This procurement has been published by Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, acting on behalf of Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH).

It establishes a contract for the provision of an E-Rostering (Workforce Management) Systems.

The changing health and social care landscape in the city of Leeds (West Yorkshire, UK) will have a number of workforce implications for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust:

— Increasing clinical demand combined with limited funding growth will require the workforce to be more efficient in the delivery of front-line care;

— A transformation in the skill mix we require is inevitable and some groups of care professionals will be in short supply;

— Staff are more likely to work in multiple care settings and neighbourhoods, even moving between neighbourhoods in the same week.

Currently within LCH Services, there are multiple manual processes in use to allocate work and create the off-duty rosters. These are labour intensive processes and have significant limitations to the capacity and demand data and intelligence available to inform staff and management while creating rosters. Additionally, rosters may not be planned optimally in line with patient demand, and this, combined with the time needed to manually plan and allocate work, results in avoidable pressure on our services and staff.

LCH have therefore sourced an effective e-Rostering Workforce Management system to overcome these issues.