Working with Finance – Clinician of the Year Award
In Association with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Clinicians’ primary role is to provide the best possible advice, treatment and care to patients. But they can only do this if the money available to the NHS is used well. Failure to do so results in less care and lower quality. Money will only be used well in the NHS if clinicians are fully engaged in managing it.
This award acknowledges the importance of clinical engagement in financial management and in particular recognises a clinician who has taken financial responsibility for their services, led efficiency or improvement programmes or provided an example for other clinicians by engaging with the financial management agenda.
Judging criteria:
- Redesigning patient pathways to deliver better services to patients alongside more effective use of resources
- Working with finance colleagues to refine the quality of costing or coding data, improving the business information for decision making
- Using programme budgeting information to encourage discussion about existing and future investment decisions across different programmes of care
- Working with finance colleagues to analyse service line information to identify potential areas for service improvement and efficiency and then acting upon that information to improve services and performance.
Winner
Philip Thomas - Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Short listed entries
Fiona Jackson - Barnet Community Services
Philip Thomas - Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Roger Tillman - The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS FT
Mahmood Adil - Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS FT
The Judges
Dr Susan Bews, Treasurer, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Mark Knight, Chief Executive, HFMA
Andy McKeon, Managing Director - Healthcare, Audit Commission
Chris Calkin, Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust