One NHS Finance (ONF), the national conversations with health service finance staff on the development of the function, will be taken forward under three programmes – Future-Focused Finance, the new National Finance Academy and Finance Innovation Forum.
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The NHS in England has extended the contract for the integrated single finance environment (ISFE) by three years while it brings forward plans for a new integrated finance system.
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The challenge facing the NHS in recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic was underlined this week with the latest figures on the size of the backlog of postponed care. And costing figures have revealed the virus’s significant impact on NHS productivity.
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Government proposals to reform social care must address the need for change in the social care market, as well as how it is funded, or the sector will collapse, the Nuffield Trust claimed.
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Plans for more frequent national cost collections could involve just a sample of providers submitting costs or be based on much lighter touch costing standards, NHS England and NHS Improvement have revealed.
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NHS England and NHS Improvement are encouraging acute trusts to re-engage with their Exceptional Quarterly Collection (EQC) and hoping to expand the costing programme to cover mental health services.
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England this week stood on the verge of further relaxations in social distancing measures, although modelling points to a third wave of Covid-19 over the summer. Meanwhile the government announced a ‘course correction’ for its vaccination programme.
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Last week marked not only the beginning of the new financial year, but also the latest stage in the demise of clinical commissioning groups, with a new wave of mergers reducing their number to just over 100 and all their successor bodies established.
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This week’s initial easing of lockdown measures was accompanied with further encouraging news about vaccine effectiveness, although blood clot concerns re-emerged. And there were continued warnings to keep observing the remaining social distancing and protective measures.
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NHS trusts and foundation trusts will have to submit patient-level costs for community services next year after NHS England and NHS Improvement decided to mandate the collection.
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