Benefits for GP Practices
- Skill mixes: DutyDoctor works with your team’s skills so the most appropriate clinician will be allocated to a shift. It works for administrative staff too.
- Timesaving: Cross-checking staff availability manually with your organisation’s requirements takes a long time and is prone to error and interruption. DutyDoctor tracks staff leave so rota generation is quick and highlights gaps in your cover.
- Convenience: Your practice rota is available to staff at home, work or on their smartphone. They can check the shifts they are supposed to work whenever they need to.
- Manage multiple sites: Not only can DutyDoctor schedule your practice rooms, but it can also work with branch sites.
- Error reduction: Planning a rota for lots of staff is tricky and slow. It only takes a tiny interruption to make an error. DutyDoctor prevents errors by design.
- Fill vacant shifts Practices can advertise shifts to your own staff as overtime, to a wider pool of approved locums or even export a list to an agency.
Benefits for PCNs and Federations
- Multi-site scaleability: DutyDoctor can run clinics across a wide area with multiple operational sites, complex opening patterns and large numbers of staff. Ideal for Extended Access, ARSS, Out-of-Hours and UTC services.
- Tap into a wider pool of staff: Building on the networks of staff already working for GP practices – it is quick and easy for them to share their qualification documents and come on board to work.
- Targeted vacancy notification: Empty shifts are actively notified to appropriate staff, based on their skills, existing work patterns, and preferences. By reducing irrelevant messages, staff are more engaged and responsive to locum shifts of interest.
- Time savings and complexity: Attempting to fill large numbers of shifts is complex, especially filling the inevitable vacancies that occur. Instant booking and confirmation allow pre-approved staff to quickly fill gaps and save administrative time.
Benefits for Clinicians
- View Your Schedule: Whether you are working as a locum, or a regular doctor at a practice using DutyDoctor, you can see your full schedule of shifts online. You can plan and book your holidays too.
- Targeted vacancies: When you sign up to DutyDoctor you can choose where you would like to work and when. You only see vacancies that match your profile and availability, avoiding wasted time looking at a list of shifts you can’t or won’t work.
- Direct contracts: You negotiate and book with the employer – DutyDoctor is not an agency and doesn’t set your pay rate.
- Invoicing and pension: DutyDoctor allows you to quickly generate invoices or overtime claims for extra shifts that you work. NHS pension forms are on the way soon.
- Work with multiple organisations with minimum hassle: By uploading your compliance documents once, you can choose to instantly share them with all your employers.
Benefits for Event Companies
- Specialist Skills: Using DutyDoctor’s unique skill allocation system, you can make sure that only the right staff are offered work at your events. MSA registered? Blue light driver? PHEC? DipIMC? BHA registered? It’s easy.
- Tap into the wider pool: By joining the network of staff working for DutyDoctor, you can advertise vacancies to staff who may not previously have considered event work but be pleased to have a change form their day-to-day roles.
- Targeted alerts: Vacant shifts are only advertised to the suitable people, avoiding the difficulties of sending out general mailing lists, or leaving some people feeling left out.
- Easy tools for timesheets and billing: Tracking staff activity and shifts are easy – they can log actual activity on a timesheet and you can compare against planned time. Paying staff and invoicing clients becomes a lot quicker!
COVID Vaccination
DutyDoctor was a gamechanger for us at the Vaccination Centre. We suddenly found ourselves with this huge workforce and the solution helped us to manage that team and rota to administer 65k vaccines. We really appreciate all the help you gave and that you were so willing to let us use your tool! Thanks for… Read more “COVID Vaccination”
Medical Events Cover
MB Medical Solutions is an events company that provides qualified medical professionals to public, private and sporting events. The skill-based approach that DutyDoctor uses allows us to have fluid teams of nurse practitioners, paramedic practitioners, doctors, and others but still know that we have all the skills we need at the right places across an event. Read more “Medical Events Cover”
Extended Access at Scale
We operate extended access NHS GP clinics across Coastal West Sussex seven days a week at up to 20 different sites. Some sites are open daily, others as infrequently as every 2 weeks. This makes planning staff a real challenge. In three months, we had over 2300 shifts to fill and we would never have coped without DutyDoctor. Read more “Extended Access at Scale”
