Queen Elizabeth Hospital selects NHS CPC Drive salary sacrifice

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust has selected NHS CPC Drive’s salary sacrifice solution for more than 2,000 staff so that they can select a new car as part of their flexible benefits package.

NHS CPC Drive was selected via the NHS focused fleet management service, which provides a single online platform offering a range of fleet services available to any of the 400-plus NHS Trusts nationally.

Earlier this year, NHS CPC Drive announced it would work with Tusker to provide lease cars, salary sacrifice cars through Tusker’s SS4C solution, grey fleet management services and electronic expenses management for the newly-launched service that aims to deliver best value to NHS Trusts.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is now one of several NHS bodies to take advantage of the scheme and has set a carbon cap of 150g/km on all cars that employees can order under the new scheme to help promote its green credentials and sustainability.

Allen Scholes, head of purchasing and supply at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said: “There has been a very positive reaction to the scheme which went live last month and we already have orders into double figures. We are expecting uptake of around 2% per annum of all eligible staff.”

A stakeholder group involving finance, HR, payroll, environmental and communications departments was set up initially to consider the viability of the scheme. NHS CPC then presented a project plan and oversaw it through to implementation.

The salary sacrifice scheme is delivered through NHS CPC Drive and Tusker’s automated, electronic salary sacrifice car solution SS4C which staff find very easy to use and simple to operate.

“We communicated the scheme to staff through our weekly online magazine and we have received numerous enquiries from interested parties,” added Scholes.