In short: Introducing self-rostering takes about four months of preparation: clean up the accreditation list, agree exemptions, decide the activity measure behind quotas, set the rules, then open the window. This post lays out that timeline month by month. It was written in 2017 for private-hospital on-call rosters and the sequence has held up for […]
The team at HosPortal often reflects on good design. Recent discussion includes why, after about 5,000 years of design refinement across the globe, you can still buy teapots that drip when you pour them.But of all topics, nothing gets us more passionate than seeing both good and bad software design. We do not always get […]
In short: For most hospitals a twelve-month roster period starting in February or March works best, because it gives everyone notice of the Christmas season. Departments with high turnover or changing quotas do better with rolling three- or six-month periods finalised three months ahead. This post explains the trade-offs. If you are a private hospital […]
In short: Hospitals roster in three broad ways, manual allocation, self-rostering and preference-based rostering, and which one works depends on tradition, how doctors are paid, the resources behind the roster, and who runs it. This post sets out those influences so a department can choose deliberately rather than by habit. HosPortal supports all three and […]