Software Europe saves NHS thousands

Software Europe's Expenses Health, already used by over 50 NHS clients, has been selected by six further NHS organisations to help save thousands.

Software Europe, the largest provider of online expenses management solutions to the NHS, is pleased to announce the acquisition of six new Expenses Health contracts.

Software Europe’s Expenses Health has already been selected by in excess of 50 NHS organisations with over 140,000 NHS professionals claiming their expenses online, totalling 1.1 million expenses claims per year. Detailed analysis demonstrates that implementing Expenses Health typically delivers Trusts with an average reduction in spend of 15-20%. Implementation and deployment can occur in as little as five weeks, giving a compelling return.

The online solutions provide a faster and more accurate service for employees, making former paper based processes redundant. It can be used to significantly improve compliance, eliminate errors and provide a cost-reducing and greener service.

One of the key features for expenses is the innovative mileage calculation system, to calculate the exact mileage travelled between postcodes, automatically deducting travel to and from home. The technology even allows for further reimbursement for carrying bulky items, and dependant on how many passengers are present, at each stage of the journey.

This quarter, Care Plus, NAViGO, NHS Nottingham County and City and NHS Berkshire and two other NHS organisations have recognised the innovative product as the appropriate choice to simplify their expenses management processes. The stability offered by Software Europe, who are continuing to see growth despite the uncertain economic climate faced by some businesses, is an influencing factor on these decisions. Software Europe is continually reinvesting into product development and recruitment.

James Thompson Business Development Manager, Software Europe commented that as NHS organisations are challenged to £20 Billion of efficiency savings by 2015, increasingly expenses automation is seen as a proven solution for Trust to realise their QIPP savings. The recent purchase of Expenses Health by new commissioning clusters; acute, community, mental health and social enterprises demonstrates the flexibility of the solution for all health service professionals and ease by which organisations can realise financial benefits.

FACRFILE:
• Software Europe is a well-regarded UK supplier of web-based employee expenses and contract management solutions. Since 1989 Software Europe has been delivering exceptional products and high quality service that strive to streamline business processes and reduce spend.
• Expenses Health is a secure, online solution that provides a simple policy compliance process for employees to submit, authorise, reimburse and audit employee business expenses. With an extensive list of benefits Expenses Health includes mileage calculations, self-registration, duty of care management, carbon emission reporting and eForms to automate approval processes such as holiday requests. It is also tailored to suit the NHS with a bi-directional ESR interface.

Please visit their website for further information http://www.nhsexpenses.co.uk/

Software Europe set to save the NHS thousands of pounds with new app for BlackBerry smartphones

Joins BlackBerry Alliance Program as a Select member

Software Europe, the largest provider of online expenses management solutions for the NHS, today announced plans to bring its expenses application to users on BlackBerry® smartphones. The company also announced it has joined the BlackBerry® Alliance Program as a Select member.

For over 10 years Software Europe has been providing professionals in both the commercial and public sector, with online expenses and contract management solutions. The financial benefits of automating employee expenses are very compelling. For example, the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust reported a massive £100,000 saving in the first ten months of automating their employee expenses online.

Software Europe’s Expenses Health has already been chosen by over 47 NHS organisations with over 140,000 NHS professionals claiming their expenses online, totalling 1.1 million expenses claims per year. Detailed analysis demonstrates that implementing Expenses Health typically delivers Trusts with an average reduction in spend of 15-20%. Using BlackBerry smartphones will greatly enhance the efficiency of the NHS employee expenses process further, being able to record, authorise, reimburse and audit employee expenses away from their desk.

“Joining the BlackBerry Alliance Program comes at an opportune time when we are developing mobile applications for our online solutions,” expresses Neil Everatt, Managing Director of Software Europe. “Being a part of this community is very advantageous and we hope that our expertise as leaders in expenses and contract management will add great value and enhance the service for BlackBerry smartphone users. We pride ourselves in being at the forefront of technology and see this new partnership as another huge leap ahead in offering the very best in cloud technology for our customers.”

As a Select member of the BlackBerry Alliance Program, Software Europe will be able to take advantage of support, development and marketing resources from Research In Motion, to help enhance the mobile offering of Software Europe’s leading SaaS solutions. The use of BlackBerry smartphones is particularly prevalent within the NHS because the solution offers policy controls and high levels of security management. With its membership in the program, Software Europe is aiming to advance its relationships across industry sectors, providing access to an enhanced mobile platform for products already proven to increase efficiencies and make huge cost savings.

Software Europe is looking forward to launching its mobile applications in the new year. The first mobile application for BlackBerry smartphones will provide both private and public sector employees a convenient and fast way to record their expenses while on the move.