Digital solutions like MLM and TeamNet offer more than just technology – they serve as transformative solutions to promote system-wide efficiency and resilience.
ICBs are at the forefront of healthcare delivery, charged with navigating an increasingly complex landscape. They grapple with the challenges of maintaining high standards while driving efficiencies, and, crucially, attracting and retaining their workforce for continuous service delivery. In this context, digital solutions like MLM and TeamNet offer more than just technology – they serve as transformative solutions to promote system-wide efficiency and resilience.
Here are three key areas where this integrated technology is reshaping the future of healthcare workforce management:
1. Redefining Utilisation and Engagement
The amalgamation of MLM’s robust staff bank technology and TeamNet’s comprehensive HR and workforce modules is a game-changer. It consolidates the entire staff management process – from sourcing to booking and managing – on a single, unified platform. This integrated approach translates to fewer login details, reduced on-boarding redundancy, and ultimately, drives enhanced adoption and utilisation across practices and PCNs.
2. Upholding Standards and Championing Efficiency:
In the face of rising pressures, including escalating energy costs, and practice closures, PCNs must not only ensure the delivery of effective and safe patient care but also uphold stringent CQC standards. In the case of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS, the ICB leveraged the dual power of TeamNet + MLM. The platform’s all-inclusive approach means it serves all healthcare professionals – not just locum GPs – enabling comprehensive HR and rota management.
Furthermore, TeamNet’s distinctive feature allows PCNs to directly integrate their ARRS workforce into member practices’ rotas. This way, practices can manage all staff members, regardless of their employment status, directly from the platform, enhancing workforce planning and bolstering the evidence-base for CQC inspections.
3. Boosting Capacity and Service Delivery Through workforce Retention:
A fundamental goal for ICSs like Nottingham and Nottinghamshire is the creation of a resilient digital staff bank that can outpace the limitations of traditional Chambers and previous marketplace staff bank models. The unique integration of MLM within the system levels the playing field by standardising rates, mitigating competition, and enhancing recruitment.
Moreover, TeamNet + MLM has transformed the way ICSs build locum communities and manage flexible working arrangements. The results speak for themselves: Over the last six months, more than 1,772 shifts have been filled within Nottinghamshire alone. This success is not just about numbers; it’s also about fostering a supportive environment that bolsters staff morale, eases access to mandatory training, shares clinical knowledge, and offers tools to alleviate administrative burdens.
In essence, the digital transformation spearheaded by My Locum Manager and TeamNet is equipping ICBs with the resources they need to face the future. Not just as a solution to today’s challenges, but as a strategic enabler, guiding the healthcare sector towards unparalleled system-wide efficiency and resilience.
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