Magazine / Healthcare Finance September 2022

With the health service moving on from the pandemic, NHS Supply Chain is looking at how it can mitigate rising costs and support cost improvements.

One trust's patient-level cost based value programme is gaining increasing clinical support

Standardised finance systems could improve the quality of financial reporting across the NHS.

A recent HFMA study tour to the Netherlands discovered some approaches that could have some application in the NHS.

Virtual wards are seen as one way of supporting NHS recovery and plans are being developed across the UK.

The HFMA’s strategy for 2022 to 2025 is a bold, ambitious vision for the association over the next three years.

NHS England remains committed to linking provider payments to quality, but recognises that the current mechanisms need further work.

Seamus Ward assesses the past two months in healthcare finance

Workforce remains a major challenge as the NHS looks to reduce waiting lists

With winter approaching, the government’s new leadership team has urgent decisions to take on health and social care

The Financial Reporting Advisory Board (FRAB) two-day meeting in June included two agenda items of interest to NHS bodies.

Feedback on charities' annual return changes, health spending on Covid-19, unbundled services costing change, and the updated oversight framework.

A round-up of recent job moves