Duty Schedule Assistant is a software package designed to ease the administrative burden of organising and running a staff duty

Duty Schedule Assistant is a software package designed to ease the administrative burden of organising and running a staff duty schedule. It is aimed at the situation where there is a pool of staff members who participate in regular duty sessions outside normal office hours and where it is essential that people receive a fair allocation of duty sessions.

Duty Schedule Assistant deals with the complexity of handling the information associated with managing a duty schedule. It gives you a simple and intuitive way of working which is clear and visually appealing. Its comprehensive on-line help system means that you always have authoritative help available instantly

Anyone who has to produce an on-call staff duty schedule will find Duty Schedule Assistant helpful. It has been designed with simplicity and ease-of-use foremost in mind. It has been used in a variety of situations, from demanding medical on-call schedules to call centres and military bases.

Used by UK Transplant

The only Special Health Authority within the UK National Health Service with a UK-wide remit, its role is to ensure that donated organs are matched and allocated in a fair and unbiased way.

Matching, particularly in the case of kidneys, is so important that donation and allocation needs to be organized nationally.

This requires the assistance of a dedicated Computing and Information Technology team who have to run a 24 hour on-call service. The UK Transplant Computing and IT department use Duty Schedule Assistant to organize their on-call duty schedule (rota).

“It is has made a massive impact on my job, and significantly reduced the amount of headache I had to go through every six months creating new rotas. Also has helped considerably when people want to swap. The reports on fairness are invaluable as it stops any squabbles about ‘his doing less than me etc’. Bank Holidays are the main issue there. Overall an excellent tool and greatly appreciated.”

Jon Ward,
Head of Computing & IT, UK Transplant

Used By St Luke's Hospital For The Elderly, Singapore

Efficient rostering for patient care

St Luke's doctors are able to plan and generate their monthly on-call schedules more efficiently now, thanks to Duty Schedule Assistant software donated by a company based in United Kingdom, Calendrica. Gone are the frustrating days when a clipboard and a pencil were passed among doctors to fill in their duty schedule. Tedious manual calculation of doctors' allowances is also no longer a hassle.

"After trying more than 20 softwares, Calendrica's Duty Schedule Assistant software was finally selected," said Medical Officer Dr Kevin Awyong, who was tasked with the search for the software in 2002. "I am impressed by the simple and easy to use interface and its features that matched most of our requirements. We are now able to plan doctors' on-call schedule with minimal fuss and calculate doctors' allowances more accurately."

Excerpt from St Luke's Hospital Newsletter St Luke's Happenings April-June 2004

You can download a fully functional date-limited version of Duty Schedule Assistant (max file size 2.97 MB).

You have access to all its features and can create duty schedules which run up to three calendar months from the date of installation.

New Features

Duty Schedule Assistant has been under development since 1996 and many new features have been added over the years. Click here to see any new features which have been added since this website was created

966 GBP (UK Sterling-approx US$1365.00) for single user license. Site license available on request.

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