HealthRota vs CEMBooks 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
HealthRota
This application provides flexible and staff-friendly rostering solutions for healthcare professionals. It allows users to view their shifts, manage leave requests, and record working hours. The app ensures clear communication and up-to-date scheduling for all team members.
- Flexible rostering solutions
- View shifts, leave, and activities
- Apply for annual leave
- Record SPA and admin time
- Record actual hours worked
- Track exceptions
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HealthRota is a rota planning application for NHS trusts, offering flexible and staff friendly rostering solutions to ensure a fair, transparent and sustainable working schedule. The phone app gives rota members a clear view of their shifts, leave and planned activities, wherever they are, always up to date. You can see all the details of your shifts, including information on who you are working with. Rota members can also apply for annual leave, enter SPA and admin time as well as recording future unavailability, simply and quickly, as and when they need to. At the end of your shift, the app can be used to record the actual hours worked, and where applicable, to record exceptions against it.
CEMBooks 2
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CEMBooks 2.0 is a next generation operational system designed by senior emergency consultants and hospital mangers to provide visibility to the barriers of safe patient care and improve operational resilience across a system. It is scalable from individual department to multi-centre trusts, Integrated Care Systems or other complex systems. Features: Operational System Overview Single system view of all departments with status scores Single touch navigation to department for more details Situation Reports Four level OPEL scoring Report schedule Fully customisable per KPI (binary and text) Department specific narrative Third party integration KPI variation for time of day Perpe Escalation Engine Dedicated escalation centre Escalation tailored for each KPI Escalation action variation for time of day Automated triggering and notification of escalation actions Escalation lockout time Escalation messaging (components response) Escalation efficacy monitoring Logs and Reports Customisable logs Log Library (System, organisational, departmental) Log tagging to roles Perpetual capture of Logs and SitReps Roles Responsibility & Accountability Accountable role / individual messaging & notification Escalation linked to department or system role Time tabled system and departmental roles Transparent auditable role based problem mitigation Informed tagging / alerts Evidence individual / role awareness per event Resource management Phonebook (active individuals and roles) Document library with built in governance Web links Search Universal search Date or date range Key word
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HealthRota at every 5 days against CEMBooks 2's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HealthRota ships an update every 5 days, CEMBooks 2 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HealthRota | CEMBooks 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days โ better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 15.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HealthRota Limited | iED Limited |
In-app purchases
HealthRota
No in-app purchases
CEMBooks 2
No in-app purchases








