Allocate Software


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Summary

About Us

Allocate Software has been designing innovative products to optimise complex organisations since 1991. We have taken expertise from a number of industries and applied this to the specific issues and complexity of healthcare. Today we focus on delivering software tools to help healthcare institutions manage their staff safely and efficiently so that they can deliver exceptional care to all their patients. We have customers in 11 countries, with 800,000 people deployed using our software in over 800 organisations. Our headquarters are near London, and regional offices in the UK, Spain, Australia, and the Nordics. At Allocate, we believe in building a better future. We are passionate about helping our customers deliver the best care they can and strive to constantly innovate to support them. We are dedicated to continually evolving our solutions and services, so that customers know they can rely on us to deliver the best solutions today and in the future.

Our workforce solutions

Optima is our core workforce technology platform delivering proven and innovative workforce optimisation software solutions-as-service.

Optima and our complete family of software applications is built around the specific needs of health and care organisations. This means our solutions uniquely bring together eRostering, time and attendance and rota management with patient demand and activity. We are helping health and care organisations safeguard savings and safety by deploying their workforce effectively based on service and patient need. Our solutions are used across all staff groups whether permanent

Workforce planning

Our workforce software provides a proven, intuitive and highly mobile end-to-end solution for every stage of the workforce lifecycle; from service planning and rota design to rostering deployment. Linked with payroll, it provides the backbone that allows health and care providers to manage substantive and temporary staff across all staff groups including clinicians, nurses, care, science and non-clinical staff.

Our solutions include:

  • Optima for nursing
  • Optima for medics

Operational management

Allocate Software’s solutions extends to help customers to respond to their day-to-day operational needs. Uniquely enabling real-time management of staffing to meet specific patient needs, we help improve patient safety and productivity by dynamically matching staffing based on patient numbers and acuity. Our Patient Flow system further extends our operational management suite to enable complex and business-critical clinical operations including bed management, patient transfers and discharge planning processes.

Our solutions include:

  • SafeCare our acuity based staffing tool that enables dynamic daily staffing
  • RealTime PatientFlow which manage smart discharge and optimal flow

Assurance and managed reporting

Our solutions provide assurance and reporting from point of care to board. Empowering decision makers, operational managers and those overseeing care and finances with intelligent information.

Our solutions include:

  • Allocate-Insight service which provides deep data analytics, benchmarks and independent expert analysis of workforce data
  • HealthAssure is our governance, risk and compliance platform that provides visibility of quality and safety across risk, measures and plans
  • StaffEngage which enables organisations to intelligently engage their workforce using roster activity as triggers for key messages and feedback.
  • MedicsAppraisal which provides 360 degree feedback and appraisal for clinicians