Hospitals and healthcare organisations are struggling with workforce challenges. It’s one of the top concerns for healthcare CEOs. From managing shortages to boosting employee retention and engagement, the pressures on healthcare systems are immense.
A CDC study reported nearly 46% of healthcare workers felt burned out. This widespread burnout has put a strain on the healthcare system, making it increasingly difficult to maintain high-quality care for patients.
Patchwork Health is striving to change this. Using technology, it is helping healthcare providers solve staffing problems, improve care quality and make operations more efficient.
How is Patchwork doing it? Let’s find out!
Patchwork Health’s workforce solutions
Patchwork Health offers a comprehensive suite of software solutions for managing healthcare workforce challenges.
With its smart tools and services, it helps healthcare organizations better manage staff, rely less on temporary workers, and make smarter staffing choices.
Its solutions include:
Digital rostering
Patchwork’s digital rostering solution allows healthcare organisations to create and manage shift schedules in real time. This system enables them to deploy staff more effectively while avoiding overstaffing or understaffing. It also ensures there are no gaps in patient care.
Flexible staff banks
It allows healthcare organisations to build and manage their own staff banks. They can tap into this pool of qualified workers who can fill shifts as needed. It reduces the reliance on expensive agency staff.
Agency management
It helps healthcare organisations better manage and track the use of third-party agency staff. By reducing dependency on external agencies, Patchwork helps to cut staffing costs while maintaining high staffing levels.
Analytics and data
It also offers data and analytics tools that provide insights into workforce trends and staffing patterns. These insights help healthcare organisations make smarter staffing decisions, leading to better patient and staff outcomes.
Patchwork Health’s solutions have already supported over 55,000 healthcare workers, saving the NHS more than £120 million to date.
The company has filled over 12 million shift hours in the last two years alone. In some NHS Trusts, Patchwork’s rostering solutions have achieved an impressive shift fill rate of 97%, significantly reducing the need for third-party agencies.
About Patchwork Health: Founders, ideology, and mission
Patchwork Health was founded in 2016 by NHS doctors—Dr. Anas Nader (CEO) and Dr. Jing Ouyang (COO).
The founders’ firsthand experience in healthcare gave them a unique understanding of the challenges faced by medical staff and healthcare organisations. Their mission is to improve how healthcare systems manage their workforce, ultimately enhancing the quality of care provided to patients.
Patchwork Health is driven by a strong customer-first ethos, which ensures that every solution is designed with the needs of healthcare providers in mind. The company is committed to innovation and works closely with healthcare organisations to create tailored solutions that fit their specific requirements.
Patchwork Health’s acquisition of L2P: A strategic move to strengthen healthcare workforce solutions
In a major move to expand its offerings and strengthen its position in the healthcare market, Patchwork Health recently acquired L2P Enterprise Ltd. L2P is the UK’s leading provider of medical appraisal software and job planning tools for healthcare professionals.
This acquisition makes Patchwork a market-leading healthcare workforce platform. It combines the best of Patchwork’s rostering and staffing solutions with L2P’s appraisal and job planning software.
“This acquisition sets the stage for a new phase of growth, and we are eager to support even more clinicians and healthcare organisations together.”
– Dr. Anas Nader, CEO of Patchwork Health.
“Over the last 8 years, we’ve been relentlessly focused on making healthcare work better. To meet another company who shares this vision and drive is rare. We feel very fortunate to have met the team at L2P and to be welcoming them into Patchwork Health for the phase of our collective journey.”
– Dr. Jing Ouyang, COO of Patchwork Health.
Looking ahead: The future of healthcare workforce
Patchwork Health is committed to driving long-term, sustainable improvements in healthcare workforce management.
With its expanded suite of solutions and the expertise gained through the acquisition of L2P, the company is well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of healthcare providers.
By Rinkle Dudhani and the AHT Team
