On the supply side, a high number of clinical staff needed to shield at home from possible infection, while a smaller, yet still significant, number of staff were reluctant to come to work at all due to their concerns around the virus and potential impact on their families. On the demand side, while agency and previously retired staff were theoretically available, it was nearly impossible to trace the previous whereabouts of agency workers, making the hiring of these people potentially dangerous to the existing workforce. How did the trust respond? 12 months prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, Dr Becky Jupp - Clinical Director for the Stroke and Older Persons’ Medicine (OPM) at The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, had used Allocate’s HealthRoster s

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