"We are delighted to win recognition that we are serious about looking after our most important asset - our people," said Jane Conner, System C's director of human resources. "It is particularly important that we work hard in this area because System C's employees work in so many different client organisations, and often under high pressure."

The company has also grown very rapidly over the last 18 months, with the numbers of employees rising from 211 to 378 in the year to December 2009, Jane Conner added.

The Best Companies scheme sets out to give an unbiased and authoritative view of a company's employee engagement by analysing the views of its own employees.

The research measures eight key factors of engagement under the headings 'my manager', 'leadership', 'my company', 'personal growth', 'my team', 'giving something back', 'fair deal' and 'wellbeing'.

Some 1,086 organisations entered the 2010 scheme. Of these, 410 were given an award and 140 received the 2-star 'outstanding' status.

"Our aim is to be the employer of choice in health and social care IT, and we are thrilled that our success in meeting that aim is being recognised by our own people and by the Best Companies judges," Jane Conner said.

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About Best Companies
Best Companies has been making an impact on workplace engagement since 2000. As the name behind the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For lists, Best Companies conducts the largest employee engagement survey in the world, having received nearly one million survey responses from over 3000 different organisations. www.bestcompanies.co.uk

About System C Healthcare plc
System C Healthcare plc (www.systemc.com) specialises in the provision of health and social care information systems, systems implementation and consulting services.

System C Healthcare is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (SYS.L).