Roll Out of ESR Self-Service to Junior Doctors Placed Within Trusts

St Helens and Knowsley (StHK) NHS Trust became the Lead Employer for junior doctors in the Cheshire and Merseyside (C&M) area on behalf of the Mersey Deanery in August 2010.The scale of this task, which involved managing over 2000 junior doctors, gave the trust an impetus to introduce a more efficient way of recording sickness absence. Therefore, based on the trust’s previous success in rolling out ESR self- service in-house, it was decided that the best way of achieving this was by introducing self-service to those line managers across C&M trusts to whom the junior doctors directly reported.