Magazine / Healthcare Finance December 2023
Features
The only way the NHS can address the significant challenges it faces is by working as one across system partners and professions.
The government wants to standardise the design and build of new hospitals with the aim of increasing consistency and saving money and time.
Place-based working is key to the success of systems and a recent HFMA roundtable, supported by Newton, explored the components needed.
Analysis of how costs are consumed by patients across all sectors – creating a whole patient picture – can lead to a smarter allocation of resource.
News
NHS capital budgets will need to nearly double over the three years of the next spending review to clear the building repairs backlog.
The autumn statement was described as a ‘missed opportunity’ to improve NHS funding.
The government’s new hospital programme (NHP) has delivered slower progress and higher costs than expected.
Comment
A better understanding of productivity is needed for the way services are delivered.
Limiting capital spend inhibits systems’ opportunities to improve productivity
Technical
There is widespread acceptance that there is a climate emergency, and action needs to be taken, writes Debbie Paterson.
Nine senior NHS finance managers have recently become the first to qualify for an HFMA masters-level advanced diploma via a new fast-track study route
By the time you read, this we will be on the verge of the biggest NHS finance event of the year, which of course is the HFMA annual conference.
The latest appointments updates across NHS finance
Drew Kendall has retired from his position as associate director of finance at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV).
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