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HFMA 2020: diversity and technology take centre stage

by Steve Brown

17 December 2020

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.

Costing's difficult year

by Steve Brown

11 June 2020

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.

System by default

by Steve Brown

06 February 2020

New planning guidance confirms system first approach

HFMA 2019: Finance function starts to map out future role

by Steve Brown

12 December 2019

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.

Pension equity

by Steve Brown

02 October 2019

Pension flexibilities should not be restricted to clinicians

Steps towards system oversight

by Steve Brown

30 August 2019

New framework makes small moves towards system-level regulation

Valued role

by Steve Brown

24 May 2019

Finance staff will continue to be central to the delivery of value-based healthcare

Getting engaged

by Steve Brown

02 May 2019

Clinical collaboration remains the key to using costing data to drive improvement

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Exploring how patient-level cost and activity data can inform pathway redesign in mental health

19 October 2021

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Financial reporting watching brief 2021/22 and beyond (October 2021 update)

13 October 2021

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Covid-19 reader: 22 October

22 October 2021

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Providers will map to single system for financial control

21 October 2021

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