Health inequalities and prevention
Providing support to finance staff as they help their organisations and systems to reduce health inequalities and prevent ill health.
HFMA Awards 2024
Nominations for the addressing health inequalities through NHS finance action award category are open until Friday 27 September.
Policy and guidance
This briefing explores how NHS finance staff can contribute to commissioning approaches which help reduce health inequalities.
This case study explores how Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland CCGs aligned primary care funding with population need.
This map provides a quick reference guide to key guidance documents, national statistics and data focusing on specific areas of health inequality.
A case study on the Bolton quality contract that looks at how it incentivises organisations to improve health inequalities.
This briefing explores how the NHS uses financial incentives to encourage organisations to tackle health inequalities.
This supplement showcases the 2023 winners and those shortlisted for awards. The winners were announced during the HFMA annual conference in December.
All investment decisions in the NHS have an impact on health inequalities. How can business cases help us consider the impact?
This briefing explores the work that finance teams are doing to help reduce health inequalities.
This briefing gives an overview of children and young people’s continuing care, picking up some of the terms that are commonly used.
News and analysis
The next UK government should give the NHS a greater role in preventing health problems, according to an analysis by the Health Foundation.
The provision of free personal care was announced this week as part of the Liberal Democrats’ pledge to end the social care crisis.
Promises to move care away from hospitals and into the community have not been matched by changes in funding for the different sectors.
The blog highlights the top 10 online HFMA session from across the 2023/24 event programme.
Some 700,000 more workers will be living with major illness by 2040, according to a report from the Health Foundation.
Mental illness in England is costing £300bn a year – almost twice the amount spent on the NHS, new research has claimed.
Just half of a sample of integrated care boards treated dedicated health inequalities funding as ringfenced in 2022/23.
ICB chief finance officer Paul Brown took part in an HFMA study tour to Australia to get a new perspective on joining up services.
A new programme aims to understand the finance role in tackling health inequalities and share ideas and good practice.
A £200m government plan to recover NHS dental services has been welcomed as a step in the right direction, but criticised for not going far enough.
Hardev Virdee, group chief finance officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, has been named the 2023 HFMA Finance Director of the Year.
Health systems should address health inequalities as the best way of dealing with current operational and financial pressures.
Upcoming events
Jason Helgeson will share learnings from the development of the Integrated Care System in New York.
In this one hour lunch and learn session you will hear from the South Central Branch winners of the Diversity & Inclusion Award.
Sarah will showcase some of the work done after winning this prestigious award relating to EDI
The HFMA South Central Branch would like to invite you to attend the 2024 annual conference!
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.
This event will provide support to finance staff as they help their organisations and systems to reduce health inequalities
On-demand events
This forum will bring together finance professionals working in the mental health sector
The session aims to explore practical steps to make prevention work, ensuring its integration and efficacy in the healthcare system.
Play games, have fun and build each other’s confidence, come and have a laugh with your colleagues for an hour.
Join Time Management expert Iain Smith for his Lunch and Learn webinar, 'Mastering Time Management'
This series showcase initiatives undertaken by finance teams to advance population health and wellbeing throughout integrated care systems.
Join our exclusive webinar and explore the potential of HFMA qualifications to elevate your career.
This forum is designed as an update on NHS finance current priorities covering the roles of NHS chairs and non-executive directors.
In this short webinar, Dr Kieran Walsh outlined how BMJ Best Practice can improve patient care and ensure patient safety and therefore reduce costs.
Looking at avoidable differences in people’s health across the population and between specific population groups, as well as preventative measures
We look at how managers working in general practice are adapting to make provisions for one of the biggest vaccination programmes in history.