Rota Design for 2009 - North Western Deanery

4. Design“There cannot be a ‘one size fits all’ solution, asindividual situations will differ in many ways” (RotaDesign Made Easy, BMA) 9 .When all the strands of the previous stages have beenpulled together you should have a clear rotaspecification upon which to base your design.Depending on the expertise available you can approachrota design in three ways:1. Start from scratch to give a bespoke, best-fit solution2. Modify existing local templates3. Utilise example templates from the NWPdatabase/other external sources.There is extensive material available to provide furthersupport for this stage 9.The worked example used earlier for the F1 rota inGeneral Medicine at Trust X could produce thefollowing example rota template, based on the datagathered during the analysis stage.12345678910Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri Sat SunC: Long day09:00 – 21:30Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00E18:00 – 21:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day08:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00C: Long day09:00 – 21:30Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day08:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00C: Long day09:00 – 21:30Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day08:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00C: Long day09:00 – 21:30Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day08:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00C: Long day09:00 – 21:30Stnd day09:00 – 17:00B09:00 – 21:30Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00C: Long day09:00 – 21:30Stnd day08:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00Stnd day09:00 – 17:00B16:00 – 00:00A09:00 – 17:00B13:00 – 21:00A00:00 – 17:00TestingWith each rota design, software tools can supportvalidity testing however the following areas should beconsidered and some require human judgement.Process Box●●●●●Is it legal (WTD compliant)?Is it affordable (New Deal compliant and withinexpected pay band)?Is it realistic?Is it socially acceptable (start and end times,weekend frequency, ‘Improving Working Lives’)?Is it educationally acceptable?Complete stage 1a, 1b, 1c ofre banding proforma14