Salary Finance

When thinking about your wellbeing, an important - and often overlooked - part is financial. We all worry about money at some point in our lives, and we want to ensure you have access to the tools that can really make a difference.

You may remember that we previously worked with a partner called Neyber to support your financial wellbeing. We are now pleased to announce they have been acquired to form the UK’s largest financial wellbeing company, called Salary Finance.

Salary Finance offers:

● Loans repaid through salary: Loans at affordable rates with higher acceptance than banks. A lower-rate loan could help you save money by paying off more expensive debt or allow you to pay less interest if you need to borrow money for a car, home improvement or unexpected expense. Representative Rate 9.9% APR (fixed).

● Money insights: a range of tips and videos as well as tools for budgeting and saving to help make money simple.

Explore Salary Finance to find out more home.salaryfinance.com/wsh

If you have a product with Neyber, don’t worry - your product will continue to work in the same way but any communications about it will be from Salary Finance. You’ll receive further information about this from Salary Finance separately, including how to access your new Salary Finance account.

Important: This is an option, not a recommendation. West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust does not benefit from offering this service and all your communications will be with Salary Finance. Loan applications will be assessed to ensure the loan is appropriate and affordable for you. “Learn” content is for guidance and educational purposes only and is generic in nature. Salary Finance does not offer regulated financial advice. Please seek independent financial advice.

Change to covid-19 swabbing for staff and family

Since the start of the pandemic, the NHS has built a significant testing operation that includes walk-in and drive through test sites and at home testing. It has also invested in large-scale laboratories that can process and analyse swabs at scale and speed.

As a result, from November 1 we are making some changes to our approach to in-house PCR testing.We will no longer routinely offer Covid-19 PCR tests for staff or their families with suspected symptoms, or who have been identified as potential contacts of someone with Covid away from work. Instead, staff should use their nearest NHS testing centre - you can book online or by calling 119.

We will no longer operate the current testing pods near the Emergency Department at West Suffolk Hospital. We will continue to swab and test patients, and we will also offer PCR tests to staff in the event of a suspected outbreak at work. These changes will help us focus on patient testing to help with capacity across our services, and will often mean faster turnaround for staff results by taking advantage of national laboratory capacity. Staff will also be able to more easily register their results in the NHS Covid App.