
The spring statement’s failure to increase benefits in line with inflation undermines calls to focus on population health
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Are costing practitioners’ concerns about overly complex costing guidance being heard?
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The aligned payment and incentive system will provide a single framework for secondary care financial flows, but the real test will be if it encourages system working
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In wide-ranging presentations at this year’s HFMA annual conference at the beginning of December, speakers kept returning to three issues: diversity, the increasing role of technology and how the finance function can reshape itself to keep adding value.
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Covid-19 has had a wide-ranging impact on the NHS. It has taken a devastating toll in terms of lives lost and has stressed the service’s capacity and emergency preparedness to an unprecedented extent. But the timing of the outbreak also has repercussions for the national programme to introduce patient-level costing across all NHS providers in England.
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There was a very definite focus on the future at the HFMA annual conference in London at the beginning of December as delegates thought through what will be needed to deliver sustainable services over the next decade and beyond.
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Pension flexibilities should not be restricted to clinicians
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