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IT Software Development: Analysing Bank and Agency Staffing with MaRS It’s inevitable that there are moments when hospitals depend on the reserve that bank and agency nurses represent. But if utilised unwisely, bank and agency staff can be a significant drain on finances. To help minimise the cost of this expensive resource, an effective management information tool is essential. You need a management tool to see how your actual use of staffing is shaping up against your plan. It must identify the specialties and wards where demand is most outstripping provision, allowing you to take corrective action. It must also highlight the reasons why you’re having to top up your nursing provision, and crucially, the financial implications of doing so. Developed in collaboration with the NHS, ParkHill and Ardentia have created “MaRS” - a user-friendly reporting module for bank and agency staff usage. By bringing together data from your finance and bank and agency systems, MaRS takes the hard work out of producing management information – so you can focus your attention on making the right decisions at the right time.
Benefits of MaRS MaRS is: ▪ Money saving - allows you to monitor and adjust your bank and agency spend, and improves productivity by economising on staff time required to produce reports ▪ Accessible – presents data in a user-friendly format suitable for non-financial as well as financial managers, and is web-based so that it can be viewed across your organisation ▪ Responsive – improves budgetary control through real-time reports ▪ Seamless – provides standardised reporting and comparisons at every level of the organisation, from individual wards up to the whole trust or even several hospitals
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MaRS is simple and cost-effective to implement, needing access only to a web browser. No IT hardware expenditure is required, as the system is hosted. Web pages make it easy to navigate from report to report, while each page combines tables with graphs to put the management information you need at your fingertips:
Next Steps To find out how MaRS can help you take control of your bank and agency staffing, please contact: Geoff Anderson - Director of Computer Services on 020 8869 7433. or alternatively email us
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