Case Study: Mater Health Services achieves rapid clinical placement insights — cutting reporting from two weeks to five minutes with Tableau Software

Faster insight into clinical placement at Mater Health Services

Mater Health Services’ Student Placement Online Tool (SPOT) manages clinical placements for medical, nursing and allied health students. The education team lacked quick, consolidated access to placement data because hospital IT prioritised patient‑facing systems, forcing manual Excel collection and slow IT requests that left them unable to promptly answer government queries or assess future workforce needs.

Connecting SPOT to Tableau gave the team self‑service analytics to pull and visualise data instantly. Reporting that once took about two weeks can now be produced in roughly five minutes, enabling faster stakeholder responses and clearer planning to meet growth targets.

Mater Health Services

Troy Forster

SPOT Manager