By Amanda White 22 January 2011
Leasing and salary sacrifice provider, Tusker, has been selected by the newly-launched NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NHS CPC) to provide lease cars, salary sacrifice cars and grey fleet management services any of the 400-plus NHS Trusts nationally the new health service fleet management offering covers. In addition Tusker will also address reducing carbon footprint, costs and administration, and improving the driver experience.
Tusker will also be providing an electronic, web-based expenses system to NHS CPC Drive in conjunction with leading HR software solutions provider, NorthgateArinso, to deliver reduced administration and processing costs and improve claims accuracy.
So far, three NHS Trusts - the Yorkshire and Humberside Strategic Health Authority, NHS Leeds and the Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust (PFT) - have signed up to the lease car scheme, covering a total of 750 cars. In addition, two trusts, Leeds PFT and Queen’s Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, between them covering 5,400 employees, have signed up to the salary sacrifice scheme.
Julian Clarke, Head of Fleet Services at NHS CPC Drive, said the new initiative was intended to provide more efficient buying for a range of fleet services for NHS Trusts throughout the UK.
“We wanted to provide an online all-embracing fleet services solution which covered lease cars, grey fleet, salary sacrifice cars and an electronic expenses system to NHS Trusts to take control of their business travel spend and deliver considerable savings which can be released to improve frontline services for patients,” he said.
“We have been very pleased by the initial uptake, and are confident that much larger numbers amongst NHS Trusts will take up the new service,” added Julian Clarke.
Tusker managing director David Hosking said: “We are delighted to have been selected to provide a range of leasing and expense management services to the new NHS CPC Drive fleet management platform, and to help deliver more efficient and cost-effective fleet services to NHS Trusts throughout the UK.”
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