Business support specialist NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has been appointed to handle a range of employment administration services on behalf of Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Within the five-year contract NHS SBS is administering the payroll and pensions requirements for the Trust’s more than 4,000 employees, providing a streamlined efficient service that will free-up time for in-house staff to spend on more value added activities.

The contract, which recently went live, underlines the growth of NHS SBS’s employment services division which now works with 73 NHS clients and is responsible for paying more than 200,000 NHS employees with an accuracy rate of 99.8%.

Alan Evans, Aintree’s HR project manager, says: “I have been impressed with the professional way in which the transition has been managed. We are confident that Aintree has made the right decision in selecting NHS SBS to provide our payroll and pensions services.”

Tasy Warn, NHS SBS director of employment services adds: “We’re delighted to be working with Aintree. It has been vitally important to provide a smooth transition of the services and this has been successful, partly because of the close working partnership we have established. This partnership will continue as our team becomes an extension of the in-house team.”

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