HfMA

Features

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  From FCT to FT

  Ten of the 17 financially challenged trusts have agreed solutions to their problems. Seamus Ward speaks to three now former FCTs about how they did it and how they now aim to become foundation trusts

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  The Third Way

  Nigel Davies sets out how NHS commissioners can get involved in influencing the form and content of charity reports and accounts

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  Board Games

  NHS graduate trainees are getting an early appreciation of the importance of finance to all aspects of running the health service. Seamus Ward listens in

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  ESR: What Next?

  Core implementation of the Electronic Staff Record in England and Wales was a key milestone. But it only marks the end of the first stage as organisations learn to exploit the system’s benefits fully. ESR’s Maureen Edwards reports

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  PBR for ambulance services - briefing

  The case for introducing payment by results for the ambulance sector is set out in a new briefing from the HFMA. As part of a series of briefings that contribute to the debate on NHS finance, PBR for ambulance services examines the arguments for expanding the existing payment by results system to the ambulance sector.

  ADDED 07/11/2008
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  Time Trial

  Closing of in-year and year-end accounts is not about meeting some arbitrary deadline but about improving the quality of financial reporting. The Audit Commission’s Andy McKeon explains the rationale and offers advice on meeting the new deadlines

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  The right links

  Service line management can move beyond improving financial erformance and help to link the quality and finance agendas. Seamus Ward reports

  ADDED 07/11/2008

  
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  Commission Impossible?

  PCTs have been set the challenge of transforming commissioning. Steve Brown talks to one PCT finance director about what commissioners can do to achieve world class status 

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  A Good Result

  NHS trusts and primary care trusts have returned their best financial performance yet, as measured by the Auditors’ Local Evaluation results for 2007/08. The Audit Commission’s Andy McKeon provides the expert commentary.

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  US presidential campaign 2008: healthcare reform revisited

  As the US election cycle enters its final phase, discussions of healthcare reform are again claiming a significant place in the campaigns of the two leading presidential candidates. Gail Wilensky assesses what a new resident at the White House will mean for US healthcare

  ADDED 06/10/2008