In his speech at the Conservative Party Conference the Secretary of State, Health, Jeremy Hunt promised the introduction of a technical web based application to facilitate logging on for additional hospital shifts.

In subsequent coverage on LBC , NHS contributors queried the alleged benefits of the promised app as:

• their insurance required that their employment was already only at the SAME NHS Trust
• NHS Hospital  Trusts were already introducing shift e-rostering on which medical staff could offer to undertake "bank" shifts
• When undertaking "bank shifts" the pay offered was the lowest for the employee grade for the post  and not the "real grade" of the employee