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Achieve financial benefits with SMART at July HFMA FT Conference - 20/06/2008

SMART will be exhibiting at the HFMA FT event to discuss how financial benefits can be achieved through SMART's revolutionary eRostering solution. Through the implementation of eRostering benefits include savings in excess of £500,000 per annum.

The SMART solution is the only 100% web based system that synchronises with ESR, incorporating 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 is the second consecutive year that SMART has the opportunity to communicate the benefits of its Workforce Planning solution to both existing Foundation Trusts and those aspiring to this status.

These benefits include:

Reduced costs of temporary/bank staff

Reduction in payroll errors

Accurate payroll

Reduced administration

Reductions in absence costs

Synchronisation with ESR

SMART will be available on stand 32 to discuss the benefits of SMART's workforce planning solutions.

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 21 Trusts contracted at 1st June 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:

Keriann Shaw, Marketing Executive, SMART
Telephone: 01438 822211
Email: kerianns@smart-workforce.com
NHS Website: www.smart-rostering.co.uk