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Seeing behind the Budget headlines

by Emma Knowles

28 October 2021

For the NHS, the autumn Budget and spending review held few surprises, with spending announcements trailed in the days leading up to the speech. But, as ever, the detail is important. As are the omissions.

Clarity needed on ICS governance

by Emma Knowles

23 April 2021

Integrated care is not delivered by boards. It happens around the patient and at service level. But governance structures are important in creating the right environment in which integrated care can be provided. And it may be an obvious point, but a new focus on population health will only work if there is enough funding for health and social care.

Targeting sustainable external audit

by Emma Knowles

02 March 2021

A solution is needed to address continuing worries about a broken external audit model in the NHS. But there are steps NHS bodies and auditors can take in the meantime.

What to do about external audit in the NHS?

by Emma Knowles

28 October 2020

All is not well in the world of local public sector audit. Those NHS organisations that have not tried to appoint new external auditors recently may be blissfully unaware of the issues that are unfolding and which look likely to get worse before they get better.

An opportunity to reset the financial regime

by Emma Knowles

24 June 2020

The NHS has already made fundamental changes to the way it delivers services in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. These have not only been in frontline care – for example increasing capacity, establishing patient pathways and the rapid introduction of virtual consultations – but in various financing and governance arrangements that underpin the service. There is now a chance to establish a new financial regime that builds on these arrangements and helps the NHS meet its future objectives.

Responding to Covid-19

by Emma Knowles

20 March 2020

NHS finance staff have a major role in supporting the frontline clinical response to the coronavirus outbreak

Finance has its say on pension plan

by Emma Knowles

08 November 2019

Finance practitioners call for different approach to pension tax problem

Voyage of discovery

by Emma Knowles

17 July 2019

NHS finance has a diversity problem in higher paid roles, but it is on a journey of improvement

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Using virtual reality to improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation

17 May 2022

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NHS environmental sustainability guidance map - May 2022

13 May 2022

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Extra £1.5bn to cover inflationary pressures

19 May 2022

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Recovery risk to NHS training

19 May 2022

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