For NHS trusts

Job planning, appraisal and revalidation. In one place.

Give your medical staffing and revalidation teams the tools and reporting they need, and give every doctor an app to log their learning and prepare for appraisal.

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A consultant's weekly job plan timetable with the PA summary
A consultant's job plan, with PAs calculated as it's built

Why trusts choose Improval

Your medical workforce processes, sharing one record of each doctor.

E-job planning

Timetables, PAs, on-call and premium time, calculated to national terms and conditions.

Review and sign-off

Line manager and clinical director stages, with every signed-off version kept on record.

Appraisal management

Appraiser matching with capacity and conflict checks, deferrals and data checks.

Revalidation readiness

Your responsible officer sees each doctor's five-year cycle at a glance.

KPIs and board reporting

Live dashboards, Excel exports and the NHS England annual board report.

An app for every doctor

Learning, SPA evidence and appraisal preparation on iOS, Android and the web.

ESR import

Bring in posts and new starters from your ESR export, matched on assignment number.

Secure and trustworthy

UK-based data storage, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus and more.
E-job planning

Job plans that add up, and a clear picture of every service.

For consultants, SAS doctors and dentists on national contracts, and for Agenda for Change and locally agreed contracts. Designed around the NHS England e-job planning levels of attainment.

A job plan's activities with sessions, outputs, PAs and costs

Build the week, see the PAs

Doctors and managers drag sessions onto a weekly timetable. Improval works out the PAs as they go.

  • DCC, SPA, additional NHS responsibilities and external duties
  • Rotation weeks for rotas that change through the cycle
  • Premium time shaded, and on-call bands and supplements calculated
  • Agreed outputs recorded against each activity
A job plan agreed by the line manager and waiting for clinical director sign-off

Agreed, signed off and on record

Each plan goes through your review stages. Reviewers can return it with comments, and every signed-off version is kept with the calculation it was agreed on.

  • Line manager and clinical director sign-off
  • Job plan objectives linked to the doctor's PDP
  • PDF exports with your trust's logo, and Excel exports
  • Last year's plan as the starting point for this year's
Job planning coverage by staff group against the NHS England target

See the whole service

Medical staffing and clinical directors can see where every plan stands, and compare teams and specialties side by side.

  • Coverage against the NHS England measure of an active job plan, signed off in the last 12 months
  • Specialty comparison: PAs per WTE, DCC to SPA balance and on-call, with outliers flagged
  • Team timetables to see who is doing what, and when
  • Competencies and recharges tracked against activities
Appraisal and revalidation management

Know where every doctor is in their revalidation cycle.

Run the appraisal year, keep your responsible officer informed and produce your annual board report from the same data your doctors use to prepare.

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Appraiser matching with capacity and conflict checks Included
Deferrals and approved missed appraisals Included
Responsible officer readiness view Included
Revalidation recommendations, proposed then decided Included
Post-appraisal feedback on appraisers Included
NHS England annual board report Included
Moving from another system? We import your appraisal history and case records.
The appraisal management dashboard for the year

Appraisal KPIs, ready when you need them

The dashboard shows completion, sign-off, overdue and deferred appraisals for the year, and lists the named doctors behind every number.

  • Break down by designated body, specialty, grade, profession or appraiser
  • Save the views your team uses most
  • Export the dashboard or the raw data to Excel
  • Percentage of doctors with a current, signed-off appraisal, as NHS England measures it
The Improval Reflect app on a phone

Every doctor gets the Improval app

The learning doctors capture day to day becomes evidence for their SPA time and for their appraisal, in the same place as their job plan.

  1. Log learning as it happens. Speak a voice note, photograph notes, forward an email or send a WhatsApp message. Improval turns it into a structured learning entry.
  2. Show what SPA time delivers. Teaching, audit, quality improvement and CPD are recorded through the year, ready to show at job plan review against the SPA activities and outputs agreed.
  3. Arrive at appraisal prepared. Supporting information, feedback and PDP are organised in one place for the doctor and their appraiser.

A system you can trust

UK-based encrypted storage

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Your data is not used to train AI

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Same-day support

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Questions trusts ask us

Yes. Job planning and appraisal management are switched on separately, and both use the same record of each doctor, so adding the second later doesn't mean setting anyone up again.

The consultant contract (2003), the SAS contracts (2008 and 2021), dental contracts, Agenda for Change and locally agreed contracts. Your trust can adjust the contract settings to match local policy.

Yes. Import your ESR export and Improval matches posts on assignment number, adds new starters and flags anything it can't place, such as an unrecognised cost centre.

Yes. Your responsible officer and their team get read-only access to every doctor connected to your designated body, including doctors whose appraisals are managed elsewhere in Improval.

No. Doctors in your trust use Improval as part of your trust's licence, on iOS, Android and the web.

In the UK, encrypted at rest and in transit. Improval holds ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus, and your data is never used to train AI models.

See it with a demo trust

We'll walk you through job planning, appraisal management and revalidation in 30 minutes, using a fully populated demo trust.

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