A supportive improvement tool to promote safe and healthy working patterns
The Scottish Government has also developed a supportive improvement tool to promote safe and healthy working patterns. This initiative, the Professional Compliance Analysis Tool (PCAT), creates an analysis and structured improvement process to address working patterns in terms of three domains:
It has a clear focus on requiring collaborative working between trainees, training and service leads as a core principle to improve working patterns and achieve intelligent rota design. The PCAT is being applied across all Health Boards in NHS Scotland.