- Electronic Staff Record
Electronic Staff Record or ESR is an Oracle-based human resources and payroll database system currently used by the 586 organizations of the NHS in the
England andWales to manage the payroll for 1.2 million NHS staff members. ESR is provided byMcKesson Corporation .The implementation of ESR is one of the largest IT implementations in the world and replaced 29 payroll systems and approximately 38 human resources systems used throughout the NHS. The NHS is variously the third or fifth largest employer in the world, after the Chinese army,
Indian Railways and (as argued by Jon Hibbs, the NHS's head of news, in a press release from March 22, 2005)Wal-Mart and theUnited States Department of Defense .Delivery
Implementation of ESR was completed in March 2008 when the last of twelve "waves" (groups) of organizations went live. [http://www.esrsolution.co.uk/ ESR Official Web Site] ] Starting in 2006, groups of around 50 trusts were implemented every two months.
References
External links
* [http://www.esrsolution.co.uk/ ESR Official Web Site]
* [http://www.esrsolution.com/ ESR Implementation Resource]
* [http://www.mckesson.co.uk/ McKesson Corporation Official UK Web Site]
* [http://www.nhs.uk/ National Health Service Official Web Site]
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