NHS to provide further shared payroll services

System will handle staff payroll data in 100 NHS trusts on shared services scheme

The deal with Manpower Software will free up NHS staff to concentrate on healthcare

The NHS is forming a strategic alliance with Manpower Software to ease the burden on its current human resources systems.

Through its NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) arm, a joint venture between the Department of Health and supplier Steria, the NHS will work with Manpower to provide outsourced HR functions for over 100 NHS organisations.

Jim Vincent, managing director of NHS SBS, claimed that the deal will allow NHS trusts to concentrate on healthcare.

"NHS SBS has given the NHS the freedom to concentrate on its core function of providing local people with high-quality clinical care," he said.

"Our partnership with Manpower Software will drive forward our strategy in providing an increasing range of software applications that have been handpicked to deliver faster, streamlined and more cost-efficient processing right across the NHS."

The system will handle administration, payroll data and staff records.