RouteHub plans the perfect daily schedule for dentists visiting nursing homes — minimising travel time, maximising patient visits, and handling lunch breaks automatically.
See it in action
Thursday 26 June 2025 · Leeds region
Dr Sarah Mitchell
Route fit: Excellent
18
Patients
66 min
Drive
16:20
Day end
Heatherfield House
8 Rose Lane, Leeds LS17 5NR
Interactive mockup — click a stop to see its details
Our 8-step engine optimises visit order using real traffic data, so dentists spend less time driving and more time with patients.
Detects travel-time gaps and inserts compliant lunch breaks without disrupting the day's patient schedule.
Send nurses a password-protected mobile link with turn-by-turn directions. No app download required.
Automatically assigns the best-fit dentist to each day based on home location, route alignment, and commute time.
Maintain a central directory of nursing homes with patient counts, setup times, and visit preferences.
Full audit log of every route calculated. Replay past days, track patterns, and export for reporting.
Generic sat-nav and spreadsheet planning ignore the realities of dental visits — patient no-shows, care home lunch windows, and traffic that changes by the hour. RouteHub was built from the ground up to handle all of it.
Before calculating a single route, RouteHub queries Google's Routes Matrix API for your specific date and departure time — fetching real-time travel durations between every pair of locations simultaneously. Your Tuesday 8 AM route reflects Tuesday 8 AM traffic, not a historical guess. No other dental scheduling tool does this.
Using your historical no-show rate per care home, RouteHub calculates the realistic number of patients for each visit — not the optimistic number on the booking sheet. Session durations are sized accordingly, so the schedule holds up in practice.
For up to 8 stops, the engine tests every possible visiting order — tens of thousands of combinations — and picks whichever sequence sees the most patients before the day ends. For larger days, a nearest-neighbour algorithm with 2-opt refinement finds a near-optimal solution in milliseconds.
Care homes often can't receive visitors during staff lunch. RouteHub detects any session that would clash and applies the least disruptive fix: finishing before lunch, resuming after, nudging a flexible window, or swapping two stops — always choosing the option that preserves the most patient appointments.
When multiple dentists are available, the engine ranks them against the day's route using three factors: how closely their home aligns with the direction of travel, driving distance to the midpoint of the route, and public transit time. The best-fit person goes first on the list.
Set an appointment time for any care home and RouteHub automatically works backwards through the live travel duration to tell the driver exactly when they need to leave the previous stop — no mental arithmetic, no missed slots.
One click generates a password-protected mobile link. The driver gets every stop, arrival time, patient count, and a Waze navigation button — all formatted for a phone screen, no app download required.
The full engine runs in under 3 seconds for a typical day with 6 stops — including live traffic lookups, optimisation, and conflict resolution.
See it plan your first route →Register the nursing homes you visit with patient counts and appointment preferences.
Create dentist profiles with home locations so RouteHub can score route fit.
Pick a date and stops — the engine returns an optimised schedule in seconds.
Send a secure mobile link. Nurses get directions and stop details on any device.
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