Innovation in development
Elective Care Recovery
Many NHS Trusts have Rostering solutions in place for their staff, however they still struggle to ensure they optimise the use of staff and physical locations available to them. Maximising the use of location and resources will not only make the treatment of patients more efficient but will optimise the use of expensive resources. Trusts would ideally like to have a solution that is responsive to patient demand. The system would show staff/room/equipment availability and then automatically plan the use of staff and resources based on the actual demand.
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CACI provides a modern workforce management product called Cygnum that can deliver this solution for the NHS. Benefitting from continuous development the software is reliable, scalable and deeply flexible. Cygnum is a multi-service workforce/resource management system, underpinned by a single, extremely performant database. CACI understands that all trusts have their own unique way of working so Cygnum can be configured to meet those needs.
Cygnum allows user-defined business rules and process to be coupled with sophisticated scheduling functionality. Based on patient demand, rules can be used to schedule staff to a treatment pathway based on their competencies and availability. This will allow the Trust to manage staff and resources based on the patient demand. Trusts will be able to improve the patient throughput by optimising the use of both staff and physical resources available to them. In addition, Cygnum’s case management functionality drives process, allowing treatment pathways to trigger or notify the right person or system at the right time to act. Input forms provide the ability to capture information about a patient or task that has been completed. Workflows can then trigger the next action and notify staff of a required task ensuring treatment schedules are completed efficiently and on time.
