UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is in the market for a company to manage HR and a new electronic staff records system as part of a procurement worth up to £1.7 billion ($2 billion). One of the world's largest employers, the NHS pays around 1.8 million staff via its current Oracle E-business Suite-based HR and payroll …
Here's your answer: "... a company to manage HR and a new electronic staff records system as part of a procurement worth up to £1.7 billion ..." (my emphasis). In other words, a chunk of the money will go towards running the existing system, and another chunk will go towards developing a replacement system and (assumption, but probably a safe one) transferring the data, and another chunk will go towards running the new system.
I have not read the procurement documentation, but I would guess that there is additional work specified to be done. This sounds like a framework contract to me.
It’s far-far worse than that… as an ESR user…. . ESR is one of the (few) common core systems in use a across the NHS (unsure about Scotland) and partners like St John Ambulance.
My trust half uses it … only as a source for core NHS Heath Education England and the ‘e-Learning for health’ and uses a hodge-podge of other things inc Moodle for ‘local trust training’. Every trust feels the need to waste money putting it’s local trust spin on things. In my area there are about 7 overlapping trusts, before you even talk about General Practice.
Lots of certificates needing uploaded/sent, bad data etc. Lots of overlapping/repeated training across different courses.
Looking at ESR right now - I have ‘no training records exist’, that’s managed elsewhere. Some in developme.plus, some in Moodle.
Just really used for Payroll.
It’s already in meltdown.
Except there is no such thing as the UK NHS. We have and have always had a separate one up here in Scotland. It differs considerably from the English one. For a start there is no Internal Market up here. Trusts cooperate and share best practice developments instead of competing. There is no privatisation up here either. The incoming SNP govt in 2007 rolled back the limited amount which had happened.
Parking is free in our hospitals as well. Everywhere after the last private holdouts such as NCP here in Dundee were bought out. The barriers are up, the pay machines have “not in service” notices on them. You are not issued with a ticket on entry. There is nothing else there.
No doubt the project will soon get constipated and require the taxpayer to bend over for a gloved finger and cough up more £££
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/25/you_and_it_outsourcing/
Recruitment? Will this lot make the shortlist...
-> an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care
That's some top level civil service buffoonery.
-> The contract is also an HR outsourcing deal. It addresses talent acquisition,
They could always give it straight to Capita, based on its glowing success for the army.
The DHSC was formed in 2018 by the latest round of government meddling/restructuring, prior to that it was just the Dept for Health - which had lots of Tory and Labour government meddling/restructuring- which was itself formed in 1988 when the Tories dissolved the DHSS (Department for Health and Social Security), formed in 1968 when the government of the day meddled/restructured in dissolving the then Ministry Health and adding Social Security:
… seeing any common issues here … like perpetual government meddling….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care
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