MaRS Management Reporting Suite
It's Out of this World
Bank and Agency nursing can be a major financial drain on hospital resources. No-one can hope to eliminate it altogether. There will always be moments when hospitals need to draw on the reserve that bank and agency nurses represent. Vacancies, sickness, unforeseen external commitments, sudden peaks in patient demand will need to be met in this way. But you need to minimise dependence on this expensive resource and to do that, an appropriate information tool is essential.
You need a tool that allows you to see quickly and reliably how your actual use of nursing resource is shaping up against your plan. It has to show you the specialties and wards where demand is most outstripping provision, so that you can take corrective action with the relevant managers to improve control. It must show you the reasons why you're having to top up your nursing provision. And it must show you not just how much bank and agency nursing you're using but the financial implications of using it, in a way that is immediately clear to both financial and clinical managers. That's precisely what the Bank and Agency Reports of the ParkHill/Ardentia Management Reporting Suite (MaRS) provides.
MaRS:
- is an easy to use, Web-based set of reports which require no specialist training and are available to any authorised user with access to a Web browser.
- gives you near real-time monitoring since it can take data as often as you wish, e.g. daily.
- brings together resource and financial management by enhancing data about bank and agency usage together with the relevant financial information from accounting systems.
- handles every level of reporting, from individual wards up to the whole trust or even several hospitals; working at all these levels allows collaborative management between ward managers working at day to day operational levels to managers at corporate level.
- allows comparison between wards, specialties, directorates or even hospitals in a spirit of benchmarking.
- analyses the reasons for bank and agency nurse usage.
ParkHill and Ardentia drew on many years experience of providing strategic information services to healthcare managers when they jointly developed MaRS. MaRS therefore meets your real needs, today, in the most effective way possible.
For further information, please contact:
ARDENTIA
Tel: 0870 267 0008
Email: sales@ardentia.co.uk