NHS - Shared Business Services

NHS SBS partners with Software Europe to improve expenses management in the NHS.

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), a unique joint venture between the Department of Health (DH) and Steria, has partnered with Software Europe to provide expenses2010 as part of its payroll service. Through this partnership, NHS SBS will deliver even greater value to its payroll clients by offering Software Europe’s robust expenses management solution.

Currently used by 24 NHS organisations and more than 18,000 NHS employees, the expenses2010 system was developed in accordance with NHS Agenda for Change and medical staff terms and conditions. It can also manage local terms and conditions and provides a straightforward means for employees claiming travel and subsistence expenses.

NHS Shared Business Services goes live with eight new NHS Clients

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), a unique joint venture between the Department of Health and Steria, today announced a further eight new contract wins with NHS organisations totalling 17 new customers since April 2009.

NHS Shared Business Services scoops National Outsourcing Association Awards 2009

Receives ‘BPO Project of the Year’ and
‘Outsourcing Professional of the Year’

NHS Shared Business Services, the unique joint venture between IT services provider, Steria and the Department of Health (DH), has won two prestigious awards from the National Outsourcing Association (NOA). Peter Coates CBE, Commercial Director at the Department of Health, was named ‘Outsourcing Professional of the Year’; and a project which transformed the NHS SBS accounts payable function won ‘BPO Project of the Year’.

NHS Shared Business Services - delivers operational efficiencies for NHS Trusts

NHS SBS has been cited as one of the ways in which shared services can support NHS Trusts to deliver real efficiencies in back office services

NHS Shared Business Services mentioned in HM Treasury Budget report

The 2009 HM Treasury Budget report makes specific reference to NHS SBS in relation to efficiency savings in the NHS.