NHS Workforce Transformation Solution - Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Services

The NHSBSA is considering its next steps in development of its business case for the future NHS workforce solution. The NHSBSA engaged with the market in July 2021 regarding the Discovery exercise and its findings. The NHSBSA wants to now consult with the market on the Commercial content of the Outline Business Case. The Supplier Market Engagement Event, which the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is hosting, is at 10:00 till 11:30 (GMT), Wednesday 10 November 2021. The event will be via a Webinar. Interested parties should register their interest by sending an email to Caroline Cornick on email: caroline.cornick@nhs.net with names, roles and email addresses of attendees to be invited to the event. The NHSBSA will be issuing a set of Request for Information (RFI) questions after the event. Responses to the RFI are required by Wednesday 24 November 2021, to enable the NHSBSA to consider the next steps. Depending on feedback from the RFI there may be an opportunity to have 1 to 1 discussions later. ESR includes, but is not limited to, the provision of the following core services:-— Payroll— Core HR (e.g. key personnel events; leave and absence; education, training and organisational structures; approvals, revalidations/fitness to practice)— Recruitment— Integrated Identity Management— Occupational Health— Finance— Learning Management (including e-Learning)— Manager and Employee Self Service— Talent Management/Compliance Management— Data Warehouse— Management Reporting – Local and National.— Inter Employee Authority Data Transfer Service.— Associated Framework Services (e.g. expenses solutions)— Total Reward Statements— Interoperability with other services and options (including NHS Jobs & NHS Pensions). The ESR solution and related services are provided by the current provider under a managed service contract which, will run until August 2025. The NHS ESR solution is one of the Workforce services provided by the NHSBSA and is an Oracle based workforce management tool for the integrated HR, payroll, learning management and business intelligence. The Solution currently services over 1.8m employees in over 440 organisations. Additional information: This event follows on from the previous supplier engagement event held in July 2021. To be invited to the event please email Caroline Cornick email: caroline.cornick@nhs.net with names, roles and email addresses of attendees.