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Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust selects new Staff Bank Management System from SMART - 15/04/2008

SMART, the workforce management software provider has been selected to provide Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust with its new staff bank management system to enable improved deployment and administration of the Trusts 1,275 plus nursing and administrative bank staff.

Mark Ingram, Temporary Staffing Manager at the Trust said, "As a foundation for the future the Trust has committed to put in place the right organisation and structure to deliver a high quality service for the provision of a flexible temporary workforce. To satisfy the critical success factors of operational, financial, reporting and security requirements for the provision of temporary staff, we have chosen the SMART system to help us achieve our goals and reduce any unnecessary use of agency staff, therefore minimising our costs in this area. One of the added benefits of the SMART system is that it can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection, which will enable our bank staff and managers to register their work requirements at their convenience".

The brand new staff bank management system was chosen over six other competitor systems in the market to replace a previously manual system. Using a combination of data held in the ESR HR & Payroll System and the SMART Bank Management Solution the Trust will have full visibility of available bank staff, be able to view staff training and skill profiles, conform to security and legislative requirements and easily record bank working hours.

Tristan Spencer, Director Health Market at SMART is delighted with their decision to select the SMART bank solution and says, "This represents another significant step for us in offering a fully integrated workforce planning tool to the NHS. We have listened to trust requirements and ensured that our new staff bank management system meets the current needs of the NHS, which helps to reduce overall costs of temporary staffing and helps to improve the quality of patient care, something that we are proud to be part of".

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.

The SMART solutions incorporate eRostering including team based self-rostering and auto-rostering as well as fully automated time and attendance, absence management, bank administration and monitoring of working time legislation. This unique breadth of functionality enables Trusts to improve their staff productivity and efficiency with significant reductions in: bank, agency, administration and absence costs.

In 2001, SMART was selected by the NHS and McKesson as the best of breed provider of eRostering and Time and Attendance solutions for the National ESR programme. As a result SMART is uniquely positioned to provide proven secure, reliable and fully automated ESR integration. The SMART application and its interfaces to ESR have been rigorously tested and accepted by ESR.

Established in 1986, 550 organisation worldwide benefit from SMART's solutions and services. The SMART NHS installed base is growing rapidly, with 19 Trusts contracted at 1st March 2008, including University Hospital Birmingham, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trusts and Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust.

If you would like further information or an image to support this release please contact:

Lucy Caudle, Marketing Manager, SMART
Telephone: 01438 822229
Email: lucyc@smart-workforce.com
NHS Website: www.smart-rostering.co.uk