Financial regime and performance
Helping finance staff and others to understand the NHS financial regime, including financial settlements, how funds are allocated down to systems or health boards and the payment systems used to remunerate providers of healthcare services.
Policy and guidance
A comprehensive guide of how the NHS finance regime works, as well as the wider landscape in which it operates.
A tool promoting best practice in the efficient and effective use of resources to deliver high-quality sustainable healthcare.
Our detailed directory of all the resources the HFMA has on offer.
The HFMA sets out its views on the current NHS pressures and what needs to happen now.
The HFMA has updated the mental health map which brings together key national guidance and useful resources to support NHS finance professionals.
The HFMA annual awards recognise best practice in financial reporting, financial management and governance.
News and analysis
It is the season to be…wading through the planning guidance and developing robust financial plans. Keith Wood presents a wishlist for a better process
NHS representative bodies decried the chancellor’s autumn statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ with tax cuts paid for by a squeeze on public services.
Three quarters of NHS trust leaders expect to end 2023/24 in a worse financial position than last year, according to a survey by NHS Providers.
Welsh health boards will receive £460m of additional allocations this year to meet financial pressures, but still need to make significant savings.
Systems in England will receive an £800m boost this year to support the costs of strikes, but will be expected to live within revised allocations.
Health boards still face difficult decisions to balance budgets this year, despite the Welsh government providing an extra £425m in budget update.
NHS systems in England are overspent by more than £1bn just five months into the financial year, driven by the costs of industrial action.
Local health boards in Wales will need to reduce this year’s planned deficits and have been warned against submitting deficit budgets for 2024/25.
Report calls for a mental health investment standard specifically for capital.
NHS leaders have welcomed the investment of an extra £200m for the NHS to help with winter pressures.
Department of Health and Social Care aims to have Hospital 2.0 standardised design package available by May next year.
The sheer scale of the challenge facing NHS leaders currently is intimidating – and that includes an incredibly difficult financial position.
NHS trust leaders have highlighted a growing burden of regulation and raised concerns about integrated care boards’ role in performance management.
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the government is accepting the recommendations of independent pay review bodies for a pay increase.
Around one third of integrated care systems are forecasting a combined deficit of £650m in 2023/24, NHS chief financial officer Julian Kelly told the
Systems are sitting on significant levels of financial risk, says Lee Bond.
The NHS pay dispute reached a partial resolution in May, with most unions representing staff covered by the agenda for change pay framework.
Healthcare Finance September 2022
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Events
This event was for those that would benefit from an overview of costing in the NHS or those new to costing.
A delegate-led day tackling specific technical costing challenges and discussing some of the practicalities of implementing the costing standards.
A discussion of common priorities, challenges and successes within their field
This event is for senior NHS finance and healthcare professionals and will provide delegates with the know-how to begin applying value in practice.
The annual costing conference provided the NHS with the latest developments and guidance in NHS costing.
Discussion of technical challenges and skill-based competencies in a delegate led and discussion based environment.
This webinar explores how allocative value can identify the most effective ways for ICSs to use their resources.
In this short webinar, Dr Kieran Walsh outlined how BMJ Best Practice can improve patient care and ensure patient safety and therefore reduce costs.
September 2023
This event was for those that would benefit from an overview of costing in the NHS or those new to costing.
The symposium attracts senior decision-makers interested in making value-based healthcare a reality, and welcomes international delegates.
In this first round-table webinar we will shed light on the critical issues facing the healthcare sector
This forum is designed as an update on NHS finance current priorities covering the roles of NHS chairs and non-executive directors.
Strategic Finance in NHS England
This event focused primarily on the use of costing information and the importance of working with others to turn data into business intelligence.
This session is designed to support employees to understand how their company benefits could be used to help improve their financial wellbeing.
HFMA Wales and South West branches invite you to participate at the Planning for Productivity webinar, in partnership with the HPMA.
This event is for those that will benefit from an overview of costing in the NHS or those new to costing.
The Introduction to NHS Finance event is designed to give a basic grasp of how the NHS works and how it’s financed