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Trust-wide eRostering solution for Gateshead Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - 01/02/2008

SMART, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with a view to implementing the SMART eHL workforce management solution trust-wide to remove manual timesheets, improve payroll accuracy and rostering.

The 3500-employee trust is the first NHS trust to make the commitment for a complete time & attendance and electronic rostering solution across all staff groups. The web-based system will be used with biometric hand readers to ensure accurate recording of working hours.

Tristan Spencer, Director Health Market at SMART is delighted with their decision to go trust-wide and says, "This is a huge leap forward for NHS trusts and shows commitment to accuracy, fairness and transparency regarding NHS working hours. In our experience when talking to nurses who use our system, they say they love it because it is fair and we feel this is a strong case for use across the wider NHS community".

About SMART

SMART is the leading provider of true web-based workforce management solutions, delivering fully integrated workforce management across all nursing, medical, administrative and support services in the NHS.

In 2001, the NHS and McKesson selected SMART as the best of breed provider of e-Rostering and Time and Attendance solutions for the National ESR programme.

The SMART NHS installed base is growing rapidly, with 19 trusts contracted at 1st February 2008, including University Hospital Birmingham, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust.

The SMART solutions incorporate e-Rostering including team based self-rostering and auto-rostering as well as fully automated time and attendance, absence management, access control and monitoring of European Working Time Regulations. This unique breadth of functionality enables trusts to improve their staff productivity and efficiency with significant reductions in bank, agency, administration, absence and overtime costs.

Visit our NHS specific website at www.smart-rostering.co.uk or call us for further information regarding our solutions for the NHS market.

Keriann Shaw, Marketing Executive, SMART

Tel: 01438 822222