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Somebody in every department still builds the call schedule by hand.

Rota builds the whole year, and any day of it will tell you why.

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Why it is worth replacing

Four questions a call schedule should answer.

  1. Why have I got Christmas again?

    Counted per person against their share.

  2. Am I carrying more weekends than everyone else?

    Counted, next to what they should have had.

  3. Can somebody take the fourteenth off me?

    Re-checked against every rule before it saves.

  4. Why them and not me?

    Who is on, and why everyone else is not.

How it works

Three things, and the year is somebody else's problem.

  1. How each person works

    Weekdays, run length, share, carry-over.

    The People tab: a card per surgeon with their rules on it

  2. Build the whole year at once

    Every day at once, then it trades days to even the year up.

    The schedule: twelve months of call, colour-coded by surgeon, with one day open
    A year of call, colour-coded by person.

  3. Everyone gets their own page

    Their days, time off, swaps. No password.

    A surgeon's own page: their call days, a time-off form and their swaps

OR, NICU, 911, anaesthesia. Same engine, separate years.

Each has its own people, rules and twelve months.

The board: one card per call list, each showing whether it is built, published, and how many requests are waiting

The part people argue about

Fair stops being a feeling.

Days, weekends and holidays, next to what each person should have had.

The who-works-what table: days, weekends and big holidays against each person's fair share

Any day tells you why

Tap a date. It says why everyone else is not on it.

  • approved time off
  • requested this day off
  • only takes Thu, Fri, Sat
  • at their holiday cap
  • 7 days in a row already
  • above their share
The why panel: who is on call, and the reason each other surgeon is not

Some rules are never broken. The rest are weighed.

Never broken

  • Approved time off
  • The weekdays they take
  • Most consecutive days
  • Who may hold which duty
  • A cap on big holidays
  • Nobody in two places at once

Weighed, and these are the defaults

  • Two people kept apart250
  • A day somebody asked off150
  • Share of the big holidays60
  • Share of all holidays30
  • Their own weekdays30
  • Share of weekends25
  • Run length people want25

Each is a slider.

Worth being clear about

It never sees a patient.

Names and dates. No patients, no cases.

Also true

What it costs

Quoted per department.

A call list for nine surgeons and a hospital running six of them are not the same product, and a table of tiers pretends they are. Say what you need covering and you get a written quote your finance office can pay from, billed once a year.

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The demo is a worked call list with nine people in it.

Build a year, break a rule, ask a day why.

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