Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest Trusts in the UK, providing comprehensive acute services for the local population in West London, and specialist healthcare nationally and internationally. The Trust has a strong history of education and research and consists of Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospitals.
Charing Cross and Hammersmith are both teaching hospitals, whilst Queen Charlotte's specialises in women's and children's services and maternity.
The Trust employs approximately 6,000 members of staff, across various departments and sites.
With a focus on providing family-friendly benefits, the Trust offers working parents the opportunity to request Childcare Vouchers in exchange for part of their salary. The voucher scheme for the Trust is operated by Busy Bees Childcare Vouchers.
Patricia Arney, Acting Payroll Manager at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We have been with Busy Bees Childcare Vouchers for 3 years now and have a good number of parents requesting vouchers each month. We offer it as a benefit because it falls in line with the Trust’s family-friendly initiatives and we know that it will save people money on the cost of their childcare.
“Due to Busy Bees doing most of the administration work that is required to run the scheme, Payroll’s involvement is minimal, perhaps just an hour a month at the most. This means we can concentrate on purely our day to day work.”
Busy Bees administers Childcare Voucher schemes for more than 300 health trusts in the UK and help parents and their employers to save millions of pounds on childcare a year.