Best of Breed NHS Expense Management Partners with Best of Breed e-Rostering

• Monday, 23 November 2009

Best of Breed NHS Expense Management Partners with Best of Breed e-Rostering

expenses2010, the leading provider for online-expenses management solutions to the NHS today announced an exclusive relationship with SMART, a key provider of workforce management software solutions. The collaboration enables SMART to offer the NHS a complete solution to automate not only the capture of working hours data but employee expenses information as well, helping to provide further efficiencies to the payroll process.

Software Europe’s expenses2010 is a modern and intuitive web-based user interface that provides secure access to every user; ensuring a simple process to submit, authorise and audit expense data within Agenda for Change rules, without extensive training. Working with the NHS the software has been configured to fit seamlessly into the employee reclamation process and includes a unique bi-directional interface to the ESR HR and payroll system, in use across the NHS.

Commenting on the recent agreement, Neil Everatt, Managing Director of Software Europe, said: “expenses2010 has a unique reputation as the class leading solution for expenses management in the NHS, we wanted to find an equal partner for e-Rostering and it didn’t take long to find SMART. This partnership means that NHS customers get the very best solutions for their expenses and e-Rostering needs, and they are well established as methods of reducing cost and delivering superior services.”

SMART’s workforce management software enables delivery of an accurate payroll through the automated capture of actual hours worked and improved roster planning, the expenses solution from Software Europe will further extend SMART’s offering to the NHS to help provide transparency, accuracy and efficiencies at a time when public spending remains high on the government agenda.

Tristan Spencer, Health Market Director at SMART said, “We work closely with our NHS customers and have listened to their requests for SMART to help improve efficiencies across the entire spectrum of workforce management, including expenses; this is a natural consideration for trusts that are focused on reducing costs related to the management of staff”.

Tristan Spencer continued, “We have chosen to work exclusively with Software Europe to offer an expenses solution as they are an established organisation with 24 trusts using their systems already. This decision follows our current strategy to work with specialist organisations to bring the very best products as a package to the NHS, rather than try to create this as part of our own system”.

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Notes to Editors:

Software Europe

For the last ten years Software Europe has spent time researching and developing expenses2010, a centrally hosted web-based expense management solution that provides a simple process for employees to submit, authorise, reimburse and audit employee business expenses, providing a digital upgrade to the expense claim spreadsheet.

Leading the way, expenses2010 currently being used by 24 NHS organisations, and over 18,000 NHS Staff, provides a straightforward means to guide the claimant through inputting their expenses for travel and subsistence. With extensive research and developed in collaboration with a steering committee of NHS Trusts and the dedicated ESR NHS Interface Team in harmony with Agenda for Change and Medical Staff terms & conditions, expenses2010 removes the administrative burden of processing expense claims.

Delivering time savings to the claimant along with significant cost savings to the organisation, expenses2010 includes automatic mileage verification, a unique bi-directional seamless interface in to the NHS Electronic Staff Record and spend management reporting which provides a more reliable and transparent means for accurate claim reimbursement.

Software (Europe) Ltd, trading as Software Europe, is an independent company with 20 years experience delivering exceptional products and high quality service that strive to streamline business processes and reduce corporate spend; which today is imperative for all businesses to survive.

For further information please contact:

Adele Briggs, Marketing Manager, Software Europe.
Tel: 01522 881300
Email: adele-briggs@software-europe.co.uk
Please visit our NHS Website: www.nhsexpenses.co.uk

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