Seamus Ward assesses the past month in healthcare finance.
Ahead of the HFMA PCT conference – to be held on 30 June in Birmingham – Cathy Kennedy argues that commissioners are showing signs of coming of age.
Just over 16,000 finance staff work in the English NHS, according to a new finance function census by the HFMA.
The national deficit is real, so NHS protection from further cuts in 2010/11 is no reason to take the foot off the efficiency pedal.