Two hospitals that were being built under private finance schemes until the collapse of Carillion will be completed late and with higher costs, according to the National Audit Office.
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Blended payments will become the default reimbursement model for outpatient attendances in 2020/21, but local areas will be able to choose between blended payments and the pathway system for maternity services, NHS England and NHS Improvement have announced.
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With Boris Johnson returned to office with a large majority, NHS staff will be wondering what it means for the service.
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Over recent years, when a trust broke even it seemed like a time for celebration. But breaking even at one trust – bringing it out of financial special measures in the process – and, in the same year, delivering the biggest surplus recorded at another trust must surely be acknowledged nationally.
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Having joined Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust in July 2018, new deputy director of finance Eva Horgan – and the 2019 HFMA Deputy Finance Director of the Year – had an immediate impact with a restructuring of the finance team.
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Three bodies have been awarded this year’s HFMA Governance Award for a joint submission based on a shared governance framework that better supports the achievement of savings across the system.
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This year’s Value and Innovation Award went to a programme that has strong clinical-financial engagement and delivers better services to patients as well as savings.
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Apprenticeships for NHS finance and the service in general are a new way of training the next generation of staff. But with many NHS employers required to pay the apprenticeship levy, they must make best use of the funding available. Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust acknowledged this had to be done – a decision that led to it winning the HFMA Havelock Training Award 2019.
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This year’s costing winner, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, is helping to lead the way in applying patient-level costing to community services. It is one of only three trusts nationally to submit patient-level costs for community services as part of a voluntary submission and has helped to shape national community costing standards. This puts the trust ahead of the game, with a mandatory submission of patient-level costs for all community service providers not expected until 2021.
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This year’s Finance Team of the Year is the finance team for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Partnership of Clinical Commissioning Groups. Four CCGs – Fareham and Gosport; North Hampshire; North East Hampshire and Farnham; and South Eastern Hampshire – established a partnership in April 2017 to improve effectiveness and reduce duplication. They were joined a year later by the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group.
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Publications
Increasing clinical engagement in costing
08 January 2020
Briefing
Using PLICS to drive value in mental health services
08 January 2020
Briefing