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Rotamap's next Forum event will take place on 21st March 2025 in London, and is open to booking for all current and prospective users.

The current version of Rotamap's Service Specification for UK clients.

In September 2022, Rotamap implemented a long-term carbon accounting strategy. We have since measured and reported our carbon emissions, alongside releasing a Sustainability Report available for download in this article.

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A case study of how theatre planning in an NHS Trust has improved since the introduction of Rotamap services. We found that surgeons were assigned three days earlier on average, anaesthetists were assigned sixteen days earlier on average, on the day cancellations fell by 46 %, and extra anaesthetist sessions were reduced by 13 %.

This event was specifically for users of our services at NHS Trusts and Health Boards who are rolling out our All Doctor Rostering (ADR) services to all clinical teams across their entire organisation (or an entire Division).

The Rotamap team held our Autumn event on Friday 29th September 2023 at the Surgeons Quarter, Edinburgh. The day focused on how efficient departmental rotas provide the background of healthy NHS organisations by showcasing out latest features and ongoing developments and hearing from guest speakers from across the NHS.

Processing leave and extra data in CLWRota and Medirota for the purpose of transposing records onto external systems.

This article sets out how organisations can meet 100% of the e-rostering Levels of Attainment for doctor-led services.

Exchanging information about uncovered rota sessions and proposed locum cover

A comparison of UK Anaesthetics department data, before COVID-19 and now.

Our Autumn event took place on Friday 30th September 2022, at the RSA in London. The forum included talks from the Rotamap team and three guest speakers: Dr Nick Wisely from Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, and Eve Malcolm and Emily Taylor from East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

The current version of Rotamap's Service Specification for International clients.

The current version of Rotamap's Service Specification for Private Sector Clients

The current scope of Rotamap's interoperability with ESR.

Extracting department data from CLWRota or Medirota for integration with other services.

At our Spring event, Angus Mills and Georgia Hayllar presented our Spring 2022 benchmarking data packs. Work delivered, extra usage and absence data formed the basis of the discussion as we looked at the impact of COVID19 and the recovery of departments.

Our Spring event took place on March 30th 2022. The forum provided an opportunity to learn about All Doctor Rostering from the Rotamap team and guest speakers Sarah Fletcher, Service information and Digital Lead at Oxford University Hospital and Manish Thakrar, Medical E-rostering project lead at University hospitals of Leicester.

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An examination of the impact of COVID-19 on clinical service provision across 160 anaesthetic departments, identifying and discussing per-department and national trends

The October 2021 benchmarks were generated for our Autumn 2021 online forum. The benchmarking packs allow departments to anonymously compare different service metrics to other similar departments.

NHS England/Improvement announced that all Trusts must use e-rostering software for their clinical workforce, and set out a plan to create common interoperability standards to promote a digital ecosystem of modular services from different suppliers. This document summarises our current approach to interoperability, and how that reconciles with NHS England/Improvement's intentions.

Our Autumn online forum took place on Friday 1st October 2021. The forum included talks from the Rotamap team and two guest speakers: Dr Lee Walker, Consultant in Emergency & Specialist Medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester, and Dr Angus McKnight, Consultant Anaesthetist at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.

An online workshop for the newly released Shifts and Time Calculations features, taking place on Wed 8th Sep. This will be an opportunity to learn how to configure Shifts.

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We have released our latest benchmarking report, which includes data relating to the impact of Covid-19 on anaesthetic departments. An overview of the data can be seen here.

On Friday 26 March 2021, Rotamap hosted its first online forum for current and prospective users of CLWRota and Medirota in Australia and New Zealand. The forum included talks from the Rotamap team and 3 guest speakers.

At our online event in October 2020, we discussed common data trends and patterns from CLWRota and Medirota across the past 12 months, looking closely at the impact of COVID-19 on departmental activity, leave and cancellations.

Our inaugural online forum took place on Friday 30th October 2020. The forum included talks from the Rotamap team, as well as guest speaker Dr John Orton, Consultant Anaesthetist and Rota Master from Pennine Acute NHS Trust.

An analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the activity of UK anaesthetics departments, focusing on changes in all-department activity, cancellations and sickness.

Many of our users have been impacted by the operational issues imposed by COVID-19. This article details our response to COVID-19 and how we have developed new features and adapted our work to continue supporting our users.

Support for CLWRota and Medirota users facing COVID-19

Our third All Doctor Rostering event will be held on 6 December 2019 at the citizenM hotel in Tower Hill. We'll be discussing implementation stories, our plans for new feature developments and our response to NHS' s latest E-Rostering proposals.

Our Autumn 2019 event was held in London at Farmers and Fletchers, on Friday 04 October. The day featured talks from the Rotamap team as well as guest speaker Patrick Addison, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Rota Master from NHS Lothian.

The October 2019 benchmarks were sent out in advance of our Autumn 2019 event at Farmers and Fletchers in London. The benchmarking packs are compiled according to the report settings configuration in CLWRota and Medirota. Information on how to change CLWRota and Medirota report settings can be found in the Reports configuration guide.

In November 2018 NHS Improvement announced plans to develop required standards for NHS workforce deployment systems focusing on the requirements for electronic rostering, job planning, junior doctor and staff agency services. This document summarises the current status of NHSi's plans and Rotamap's views, as a specialist provider of electronic rostering services for doctors.

This article focuses on the home-care organisation Buurtzorg and the work of its CEO and founder, Jos de Blok. This provides some notes on Jos' presentation delivered as speaker at Rotamap's Spring 2019 Event, and a summary of Buurtzorg's innovative organisational structure and practices.

A sketch API for discussion relating to encouraging collaboration between providers of job planning, rostering and related services to hospital organisations, focusing on the NHS.

At our our Spring event at the RSA in London, Rachel Christie and Tom Bermejo presented our latest benchmarking data packs. Departmental extra usage p-charts, cancellations and predictive data were among some of the topics discussed.

Our spring 2019 event was held at the Royal Society of Arts in London on the 22 March 2019. The event featured talks from three guest speakers including Jos de Blok, CEO and founder of Buurtzorg, as we focused on the subject of balancing organisational structure with departmental flexibility.

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Our Winter 2018 ADR event provided a forum for implementation co- ordinators at Trusts rolling out All Doctor Rostering (ADR) projects and other interested parties to share ideas about effective rollout strategies and to provide feedback on our proposed system developments.

At our our Autumn 2018 event at the Stanley Building by King's Cross in Central London, Jacob Kirk presented an analysis based on Rotamap's system Service Reports. The talk focused on how heatmaps, p-charts and other visualisations of department data can help provide insights for improving department performance through reducing variation.

Our September 2018 event was a training day held on Friday 28 September 2018 at the Stanley Building in Central London. The theme of the event was "operational effectiveness" with three guest and seven Rotamap presentations.

At our our Spring event at the RSA in central London, Jacob Kirk and Tom Kelly presented our latest benchmarking data packs. Cross departmental analysis, surgical theatre and clinic usage and anaesthetic trainee activity were among some of the topics discussed.

The March 2018 Rotamap event was held on 23 March 2018 at the RSA in central London. The theme of the event was improving information flow.

Our autumn event was held on 5 October at The Library of Birmingham and had the theme of "situational awareness".

At our Autumn event at Birmingham new Medirota benchmarks were presented and discussed. These new benchmarks looked at the differences between theatre and clinic delivery across surgical specialties.

Anonymous data from CLWRota has been used to analyse over 618,000 trainee sessions in the article "An analysis of the delivery of anaesthetic training sessions in the United Kingdom" in Volume 72, Issue 11 of Anaesthesia.

The focus of this article is the benefits a collaborative approach can bring both to individual professionals but also the clients they work for and the institutions in which they work. It is instructive first to consider the problems that arise in attempts to adopt systems such as the central line checklist or the WHO theatre protocol.

The March 2017 benchmarks were presented and discussed at our Spring event at the RSA in central London. Jacob Kirk, Nick Edgeworth, Lee Stennet and Dr Mark Cox presented the data.

The March 2017 Rotamap event was held on 24 March 2017 at the RSA in central London. The theme of the event was Improving Performance and enabling teams to better work together.

This article explores the many challenges facing the introduction of a systematic, collaborative approach. Our argument is that how professionals work together is as important as the expertise that they bring, and that individual performance is inextricably linked with that of each member of the whole team involved in a procedure.

This is the first of three articles discussing aspects of team collaboration, particularly in a clinical setting. Each discusses important aspects of how the horizontal approach, as distinct from a highly individualised and professionalised vertical paradigm, can provide benefits to professional teams. This approach can also yield surprising insights that can hold value for the managers of the unit in question.

The Carter Report, published in February, highlighted high levels of variation across the NHS and set out 15 recommendations on action to be taken. We discuss what this means at a departmental level.

This September we conducted a survey to learn what people would most like to see in the CLWRota and Medirota mobile apps.

The second of our two Autumn events was held on 6 October 2016 at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh.

In the autumn of 2015 we held a series of smaller, regional events for CLWRota and Medirota. They were held in Bristol, Manchester and Newcastle.

The first of two Autumn events was held on 29 September 2016 at The Library in Birmingham.

The September 2016 benchmarks were presented at our series of regional events in Birmingham and Edinburgh. Jacob Kirk and Lee Stennet from Rotamap presented on combining a variety of data sources to improve service delivery.

To reflect our aims to help clinical teams to coordinate and collaborate across departments we have changed our company name to "Rotamap".

The March 2016 benchmarks were presented at the 2016 Rotamap event held at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in central London on 18 March 2016. Ollie Fielding from Rotamap presented on what data can do for your department.

The March 2016 Rotamap event was held on 18 March 2016 at the RSA in central London.

In autumn 2015 we held a series of regional events across the UK for CLWRota and Medirota. The first event was held in Bristol on 10 September 2015. At these events we presented our latest set of departmental data and benchmarks.

The March 2015 benchmarks were presented at the 2015 Rotamap event held at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in central London on 20 March 2015. Ollie Fielding from Rotamap presented his Good Department Checklist and 5 Department Comparison benchmark-related talks at this event.

The March 2015 Rotamap event was for both CLWRota for anaesthetists and Medirota for surgeons and medics. The event took take place on Friday 20 March 2015 at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in central London.

As part of our Rotamap event in March 2015 we put forward a checklist to outline some of the valuable measures a department could use to gauge its efficiency by taking closer look at five departments who have improved their service using different approaches and what they were doing differently to make their service more efficient.

The latest set of benchmarks were presented at the 2014 CLWRota Forum in the Battlebridge Room at King's Place, Central London on 19 September 2014. The benchmarks were presented by Dr Mark Cox of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and Dr Jason Wilson of Imperial College Healthcare.

The 2014 Forum was held on Friday 19 September at King's Place in central London. The event included presentations on making the best use of data to help the department improve and use of flexible sessions as well as the latest cross-departmental benchmarking data.

The latest set of benchmarks were presented at the 2014 Training & Management Day event in the Battlebridge Room at King's Place, Central London on 20 March 2014. Along with some new analysis of solo activity split between junior and senior trainee grades, two year benchmark data for departments with the requisite historical information were also shown.

The 2014 Training & Management Day took place on 20th March 2014 at Kings' Place in Central London, and was attended by over 100 existing and prospective clients comprising of consultant anaesthetists, managers and administrators. The day was split into two parts: a training session in the morning and an afternoon session devoted largely to management-related issues.

The latest set of benchmarks were presented at the 2013 Annual Forum event in the Battlebridge Room at King's Place, Central London on 19 September 2013. Among the new developments in how department data can be analysed were a series of graphs comparing expected numbers of departmental sessions with the number of sessions delivered.

The 2013 Forum was held on 19 September 2013 in the Battlebridge Room at King's Place, close to the King's Cross and St. Pancras stations in central London. The event included presentations from several external speakers, talks from the Rotamap team and the presentation of the latest benchmark reports.

The 2013 March Management & Training Day took place on 21st of March 2013at the canal-side Battlebridge Room at King's Place, close to King's Cross station. The event was attended by close to 90 managers, clinical office holders and senior administrators who wished to learn more about CLWRota and the team's plans for improving both its operational and management functions.

The March 2013 benchmarks were presented at the March 2013 Training & Management Day, held at the Battlebridge Room at King's Place. Apart from presenting the expanded set of measures first released at the September 2012 forum, we introduced a new standard deviation curve of individual productivity rates for discussion.

The September 2012 benchmarks were presented at the September 2012 Forum held at the Wellcome Collection in central London. We took data from the newly released Rota Management Console (RotaMC) and introduced some new statistical measures including the use of P-charts and funnel plots.

The 2012 Forum was held on 13 September 2012 in the main auditorium at the Wellcome Collection in central London. Two external speakers, Dr Will Wight from the RVI in Newcastle and Stewart Nisbet from Lewisham, spoke about different aspects of using CLWRota and how they managed department performance.

At the 2012 March Management & Training Day the CLWRota team presented several graphs showing both individual department and cross- departmental activity. The main focus of analysis data was cross- departmental benchmarks which incorporated data from 26 departments which have used the CLWRota anaesthetics rota management system for at least 12 months.

The March 2012 benchmarks were presented at the 2012 Training & Management day, held at the Wellcome Collection in Central London.

The second presentation of benchmarks was made at the September 2011 Forum, following an initial introductory discussion of some initial benchmarks at the inaugural 2011 Training & Management event. Sixteen departments were included in the analysis.

The 2011 Forum was held in London on the 14th of September at the Wellcome Trust. The focus of this year's event was department productivity and reports.

The 2010 Forum was held at the Wellcome Trust in Central London, with around 55 attendees from 30 departments. The event brought together existing and potential future users of CLWRota to discuss anaesthetics rotas in general and the CLWRota system in particular.

Around 45 attendees attended the 2009 forum on the 17th of September 2009 at the Design Centre in Central London. Speakers at the forum focussed on the effectiveness of the system and gave insights about training aspects of the system. The genesis of the system was also discussed, and we also had a theoretical discussion on how services organisations can improve their operations.