see the session in their Staff app Schedule. Reasons: Main reason: the session is not advertised for self-assignment. This is something set at the rota level or at the individual session level – by the rota team Other…
Demand and capacity management for GP practices
Taking control of rotering and workforce planning with our demand and capacity insights Author: Joe Aliferis 2023 Digital transformation Lead, Foundry Healthcare, Lewes CTO, GPnetworks Ltd Demand & capacity is a term that you see being increasingly used, in relation to Primary Care. NHS England has some helpful videos, articles and diagrams about demand and…
Capacity & segmentation of staff
This is a screen shot of the workforce management landing screen, in Tempo, showing the first ‘baked in’ segmentation of staff users for the organisation – according to their professional roles, as tabbed groups, each listing staff electronic records. Within those role groups staff are further divided into employment relationship to the organisation. The Teams…
Rotering in Tempo
Just new ways of seeing the same things and a simple interface that makes the complexity manageable and saves time Familiar things Tempo includes in an intelligent way Rooms Supervision Meetings Duty Equity Dependencies Rota templates Appointments CPD Admin Teams Leave rules What Tempo adds User week templates Organisational rota templates Week types Annual planner…
