For radiographers

Scanning runs to a rota. Being called in at three does not

Imaging departments run scheduled lists during the day and an on-call service outside them. The rota is knowable; whether you sleep through a night on call is not, and that uncertainty is the part everyone at home finds hardest to plan around.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Scheduled lists

Booked days that overrun when a list runs late or an emergency arrives mid-session.

On-call nights

At home, phone on, called in for urgent imaging. A quiet night and a brutal one look identical in advance.

Weekend rotas

Across the team, set months ahead.

Modality cover

CT, MRI and general each have their own cover requirements, so which one you are on changes the shape of the week.

What it sounds like at home

“On-call reads as a night in to everyone but me.”
“I get called at two and I am useless the next day, which nobody sees coming.”
“A list overruns and my evening disappears without warning.”
“The weekend rota is set in advance and remembered by nobody.”
“My family cannot tell an on-call night from a normal one.”

Where Freeish fits

On-call nights go in as blocks, so the whole evening reads as taken rather than free.

When you are called in, add it — the following day being written off is then visible too.

Weekend rotas import once and stay right for months.

Recovery after a bad on-call can be an event, which is the only way anyone else knows.

One week, start to finish

Priya, CT radiographer

Priya puts the six-week rota in from a screenshot.
On-call nights show as blocks, so nothing gets booked into them.
She is called in twice on a Tuesday night and adds both.
The Wednesday is marked as recovery and the household plans around it.
Her partner stops discovering on the day that she was up all night.

Questions radiographers ask

Can I show on-call differently from a working shift?

Label it however you like. The useful part is that it reads as unavailable to the people following you rather than as a free evening.

Can it import a departmental rota?

Screenshot it and import the picture, then check what it read before saving.

Does the hospital see any of this?

No. There is no connection to any employer system in either direction.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.