Financial regime and performance
Helping finance staff and others to understand the NHS financial regime, including financial settlements, how funds are allocated down to systems or health boards and the payment systems used to remunerate providers of healthcare services.
Policy and guidance
An overview of commissioning for specialised services, and the move of responsibility for some specialised areas to integrated care boards.
A comprehensive guide of how the NHS finance regime works, as well as the wider landscape in which it operates.
This map provides a quick reference guide to key guidance documents, national statistics and data from across healthcare systems and think tanks.
Our detailed directory of all the resources the HFMA has on offer.
A tool promoting best practice in the efficient and effective use of resources to deliver high-quality sustainable healthcare.
This briefing pulls out key points from all documents within the 2024/25 operational planning and contracting guidance pack.
From April, some integrated care boards will take on full delegation of specialised services.
The HFMA has responded to NHS England's consultation on the role of incentives in general practice
An overview of the commissioning of secondary & tertiary healthcare from NHS providers under the NHS payment scheme & NHS standard contract.
The HFMA has responded to the consultation on the 2024/25 NHS payment scheme.
The HFMA has responded to the consultation on the changes to the NHS standard contract for 2024/25
The HFMA sets out its views on the current NHS pressures and what needs to happen now.
The HFMA has responded to the consultation on the 2023/25 NHS payment scheme.
The HFMA annual awards recognise best practice in financial reporting, financial management and governance.
News and analysis
The penultimate week of the general election campaign started with a brutal pulling apart of the various parties’ published manifestos.
The next UK government will face a choice between raising taxes, cutting spending or increasing borrowing, the IFS said this week.
Further manifestos this week have started to recognise the NHS's broader funding needs rather than simply costing specific initiatives and promises.
The NHS could face a £38bn shortfall in funding by the end of the next Parliament, according to analysis by the Health Foundation
After the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats released their manifestos for the July general election, other parties have followed suit.
Lots of pledges on health and social care in this week's manifestos. But they raise questions about how the promises would be achieved and funded.
Cutting down NHS waiting lists and training thousands of new GPs were key areas of the Labour party manifesto ahead of next month’s general election.
The next government should prioritise continuity of care in general practice, avoid blanket targets for GP access and reform the dental contract.
NHS England has released details of a new mental health currency to replace clusters and is looking for NHS providers to improve data quality.
The Liberal Democrats put the NHS at the centre of its manifesto for government this week, promising a £9.4bn rescue package.
The Conservative party has committed to increasing NHS spending above inflation every year in its pitch for re-election next month.
The Northern Ireland Assembly passed its first budget in three years this week, despite concerns it could damage health and care services.
NHS England has issued an update to finance rules for 2024/25, detailing a system of capital bonuses and penalties to encourage systems to hit plans.
Promises to move care away from hospitals and into the community have not been matched by changes in funding for the different sectors.
With long waiting lists, industrial action and financial challenges, the NHS and social care will be in the spotlight in the run up to the election.
Real-terms health spending in England has risen less quickly than was planned at the 2019 general election, according to the IFS.
Last week’s Northern Ireland budget for 2024/25 leaves health and care services facing a cut in funding, according to the country’s health minister.
The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed a Budget for 2024/25 with no department receiving the level of funding it bid for.
Hospice leaders have called for a new palliative care funding model that includes more government funding to support their core costs.
Service targets in the planning guidance appear at odds with the available funding.
Upcoming events
Welcome to an exclusive HFMA lunch and learn session spotlighting the success story of the finance team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation
The Engagement Value Outcome (EVO) Framework has been designed to help teams improve patient care at the system level
The HFMA mental health conference is a learning and development event and is the largest face to face event for the HFMA Hub mental health network.
On-demand events
The session will give an overview of RPA, including a look at how it works and the benefits of having ‘bots’ helping your finance processes.
Sofiya is a Finance Assistant at NELFT and is passionate about making the apprenticeship process a success not only for herself but everyone
The HFMA Northern Branch would like to invite you to attend the 2024 annual conference.
The session is designed to cover the overarching principles of VAT and how VAT works within the NHS.
This forum will bring together finance professionals working in the mental health sector
An introduction to NHS income is a short course for those who are keen to understand the role of NHS income within NHS finance.
This half-day online forum brought together the finance functions from across the four nations.
Robotic process automation has been talked about a lot, but are trust finance departments actually using it to streamline their routine tasks?
This course has been designed to provide an update on current employment tax issues, which will help employers to understand and mitigate their risk
This event was for senior NHS finance and healthcare professionals and provided delegates with the know-how to begin applying value in practice.
The Introduction to NHS Finance event is designed to give a basic grasp of how the NHS works and how it’s financed
This webinar will set out the work the NAO undertook, the conclusions it reached and what these mean for the NHS.