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2026.40.1

A guide for clinics, and an honest look at agency cover

29/09/2026

The blog gains a guide for dental, physio and private clinics on what minimum cover per session really means, who covers the lone receptionist's break, how to handle two people asking for the same week off, and what last-minute agency cover actually costs once you count it properly.

Highlights

  • Minimum cover per session - the front desk is either staffed or it is not, so the guide starts from the session rather than the day, and works back to what the rota has to hold.
  • The lone receptionist's break - the most common gap in a clinic rota is the twenty minutes nobody planned for. The guide covers who steps in, and what the rules require when one person is on their own.
  • Holiday clashes and agency cover - what to do when two people want the same week, what a last-minute booking really costs once you count the premium and the lost familiarity, and the cheaper options to try first.

Worth knowing

  • Nothing changes inside the app. This release is the public site only. Your rotas, clock-ins and timesheets are untouched.

Changes

Features

  • content(blog): a guide on clinic reception cover, minimum staffing per session, break cover and the cost of agency staff.

Fixes

  • ci(blog): generated posts now run the content tests and a production build before they reach review. A pull request opened by the automation does not start the usual checks, so until now a post arrived with only a preview deployment behind it.