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workpal - digital workforce performance empowerment platform

By Andy Farquhar, Thirsty Horses Solutions Ltd Added 3rd Dec, 2020 Updated 27th Aug, 2022

workpal is our flagship digital workforce performance empowerment platform. We use cloud technology to provide modern and secure tools for HR and OD professionals, NHS managers and executives to provide real-time data and reporting on workforce performance and productivity. We provide timely, consistent data and a robust audit trail about how staff are working to achieve organisational objectives, and who is working within the leadership narrative of values, behaviours, goals.

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workpal provides a scalable, system-level, digital solution for the NHS to solve issues around workforce monitoring and organisational performance. We're leading the shift from paper-based systems to mobile, 24/7, easy-access technology.

More than just automation of tasks and streamlining of process, we're helping NHS organisations move beyond a focus on compliance to using real-time qualitative data and analytics to inform workforce and investment decisions. 

Our technology was developed and tested in the NHS. As technology partner on a North West NHS pilot in 2014, the suitability of our system was evaluated by Manchester Metropolitan University , and is currently part of a real-world validation project led by Liverpool John Moores University.  The principal economic benefit is removing pressure on already straining capital budgets, and making efficiency savings on consumables and overheads as clients move from analogue approaches, that are resource and equipment heavy, to an agile, fully digitalised system. Subscription-based SaaS models like ours, incurring revenue only charges are recognised as far more practical. The main benefit to patients and patient care stems from time efficiencies, e.g. releasing staff from burdensome tasks reduces stress and allows more time for patient care.

When clients adopt our technology, they get a product and a service. Costs include hosting, maintenance, technical support, a detailed implementation plan, training, and a communication plan. Typical roll-out time is several weeks.

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