We need to do more than make progress on equality and diversity
Ethical responsibility is at the heart of the accountant's role and integral to governance and accountability in the NHS. A new HFMA briefing reminds finance staff and other stakeholders of these responsibilities.
Health economies are showing increasing interest in using wholly-owned subsidiaries to deliver services such as estates and facilities management and outpatient pharmacy. But this takes some finance teams outside their comfort zones.
The NHS in England must address quickly its performance against targets to prevent the suffering for thousands of patients, according to the NHS Confederation.
There has been some major progress in recent years with NHS costing as the service moves towards using a common approach to costing at the patient level. But there is still a huge amount to be done to realise costing’s full potential.
Clinical commissioning groups are likely to end the financial year with an aggregate overspend of between £300m and £400m, according to NHS England board papers.
Integrating care is the right response to the NHS’s challenges, but we also need evidenced approaches that assure operational efficiency, reduce waste and drive continuous improvement in safety and quality.
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced the first allocation of additional capital funding that was unveiled in November’s Budget.
A deal giving Agenda for Change staff pay rises of between 6.5% and 29% over three years has been agreed between the unions and ministers, who have moved to boost the service’s ability to attract and retain staff
Almost two-thirds of commissioner and provider finance directors believe the quality of patient care had deteriorated in the last year, according to the King’s Fund Quarterly monitoring report.
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