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    Doctor Rostering in Compliance with the New UK Junior Doctor Contract

    Lavygina, A, Welsh, A and Crispin, AJ (2017) Doctor Rostering in Compliance with the New UK Junior Doctor Contract. In: The 11th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA'17), 16 December 2017 - 18 December 2017, Shanghai, China.

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    Abstract

    In 2016 the UK government imposed a new contract on junior doctors working for the country’s National Health Service. This new contract significantly changed the way in which hospitals and health trusts create rosters, introducing new constraints and a system of fines levied against employers should a doctor be required to work an undesirable or potentially unsafe shift pattern. In this paper, we present a new rostering problem set based upon this new junior doctor contract that models hospital departments varied in size, cover requirements, and contracted working patterns. We present the results of experiments in creating valid rosters for our problem set using a construction heuristic,and optimised using simulated annealing.

    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
    Published Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
    Volume: 10628
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2018 12:37
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    Subject terms: Doctor Rostering, New Contract, Scheduling and optimization, 08 Information And Computing Sciences, Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/619524
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71147-8_27
    ISSN 0302-9743

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