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[sven2006] 25/4/2007 14:02

sja123 - that was part of the five new ones from this morning.

[sven2006] 25/4/2007 13:42

where you find that sja123?

[sja123] 25/4/2007 13:16

"Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust will be delivering an integrated Rostering and Bank solution interfaced to the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). "

Another one going with the ESR interface too :-)

[sven2006] 25/4/2007 10:15

excellent - thanks very much !

[robward] 25/4/2007 10:13

Hows That !!!

[sven2006] 25/4/2007 10:04

robward - could we update the header with Directors sahre purchases and news please?

[sven2006] 25/4/2007 09:07

Had to buy some more, just had to.

[sven2006] 25/4/2007 09:00

Found on or about 20th April, note the word wonderful !!

Ashford and St Peter's NHS Trust have successfully integrated their Electronic Staff Records system with their MAPS Healthroster staff rostering system, provided by Manpower Software.

The trust have introduced the system, which provides an integrated up-to-date view on staff working times, attendance and absence, to reduce the administrative workload for ward managers to electronically monitor staff's shift patterns and attendance.

The trust's resource manager, Cathy Dennis, told E-Health Insider: "We wanted to develop an interface between out rostering system and our payroll system that would eliminate the need for staff to fill in paper time sheets and ward managers having to verify their paperwork and re-key it onto the system."

Once Manpower had come up with the idea of a new interface, the trust had to get board approval for the work involved.

Ashford and St Peter's finance director, Keith Mansfield said: "We identified significant areas of benefit that included reducing the effort associated with producing the pay source data for NHS staff, as generating this data manually is time consuming and error prone. A new system would also provide an electronic audit-trial of the source of pay data for NHS employees enabling a better and quicker analysis and importantly would reduce duplication of entry of HR information between the two systems".

Manpower Software spent months working on the new interface and following a detailed period of testing involving the trust, the interface team and the development team, the integrated system went live last week.

Dennis told EHI: "The system is wonderful. It frees up the ward sisters clinical time and reduces the burden of paperwork. The ward sister can comfortably focus on clinical matters whilst a secretarial assistant inputs staff attendance information directly into the system. It has been a significant improvement for us, particularly with the amount of time human resources data used to take to enter and verify."

Using the system, staff tell assistants when they are starting and ending work and the details are entered electronically immediately. Ward sisters have full access to the password-protected system and must then verify the information stored in the database before sending it to payroll.

Dennis added: "It means that nurses can observe staff working patterns and not have to check through tedious amounts of paper timesheets. The pay source data can then be sent to payroll and it will help to reduce salary errors and keep staff happy too. We have already successfully paid 683 staff using the system and will add more wards onto the interface every month."

The system is security-protected to avoid any unauthorised manipulation of data and any unusual shift patterns are checked before being sent to payroll.

Dennis said: "We worked on this project to ensure that it met the clinical governance rules and did not compromise patient safety. It is updated daily and we thoroughly check each and every piece of data entered into the system. It is password protected so once entered, only authorised users can send data to payroll. For our staff, the ward managers and sisters find it is the biggest boost of all, reducing their previous administrative burdens."

Manpower Software hope that more of its NHS customers will choose to deploy this interface. The company's healthcare director, Paul Scandrett, said: "I am delighted with the result for the trust after a lot of hard work from all participants. We are proud to have a MAPS Healthroster working interface to ESR in a 'live' environment on 'live' staff records."

[sven2006] 25/4/2007 08:15

why no RNS

[cockneyrebel] 25/4/2007 08:08

They are adding one per month at the current rate - amazed there's no RNS

CR

[bigbigdave] 25/4/2007 06:47

Nice find Rob. Too busy watching a certain footie match last night.

[cockneyrebel] 24/4/2007 21:44

Still two months to go from the date that statement is up to until the end of the financial year too.

That's nearly a doubling in the number in the first three months - blistering pace and should mean with their high operational gearing it adds a lot more in profits.

Shore reckoned they might be upgrading MNS 'in a couple of months' when I called them 2 weeks ago. Looks a certainty now :-)

CR

[cockneyrebel] 24/4/2007 21:34

glad I added today :-)

Nice find Rob.

CR

[sja123] 24/4/2007 21:29

Great find Rob:-)

Should get an RNS in the morning then?!

[robward] 24/4/2007 20:56

Hi Guys
Just found this.....

News Release
Tuesday 24 April 2007, 18:08 GMT Tuesday 24 April 2007
HEALTH
Manpower Software PLC


Five More NHS Trusts Join the MAPS Healthroster Community


LONDON, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- An additional 5 NHS Trusts have purchased MAPS Healthroster in the first three months of 2007. This means Manpower Software's Healthcare community has grown by 11 NHS customers, and 1 private organisation, in a 9 month period. All Trusts have contracted for MAPS Healthroster to provide a Trust wide solution across all sites. The new customers are:

- Isle of Wight PCT the first Primary Care Trust (PCT) to select MAPS Healthroster.

- Ridgeway Partnership (Oxford Learning Disability NHS Trust) the first Learning Disability Trust to select MAPS Healthroster.

- Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust will be delivering an integrated Rostering and Bank solution interfaced to the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

- South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust is the third in the North East of England to select MAPS Healthroster, joining their neighbouring Trusts: North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust and County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

- East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust selected MAPS Healthroster following a detailed competitive evaluation at the Trust.

These 5 new Trusts are in addition to the existing MAPS Healthroster user community shown below:

NHS Foundation Trusts

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Acute Trusts

Ashford and St Peter's NHS Trust

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

Ealing Hospital NHS Trust

The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

NHS Mental Health & Learning Disability Trusts

Sandwell Mental Health NHS Trust

Independent Healthcare Sector

HCA International

About Manpower Software

Manpower Software develops workforce planning solutions based on MAPS, its Manpower Analysis and Planning System. Initially developed for defence users including NATO and the British Ministry of Defence, MAPS now also has a strong user base among private and government organisations which need to manage their workforce effectively - such as the top cruise companies and the UK National Health Service. MAPS helps organisations view the demands on their workforces and effectively deploy their staff to meet these goals - ensuring the right person, with the right skills, is in the right place at the right time. Manpower Software is headquartered in London, with its US head office in Miami. www.manpowersoftware.com


I wonder if this explains why the Market Makers were trying to get some stock today..or am i just a cynic !!!
Perhaps it explains the director buys .

Regards

Rob

[n1blet] 24/4/2007 16:27

Stock availability lasted all of two minutes.

Short of stock again

[bigbigdave] 24/4/2007 15:59

Also got me some more today............. at 8am 8-(
No worries, must be some cracking announcements to come with the Directors buying so heavily.

[cockneyrebel] 24/4/2007 15:43

If The co's senior advisor was buying @ 73p he ain't looking to sell @ 76p imo - but you wait fo r75p if you like, I think there's a lot that won't wait.

CR

[cockneyrebel] 24/4/2007 15:38

Just got myself some more TwelveFinches - no good sat there watching mate - there are doers and talkers! :-)

CR

[cockneyrebel] 24/4/2007 10:15

Yep, hardly a deluge of sells.

CR

[sja123] 24/4/2007 08:53

Just a shake by the looks of it.......one or two picking up a bargain!

[jakleeds] 24/4/2007 08:39

Looks like further to fall yet though

[cockneyrebel] 24/4/2007 08:37

those waiting for a dip have got one at last.

Bid not far off where Swann last bought.

CR