Finance Director of the Year Award
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The Finance Director of the Year Award represents one of the most prestigious accolades available to Finance Directors in healthcare across the UK. The Award is for professional excellence in financial management and leadership and recognizes an individual’s contribution to their organisation and towards the improvement in health or healthcare locally or nationally in any of the four UK nations. It is intended to honour the outstanding contribution and effort made by Finance Directors towards the overall success of their organisations, the finance function or the positive contribution made to healthcare delivery in the UK.
NHS Boards or Chief Executives may make nominations. Nominations will also be considered from Strategic Health Authorities, HFMA Branches, Industry regulators or other bodies working with the healthcare finance community in the UK.
Entry Requirements:
A succinct account in not more than 1,000 words detailing how your nomination meets the criteria set out below. Supporting appendices may be submitted as part of this entry.
Judging Criteria:
The judges will be looking for evidence of substantial personal contribution in a number of areas.
- Significant financial achievement of the organisation
- Enterprise
- Integrity
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Strategic development of the organisation
- High quality of service (internally and/or externally)
The Judges
David Flory , Director General for NHS Finance, Department of Health
Mark Knight, HFMA Chief Executive
Jane Tomkinson, 2007 FD of the Year Winner
Jeff Buggle, Director of Finance, NHS Wales
Stephen Prince, Chief Executive, Public Sector Consultants
Closing date for nominations is Friday 26th September 2008. To download the 2008 Award Brochure, or to nominate click here