DRS Realtime: the doctors rostering system

E-rostering: delivering better healthcare more efficiently

DRS Realtime, the award winning doctors rostering system from Skills for Health, is a cost effective online solution for creating compliant doctors rotas and delivering smooth day to day working for medical staff. DRS Realtime is an easy to use, tried and tested system operational in over 150 acute hospitals.

With the added functionality of Scheduled Events to improve consultant job planning, DRS Realtime offers a truly bespoke solution for your rostering requirements.

Using DRS Realtime organisations can create effective day-to-day rosters, up to a year in advance, ensuring a better balance of staff are available throughout the day. DRS Realtime takes into account annual leave, shift swaps and unexpected absences allowing you to predict staffing shortfalls so cover can be arranged in good time, thus reducing your reliance on locums.

DRS Realtime incorporates Scheduled Events, a module allowing activities such as surgical lists, clinics, ward rounds, locum shifts and any other programmed activities to be integrated within rotas, providing a single reference point for clinicians and those staff who support their daily working.

DRS Realtime allows you to keep the whole medical service up to date in “real-time”. You can make the latest roster changes, advertise available internal locum shifts and publicise and facilitate swaps. All this is done in a secure online environment via any web based device, including smartphones.

DRS Realtime is proven to deliver greater efficiency, cost savings and a year on year return on investment; a typical license fee for an acute hospital can be as low as £15,000 per annum.

Key features and benefits of DRS Realtime

• Scheduled Events integrates consultant job planning and rostering
• Enables rosters to be managed across multiple sites
• Automatic alerts for New Deal & EWTD breaches - help avoid financial penalties
• Accessible online to all relevant staff at anytime and via Smartphone
• Robust auditing and reporting functionality
• Low cost solution that delivers significant savings and return
• Significantly reduces requirement for locums and associated costs
• Better use of senior staff’s time - consultants spend less time on scheduling

Training and support

We want to make sure you have all the support you need to successfully embed and use DRS Realtime in your organisation.

Our dedicated support helpdesk is staffed by experts in New Deal and EWTD compliant rotas and is available to anyone using our rostering solutions.

We also offer a range of training options – the Awareness and Foundation training provides unlimited access to our online portal and offers an overview of the system and step by step instructions to building your compliant rotas. The Practitioner level provides in-depth, face to face training for those staff responsible for creating and managing rosters.

"The tool has helped us reduce locum use and administration costs and as a result it has been adopted as one of our Trust’s Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) projects."

Andrea Padgeon
Medical Staffing Officer, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

If you would like to speak to someone to explore how DRS Realtime can really help your organisation, please contact your country or regional representative or request a call back.