HfMA

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  Does NHS finance pack a punch?

  Given the current turmoil in the private sector, the NHS looks to be setting an excellent standard for financial performance. But Piers Ricketts suggests the different contexts require more detailed analysis

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  Changing times

  HFMA chief executive Mark Knight reflects on a successful year for the association and looks forward to 2009

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  Moving beyond competition

  Far from a mere euphemism for competition, contestability aims to use the threat of competition to stimulate efficiencies, as David Parkin explains

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  Le Crunch

  Finance managers will need all their skill to navigate the credit crunch and the unknown changes to tariff, allocations and MFF in 2009

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  PROMs season in the NHS

  Nancy Devlin believes that complex issues need to be resolved if patient reported outcome measures are to realise their potential for benchmarking providers’ performance

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  From Russia with love

  Undoubtedly one of the oddest assignments I have ever undertaken for HFMA was to join a trip to Russia along with chairman Chris Calkin and three other professional colleagues.  The trip was organised by HFMA US with the intention of analysing how far the Russian health system had modernised since the collapse of communism in 1991.

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  A case for top-ups

  There are legal, ethical and practical issues to be resolved, but the case for allowing top-ups still stacks up.

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  The right controls: macro v micro

  Government departments live within different controls to NHS bodies. Understanding their interaction – and tensions – is key to the financial system working as intended.

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
• Time will tell

  HFMA chairman Chris Calkin says managers will need to exhibit substantial leadership over a sustained period to implement Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review proposals

  ADDED 02/09/2008

  
• Health economics: Formula funding verdict

  Matthew Sutton, professor of health economics at Manchester University, examines how effective formula funding has been in its aim of reducing inequalities

  ADDED 02/09/2008