Strategic Collaboration of NHS Workforce Services

With effect from 1 April 2018, the NHS ESR Programme, together with NHS Jobs, will be joining the new NHS Workforce Services directorate of the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). NHSBSA is a Strategic Health Authority and Arm’s-Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). It already administers the NHS Pensions Scheme and a HR Shared Service function to ALBs.

Whilst the ESR Programme will continue to operate as-is, by bringing together NHS Jobs, ESR, HR Shared Services and NHS Pensions, the NHSBSA is uniquely placed as an ALB to facilitate shared learning and innovation across the services, whilst retaining the individual identities of each.

In a joint statement, Gordon Coyne, NHSBSA Director of NHS Workforce Services and Paul Spooner, NHS ESR Programme Director said:

‘We’re pleased to see such complementary NHS workforce programmes coming together under a single governance model. The individual programmes of NHS Jobs, ESR, NHS Pensions and NHSBSA HR Shared Services have always maintained a very close and positive relationship, which is reflected by the integration that is in place today. We’re looking forward to optimising the benefits of working more closely together, which will help us achieve our principal goal of providing both excellent and value-add workforce services to the NHS.’