Financial regime and performance
Helping finance staff and others to understand the NHS financial regime, including financial settlements, how funds are allocated down to systems or health boards and the payment systems used to remunerate providers of healthcare services.
Policy and guidance
Our detailed directory of all the resources the HFMA has on offer.
A tool promoting best practice in the efficient and effective use of resources to deliver high-quality sustainable healthcare.
This briefing pulls out key points from all documents within the 2024/25 operational planning and contracting guidance pack.
The HFMA has responded to NHS England's consultation on the role of incentives in general practice
An overview of the commissioning of secondary & tertiary healthcare from NHS providers under the NHS payment scheme & NHS standard contract.
A comprehensive guide of how the NHS finance regime works, as well as the wider landscape in which it operates.
The HFMA has responded to the consultation on the changes to the NHS standard contract for 2024/25
The HFMA has responded to the consultation on the 2024/25 NHS payment scheme.
The HFMA sets out its views on the current NHS pressures and what needs to happen now.
The HFMA has responded to the consultation on the 2023/25 NHS payment scheme.
The HFMA has updated the mental health map which brings together key national guidance and useful resources to support NHS finance professionals.
The HFMA annual awards recognise best practice in financial reporting, financial management and governance.
News and analysis
The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed a Budget for 2024/25 with no department receiving the level of funding it bid for.
Hospice leaders have called for a new palliative care funding model that includes more government funding to support their core costs.
Service targets in the planning guidance appear at odds with the available funding.
With just two months of the financial year to go, NHS systems were on course for a £1.1bn overspend for 2023/24, NHS England revealed last week.
Prices paid to providers for elective activity in 2024/25 will increase by 0.6% to account for inflation and improved efficiency.
The 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance, published by NHS England, has demanded improved A&E waiting times.
A new independent body should be set up to monitor NHS performance and to inform the setting of NHS budgets for the medium and long term.
The government has insisted it is committed to dental contract reform in an attempt to make NHS work more attractive to dentists.
Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, when adjusted for population size and ageing, the NHS England budget will have decreased by 1.6% per year in real terms.
A capital incentive scheme that aims to boost A&E performance has been labelled as divisive by healthcare leaders.
Health services across the UK face the same operational and financial pressures. How are finance leaders in Wales meeting the challenges?
Hywel Dda University Health Board is having to face up to taking difficult decisions to support sustainable improvements.
As a commissioned service and provider body, Velindre University NHS Trust feels pressures slightly differently to the health boards.
Finance directors have issued a plea for greater realism in the expectations placed on the service along with greater flexibility to spend resources.
The savings identified in the three-year financial plans submitted by Scottish health boards in 2023/24 will not be sufficient for them to break even.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget held two big announcements for the NHS.
Developments in the world of healthcare in the past three months.
The NHS Confederation has proposed three payment models that could change financial incentives and unlock local service reform.
Leaders of many the UK’s health think tanks and representative bodies have offered their assessments of this week’s spring Budget.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced £2.45bn of extra funding for the NHS in England in 2024/25 in his spring Budget.
Events
The day covered why we cost and the costing process, and was for those that would benefit from an overview of costing or those new to costing.
This was a delegate-led day tackling specific technical costing challenges.
The value masterclass shared examples of organisations and systems that have pursued a value-driven approach and the results they have achieved.
This conference provided a unique learning and networking opportunity for NHS Chairs
This was a must-attend conference for those looking for support to meet costing requirements.
During this webinar, delegates had the opportunity to contribute their ideas and help shape the future for costing.
The day covered why we cost and the costing process.
This event was for those that would benefit from an overview of costing in the NHS or those new to costing.
A delegate-led day tackling specific technical costing challenges and discussing some of the practicalities of implementing the costing standards.
A discussion of common priorities, challenges and successes within their field
This event is for senior NHS finance and healthcare professionals and will provide delegates with the know-how to begin applying value in practice.
The annual costing conference provided the NHS with the latest developments and guidance in NHS costing.
Discussion of technical challenges and skill-based competencies in a delegate led and discussion based environment.
This webinar explores how allocative value can identify the most effective ways for ICSs to use their resources.
In this short webinar, Dr Kieran Walsh outlined how BMJ Best Practice can improve patient care and ensure patient safety and therefore reduce costs.
September 2023
This event was for those that would benefit from an overview of costing in the NHS or those new to costing.
The symposium attracts senior decision-makers interested in making value-based healthcare a reality, and welcomes international delegates.
In this first round-table webinar we will shed light on the critical issues facing the healthcare sector