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NHS At Work Release 7.6

  • Updated

We are pleased to share the release of NHS at Work 7.6. This release focuses on improved leave management usability, personalised filter preferences, enhanced Non-Resident On-Call (NROC) working time calculations, and support for the July 2026 Resident Doctor pay structure updates.

This release includes:

 

Responsive Leave Tables

This release delivers significant usability improvements to the My Leave, Manage Leave and All Leave tables, ensuring a consistent experience across common laptop screen sizes. 

 

 

Key functionality

1. Improved responsiveness on laptop screens

  • Leave tables now adapt more effectively to smaller screen resolutions.

2. Enhanced scrolling experience

  • Horizontal scrolling remains available when tables contain more columns than can fit on screen.
  • Users can scroll horizontally without needing to navigate to the bottom of the table first.

3. Improved table usability

  • Table headers remain clearly associated with visible data when scrolling.
  • Existing sorting, filtering and record management functionality continues to operate as expected.

4. Accessible Add Unavailability action

  • Users can now access the Add Unavailability button without requiring horizontal or vertical scrolling on supported laptop screen sizes.

 

Benefits

  • Improved usability on smaller laptop screens.
  • Faster access to key leave management actions.
  • Reduced navigation and scrolling requirements.

 

 

Saved Filter Preferences for Manage Leave

Users can now save their preferred advanced filters in Manage Leave, reducing the need to repeatedly configure the same filter selections.

 

Key functionality

1. Save preferred filters Users can save selected values for:

  • Approvers
  • Primary Reasons
  • Rosters
  • Statuses

Saved preferences are linked to the individual user account.

 

Automatically reapply saved filters

  • Saved filter selections are automatically restored when returning to Manage Leave.
  • Preferences persist across sessions, including after logging out and back in.
  • Temporary filter changes can still be made without overwriting saved preferences.

 

Benefits

  • Reduces repetitive filtering activity.
  • Improves productivity for regular leave approvers and administrators, who can create and save views to show requests that require their specific attention.
  • Provides a more personalised leave management experience.

 

 

Enhanced Non-Resident On-Call (NROC) Calculations

This release improves the way working time is calculated for Non-Resident On-Call (NROC) duties across rotas and rosters.

Previously, NHS at Work did not support NROC shifts with no resident period. The system has been updated to accommodate this requirement, and to calculate warnings and violations using the correct calculation for NROC expected working time.

 

Key functionality

NROC working time is now calculated using: Resident Working Time + Estimated Call-Out Time

  • Multi-day NROC duties are handled correctly.
  • NROC shifts are no longer automatically treated as fully worked where valid NROC details exist.
  • The same calculation logic is now used across:
    • Rota validation
    • Roster validation
  • Updated calculations are applied to working time checks including:
    • 48-hour average weekly working time
    • 72 hours worked within any 168-hour period

 

Benefits

  • More accurate working time calculations.
  • Improved compliance monitoring.
  • Consistent validation across rotas and rosters.

 

 

Resident Doctor Nodal Point Update (July 2026)

NHS at Work has been updated to support the July 2026 NHS Resident Doctor pay structure.

 

Key functionality

  • Nodal Point Configuration now supports numeric and alphanumeric identifiers, including:
    • 1, 2, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5a, 5b and 5c
  • New Resident Doctor nodal points and salary values have been added with an effective date of 1 April 2026.
  • Resident Doctor grade codes have been mapped to the correct nodal points for rota pay calculations.
  • Administrators can create, edit and maintain alphanumeric nodal points.
  • Historical nodal point configurations and pay calculations remain fully supported.

 

Benefits

  • Supports the latest NHS pay structure.
  • Ensures accurate rota pay calculations.

 

 

Coming Soon

 

Absence Reporting to ESR

We're introducing integrated absence reporting from NHS at Work directly to ESR, helping organisations streamline workforce administration and reduce manual data entry.

  • Reduces duplicate data entry between NHS at Work and ESR.
  • Improves efficiency for administrative and workforce teams.

  • Helps maintain consistent absence records across systems.

     

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