Blogs
2015 Payroll Support Team of the Year
Our Support Team won ‘Best Payroll Support Team’ at the prestigious Payroll World Awards ceremony held in London on 12 November. Launched in 2011 the Payroll World Awards is now firmly established as the leading awards platform for the payroll industry. The award was judged on the teams’ ability to provide: Effective support o...
New travel expense guide
With effect from 1st July 2013, a new system for reimbursing business travel for staff using their own vehicle or pedal cycles will come into effect where they have previously been in receipt of nationally agreed rates. Some NHS organisations have alternative arrangements agreed locally and it will be for those partnerships to agree the mileage re...
Electronic payslips
Although this functionality is currently available to organisations that use Employee Self Service in ESR, it was recognised that a development to enable all staff to access their payslips electronically was required. This is currently being scoped as a national development. ...
Total Reward Statements (TRS)
The provision of pension statements is a national requirement, from October/ November 2013 these will be provided to staff in the form of total reward statements. These statements will be split into four sections: 1. Personal information – Including name, address, date of birth and National Insurance Number 2. ESR information – This w...
Pension auto-enrolment
A change in law means that all UK employers must enrol eligible workers into a workplace pension scheme. The date by which you need to do this varies depending on the size of organisation. The largest employers started auto enrolment in October 2012 and all companies will comply with the new regulation by 2017. Auto enrolment is a major project fo...
RTI so far
You may have heard the way we report PAYE to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has changed and you may have heard this referred to as Real Time Information (RTI). This means information is submitted on a periodic basis instead of once at the end of each financial year. Northumbria Healthcare has been involved in this work for some time now as we wer...