Briefing / NHS financial temperature check December 2014

This is the second in a series of HFMA briefings setting out finance directors’ views on the financial issues facing the NHS. It draws on the responses of finance directors and chief finance officers (CFOs) of 119 (49%) provider trusts, 64 (30%) clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and eight (32%) area teams from across the English NHS.
For the first time we asked finance directors in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for their views and received responses from all six health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland; five NHS Scotland territorial boards, one NHS Scotland special board and three Welsh local health boards.