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Half a million NHS employees now paid by ESR

The UK’s largest integrated HR and payroll system — the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system from McKesson — has now added its 500,000th NHS employee live onto the system to successfully be paid by ESR.

When complete, all 1.2 million NHS staff — over 7% of the UK workforce — will be paid by ESR, which is being delivered by healthcare IT systems specialist McKesson.

ESR is part of a programme of change and innovation within the NHS — the NHS Improvement Plan — and is designed to transform the way the NHS delivers both payroll and HR services to its employees.

In doing so, McKesson is working to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the NHS. The project is expected to deliver benefits which include both national-level benefits supporting strategic planning and the devolution of responsibilities to local, front-line organisations as well as employee-specific benefits including improved payroll information, appraisal and training provision.

Source: bjhc&im December 2006

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