About RotaHive
Built from inside the NHS.
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RotaHive was created from first-hand experience of the challenges behind healthcare rostering: as a doctor working the rota, managing rotas, and dealing with wider workforce and governance issues.
We’re building workforce technology that works better for the people managing the rota and the people working it.
Request a demoWhy RotaHive exists
The problem that started RotaHive.
The rota sits at the centre of working life for healthcare teams, but too many of the processes around it remain fragmented.
Doctors may use one system to see their rota, messages or emails for swaps, separate tools for exception reporting and expenses, and yet another source to find out where they are allocated.
Managers face the other side of the same problem: keeping staffing safe while coordinating changes, answering queries and maintaining oversight across disconnected workflows.
RotaHive started with a simple question:
What would workforce management look like if the rota and the processes around it actually worked together?
Founder story
From doctor to founder.
I currently work as a doctor in the NHS, so the frustrations RotaHive is trying to solve are problems I continue to see in everyday clinical work.
I have also been responsible for managing rotas myself. That gave me a different view of the problem: the constant changes, leave requests, swaps, staffing gaps and the responsibility of trying to keep the service running safely.
Through my work as a Chief Registrar, I have also been involved in wider workforce, safety and governance issues. That reinforced something important: a good workforce system cannot simply make things easier for doctors. It also has to give managers and organisations the oversight, rules and controls they need.
The problems are connected.
Connected workflows
Leave
A leave request changes staffing.
Swap
A swap can affect compliance.
Allocations
The rota tells you when someone is working, but not necessarily where.
Exceptions
An exception report relates to work that actually happened.
Expenses
Study expenses may follow approved study leave.
I wanted a system that connected those pieces rather than treating them as separate problems.
That became RotaHive.
Connected workflows
Leave
A leave request changes staffing.
Swap
A swap can affect compliance.
Allocations
The rota tells you when someone is working, but not necessarily where.
Exceptions
An exception report relates to work that actually happened.
Expenses
Study expenses may follow approved study leave.
The name and the mark
Why “RotaHive”?
A hive works because many individuals are coordinated around a shared purpose. Each person has a role, but the strength comes from how the whole system works together.
That idea sits at the heart of RotaHive.
Doctors, managers, rotas, workforce information and organisational processes should not operate in isolation. They should work from one connected picture.
The RotaHive logo reflects the same idea: individuals arranged around a shared centre, people retaining their own roles and needs while working within a coordinated system.
Individuals
distinct roles and needs
Shared centre
coordination and structure
Individual flexibility.Shared visibility.Better coordination.
Principles
What we believe.
Built around real work
Healthcare teams are different. Workforce technology should adapt to how services actually operate rather than forcing every department into the same way of working.
Better for both sides
A workforce system should make life easier for the people managing the rota and the people working it. Improving one should not come at the expense of the other.
Intelligence should support people
Technology can identify problems, explain what is happening and suggest possible solutions. Important workforce decisions should remain with the people responsible for the service.
One connected picture
The rota, workforce information and the processes around them are naturally linked. The technology supporting them should be too.
Our focus
Starting with healthcare.
RotaHive is starting in the environment we understand best: the NHS.
Healthcare rostering combines complex staffing requirements, contractual rules, individual preferences, clinical service needs and organisational governance.
Solving those problems well requires more than putting a rota on a screen.
We are building RotaHive around real healthcare workforce workflows, with the aim of reducing unnecessary administration, improving visibility and giving doctors greater flexibility while maintaining the oversight organisations need.
And we will keep developing it alongside the people who use it.
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