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Patchwork Health

Patchwork Health

Hospitals and Health Care

London, England 13,783 followers

On a mission to unleash the power of flexible working to solve the global healthcare workforce crisis.

About us

We’re a team made up of healthcare workers who’ve lived the struggles of temporary staffing. So we’re here to transform the way it’s managed once and for all, by unleashing the power of flexible working to solve the global healthcare workforce crisis. How do we do it? We combine our industry-leading technology with our extensive specialist expertise - to bring an entirely tailored service to each healthcare organisation and solve their unique challenges for good. With Patchwork, we go beyond simply achieving the obvious requirements of surging staff bank growth and fill rates, slashing agency spend, increasing patient safety and saving time. But what truly transforms our partner organisations is our first-hand healthcare experience and expertise, our genuine passion and tireless effort to create real change for the future. Let’s together unleash the power of flexible working.

Website
https://patchwork.health
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
London, England
Type
Partnership
Founded
2016

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  • 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬! If you're on a break, tea brewing, and there's a rare moment of silence... go and read the first edition of our clinician newsletter. A small antidote to the doom scroll. Real stories from clinicians, about clinical life - the bits that don’t make it into handover. Free, monthly, and thoughtfully put together 🏥 Take a look here: https://lnkd.in/ePFV-he2

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    🎉 We’re over the moon to announce that Patchwork Health is now officially Flexa-verified! 🎉 Patchwork Health is a UK-based, doctor-founded technology company that provides workforce management solutions, designed to solve staffing shortages and burnout in healthcare organisations, particularly the NHS. They offer digital tools for e-rostering, managing temporary staff banks, collaborative regional staffing, and agency management to help hospitals ensure safe staffing, reduce costs, and improve staff wellbeing. Patchwork has received some outstanding feedback from their employees! Check out their top scores: ✅ 94% for their flexibility ✅ 91% for their autonomous and trust-based culture ✅ 91% for their collaborative and team-focused culture We love to see it! ”By far the best company I have ever worked at. An incredible group of people with exceptional talent but who are all so nice!” Patchwork employee Here are just a few examples of what makes Patchwork a fantastic company to work for: 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Enhanced parental leave 🚺 Women’s health support ✈️ Work from abroad 🩺 Health cash plan 👧 Nursery scheme 📌 Follow their profile on Flexa to discover life at Patchwork and be the first to hear about new opportunities: https://lnkd.in/eiHjVTiN

  • “What we want to achieve with rostering…” 💭 We asked Jennie Dwerryhouse, Deputy Chief People Officer at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, what she’s most looking forward to as they roll out Patchwork Rota. Her answer? A move towards smarter, more flexible rostering - including AI-powered, preference-based rotas that better reflect how people actually want to work and all the data that comes with it 📈 Watch below... 🎥

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    Stop chasing. Start filling. Patchwork uses AI to bring the right shifts to the right bank workers. Now, shifts are matched automatically based on grade, location, and booking patterns. Less scrolling for clinicians. Better fill rates for you and no changes to your existing approval process. Want to find out more - drop us a message!

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    Doctors’ livelihoods can be determined by their rotas. We all knew the hours would be long, but what we didn’t expect was the constant battling over when those hours would be, forcing us into a continuously bad routine. This lack of day-to-day stability is further compounded by the fact that it is very typical for resident doctors to move up and down the country as part of their training, yet another step in removing predictability entirely. So-called ‘rota patterns’ invariably result in disparity in hours worked between colleagues doing the exact same job, for the exact same pay. These concepts can be difficult to explain to our colleagues outside of healthcare, who rely on software such as MS Excel for its true purpose (anything but making rotas for doctors). Preference based rostering is a concept that I came across recently. It stipulates that instead of forcing staff into a rigid, rolling template, doctors can input their requirements and shift preferences before the schedule is generated. 

Why shouldn't Dr. Clarke be able to reliably play his Wednesday evening football match, and why shouldn't Dr. Evans get to make it to her child's school play? Both are just normal life events, and with a flexible system, both can be accommodated. Obviously, there are caveats. The wards still need safe staffing at all times. The nights, the bank holidays, and the heavy on-calls aren't going anywhere, and we all still have to do our fair share of them. But preference-based rostering recognises that the total hours don't need to change for our quality of life to improve. It simply replaces blind allocation with mutual flexibility, allowing a team to shuffle the exact same hours into a schedule that actually works better for everyone. If this initiative can move us inches closer to the respect that resident doctors deserve, I see that as a big win. What are your thoughts? Do you have any examples of how preference-based rostering could be used? Have you seen it in action?
 #PreferenceBasedRostering #NHSEngland #ResidentDoctors #MedicalRostering #Healthcare

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    Introducing Shift Happens - a newsletter for clinicians, by clinicians, navigating the career chaos, the clinical wins, and the stuff nobody puts in a guideline. It’s a space for honest takes, shared experiences, and genuinely useful insight. Just good content, free, once a month. Expect: ➡️ News that matters to medics (plus the occasional useful nugget) ➡️ Candid perspectives from clinicians on the front line - what happened, what it taught them, and what others can take from it ➡️ Resources for navigating the good, the bad, and the ugly 📩 The first edition lands next week. Click here to subscribe and find out how you can contribute to future editions https://lnkd.in/ek5FVzxE

  • Job planning is often treated as a compliance hurdle. By connecting L2P job planning data with Patchwork Insights, we’re helping organisations move beyond the tick-box. It bridges the gap between 'planned' and 'actual' activity, providing a credible evidence base for operational decisions. The goal is a single source of truth that both clinicians and managers can trust to identify capacity and automate reporting. In the video below, Richard Lucas walks through just a couple of our dashboards and how they translate complex activity into clear, actionable intelligence. You can find out more about this important piece of work, on our website here: https://lnkd.in/ey55cVj6

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Funding

Patchwork Health 5 total rounds

Last Round

Series B

US$ 24.4M

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