The Trust’s current contract for the provision of financial services (i.e. finance and procurement) from NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) is coming to an end on 31 March 2022.
From 1 April 2022, financial services will be provided by University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. This means that the use of Oracle as the Trust’s finance and purchasing system will cease from this date and will be replaced by Unit 4 (previously known as Agresso).
Any tasks previously carried out on Oracle will now move to Unit 4, and as such, there is some user specific training which needs to take place. The first phase of the training programme will be to ensure that the business as usual procurement and payment service is maintained after 1 April and will therefore be targeted at Oracle users who:
- requisition/order goods and services and/or
- authorise invoices.
Where users requisition/order goods there will be a 1 hour training session users will need to attend. For the authorisation of invoices, there will be a 30 minute training session.
The training sessions will take place each day, Monday to Friday for three weeks from 7 February. The sessions will be delivered via MSTeams.
If you are currently an Oracle requisitioner or authoriser please ensure that you book onto either one, or both, of the sessions, as appropriate, via ESR. On ESR the sessions are:
842 FS REQ Financial System Requisitioner Training, or follow this link.
842 FS AUTH Financial System Authoriser Training, or follow this link.
Please carry on using the Oracle system as normal until further notice. Further communications will be provided in due course regarding cutover periods.