Health Care, Time-and-Attendance & ROI

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust deploys SMART to streamline processes and reduce costs (Press Release)

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is using SMART, provider of solutions for workforce management, to streamline processes that save time and money and release valuable resources back to patient care. To date, the Trust has deployed SMART’s e-Rostering, Time & Attendance and eExpenses software to support 1,800 clinical staff including 1,500 nurses and plans to expand the system to the rest of the organisation by July 2012. Since implementing SMART, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Trust has generated savings of nearly £500,000 per year.

Before SMART, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust relied entirely on manual processes to record staff time, administer shifts and expenses claims. This approach was not only labour intensive but it was prone to errors. At the same time, the Foundation Trust faced the same challenges as most NHS organisations to reduce costs.