New platform that should improve patient care in South-east London

Health care providers in South-east London have signed up to a new online platform for workforce scheduling and payments. 

Lantum, which claims to be the UK’s leading healthcare workforce management platform, has secured a two-year contract with Our Healthier South East London – an integrated care system for the area – to deliver its workforce technology for a region which covers 1.9 million patients.  

Its technology will stretch across 200 practices, including 58 extended access ‘hub’ sites, allowing for workforce planning and payments for 1,600 clinicians in the area. 

The NHS remains heavily reliant on exorbitant recruitment agencies and fragmented staff-led initiatives, like WhatsApp, spreadsheets and messaging groups to resolve staff shortages and schedules. 

This deal consolidates a large number of clients that were already using Lantum in the region – more than half of South East London’s GP practices are already regular users.  

Lantum’s software that can rapidly locate clinicians at short notice, fill shift gaps with fully vetted clinicians in the South East London area, and ensure clinicians get paid the next day.  

Melissa Morris, chief executive and founder of Lantum, said: “NHS staffing is in crisis and it is a privilege to be able to support organisations to connect better to their workforce, staff more safely and ultimately improve patient care. 

“Staff shortages are high, backlogs of patients, built up over the pandemic, are at dangerous levels, and front-line staff are experiencing extreme burnout like never before.  

“Healthcare organisations need transformative technology, not just small incremental improvements around the edges.”