Princess Alexandra Hospital develop a workload measurement tool to alleviate staff shortages

With 9 work-groups to manage over 4 geographical locations, the physiotherapy department at Princess Alexandra needed to come up with a smart way to manage staff leave and rostering. They developed an algorithm, based on weighted workload factors, to produce a numerical (and colour coded) value to describe status of each work area on a given day, resulting in better coordination of resource allocation targeting the expected busy departments with more staff . Early results have indicated an improvement in teamwork and resource allocations.

Princess Alexandra Hospital's innovation presentation is available to HRT members by clicking here.

Other hospital’s innovations from the 2015 Allied Health Improvement Group Meeting are available by clicking here.