Advanced Health & Care Unveils Latest Release of its Homecare Rostering Solution

Used already by more than 1,000 care organisations, Staffplan Roster enables service users, care workers and suppliers to store comprehensive records within a single, unified system. The solution allows scheduling, training, timesheets and related financial information to be easily shared and reported on to aid management decision making. Interactive wall charts highlight visit schedules for single or multiple bookings and integrated map functionality calculates mileage expenses automatically to reduce inefficient administration.

Staffplan Roster Version 5 offers care providers greater invoicing flexibility to charge funders and pay staff depending on the contract they have with the commissioner or service user. Funders can now be invoiced based on planned visit times or actual visit durations, or a combination of both, with capping and rounding options to match individual contracts. New automated features track staff hours already worked and forecast future scheduling patterns to reduce time and errors when calculating holiday entitlements.

The solution will also enable organisations to streamline the laborious process of submitting operating data for National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Improved functionality allows a simple export to be done, saving significant amounts of time and increasing productivity. In addition, Staffplan Roster now enhances communication by recording service users’ and care workers’ preferred method of contact (post, email, SMS etc).

Jim Chase, Managing Director of Advanced Health & Care, comments, "Developments to Staffplan Roster have been made as a direct result of customer feedback and are designed to meet the evolving needs of the care industry. The improved functionality allows care providers to operate with greater financial transparency by assisting them to ensure they are charging funders and paying their staff accurately at all times."

To celebrate the launch of the product’s latest version Advanced has partnered with Trees for Cities, an independent charity working with local communities on tree planting projects in urban areas. In support of the environment, the company will plant a tree for the charity on behalf of its existing and new customers who purchase Staffplan Roster version 5.

Chase adds, "Our latest version enables organisations to further eliminate administrative and paper-based processes to improve efficiency. Through our partnership with Trees for Cities we have committed to plant at least 100 trees and are proud to be involved in this initiative to improve the environmental sustainability in the industries we operate in."

About Advanced Health & Care
Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) is a leading provider of IT management systems for adult and children’s community, mental health, hospice, home and residential care services, as well as urgent and unscheduled care and clinical call centres.

Advanced focuses on providing innovative mobile IT applications for community based care, supporting tens of thousands of care workers and clinicians with integrated phone, software and airtime solutions.

Working with partners in the NHS, local government and the private sector, Advanced offers IT solutions in support of safe, efficient care delivery with integrated management information. Advanced's unique proposition is its range of integrated care solutions offering visibility of information for both the commissioner and care provider.

Advanced Health & Care is a division of Advanced Computer Software Group Limited, a leading supplier of software and IT services to the health, care and business services sectors. In 2014, the Group won Tech Company of the Year in PwC’s UK Tech Awards. Advanced was also ranked in the Deloitte UK Fast 50, which recognises the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK and ranked in the top 300 technology companies in Deloitte’s EMEA rankings.