HfMA

Healthcare Finance

• 
  Don’t count on it

  At one time NHS reference costs were seen as useful, if complex, benchmarking information. But with the advent of service line reporting and patient level costing, have reference costs lost their value? Steve Brown reports

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  Mirror mirror

  Despite the financial assessments facing commissioners, Nottinghamshire County PCT was keen to hold a mirror up to its finance function. Steve Brown reports

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  Department sets out prompt payment code

  NHS chief executive David Nicholson has urged all health service organisations in England to sign up to a new prompt payment code that emphasises the need to stick to contract terms when paying small suppliers.

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  Best foot forward

  Our tour of PBR development sites stays with community services this month with a look at work to develop currencies and local tariffs for podiatry

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  The price is right

  Changes to the PPRS should lead not only to faster access to new medicines for patients, but also greater clinical and cost effectiveness, explains Jennifer Field

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  We want to hear from you

  THE HFMA IS a not a normal representative body. We’re not a professional institute in the traditional sense, nor are we a trade union or trade association.  Yet in the last five years we have entered all these territories to pursue our objectives and with considerable success. It seems we are unique and strong because of it.  Having travelled the length and breadth of the UK, the warmth towards us is considerable and the respect for what we do is high. Our achievements are there for all to see. 

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  The new reality

  High-quality costing data and a systems approach to achieving efficiency need to be priorities for NHS finance managers

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• Back on the agenda

  April’s OEP report has suggested a more prominent role for back office indicators developed jointly by UK audit agencies, as Jim Lakie explains

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• 
  Time has come for finance heroes

  What contribution should finance leaders make to the significant cost reduction and productivity gains that the NHS will require over the next spending review period?

  ADDED 29/05/2009

  
• MPs fear for drugs affordability

  A scheme to increase access to expensive medicines could become unaffordable as pharmaceutical companies target new drugs on small groups of patients with rare diseases, MPs have warned.

  ADDED 29/05/2009