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With demand on general practice already at an all-time high, many practices and networks require a smarter solution to manage staffing and rotas, to ensure the pressure of core primary care work, alongside the mass vaccination drive, can be effectively delivered. Dr Ishani Patel, GP and co-founder of the digital staff bank solution Lantum is back on the podcast and joined by colleague, Lantum account manager, Tom Herbert-Maynard, to update us on the progress that Lantum has made, how their solution is supporting ICSs up and down the country to create a fully flexible workforce across the NHS eco-system, their influence on staffing the vaccination sites and most importantly, to provide information on the NHSEI funding available now for ICSs to enable procurement of and access to a digital staff bank.

Introductions (0:38)

Who are Lantum and what role are they playing in supporting the vaccination rollout? (0:51)

How does a digital staff bank work where the vaccination programme is concerned? (1:39)

Lessons learned from the programme so far (3:28)

What advantages does a digital system offer versus traditional methods of rota management? (5:38)

How would a rota manager organise staffing using an online portal, in practice? (6:08)

Governance considerations (8:14)

Maintaining a good rate of vaccinations and how the system could support this (8:26)

The key differences between smaller vaccination hubs and larger scale vaccination sites (9:28)

NHSEI funding availability (11:05)

Putting a flexible staffing pool in place across an ICS (12:46)

Which roles can be managed within a digital staff bank? (14:34)

Enabling delivery of truly integrated care (15:22)

Breaking down organisational boundaries (16:29)

How do I access the NHSEI funding offer? (17:29)

I am a Clinical Director, and I would like to find out more (18:29)

Getting in touch (19:20)

The Lantum website is here

Ishani is contactable here

This page explains a little more about how Lantum can provide ‘connected scheduling’ between staff banks.

What should be the key considerations when sourcing a digital staff bank provider? Lantum’s blog post is here