Value, costing, efficiency and productivity

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.

Guide to the production and use of cost data in the NHS and overview of the role of a costing practitioner.

This case study describes how the Sussex health system have approached this for their musculoskeletal services.

Our detailed directory of all the resources the HFMA has on offer.

This map brings together tools and resources that will be useful to finance teams supporting digital transformation within their own organisations.

Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service has been set up to enable people working across the health and social care network to access digital tools.

Improving quality in health care is about making it safe, effective, patient-centred, timely, efficient and equitable.

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.

This map provides a quick reference guide to key guidance documents, national statistics and data focusing on specific areas of health inequality. 

This case study describes Alder Hey’s model for innovation, identifying the key factors that make it a success.

To standardise the way the NHS team receive the requests, they have produced a template document to be used for future NSCRs.

This case study describes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system tracks medical assets.

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This case study describes how digital technology can improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation as a treatment for chronic lung conditions.

This case study describes how Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust uses PLICS to support their waste reduction and service improvement projects

This briefing focuses on identifying and realising benefits for digital transformation.

This briefing has been written to support costing practitioners understand how they can play a role in tackling health inequalities. 

This case study describes how research teams from two biomedical research centres in London have used natural language processing AI.

NHS representative bodies decried the chancellor’s autumn statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ with tax cuts paid for by a squeeze on public services.

NHS England head Amanda Pritchard this week defended levels of NHS productivity, arguing the current measure did not fully reflect improvement.

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.

Stephen Knibbs, director of Security Enhanced Services and Paul Hopkins, global head of cyber security strategy give their perspectives.

Welsh health boards will receive £460m of additional allocations this year to meet financial pressures, but still need to make significant savings.

NHS England has been asked to provide formal explanation of the fall in NHS productivity following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Health boards still face difficult decisions to balance budgets this year, despite the Welsh government providing an extra £425m in budget update.

NHS England has postponed the national cost collection submission window by five weeks following a technical issue with a new data validation engine.

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.

The financial element of the CQUIN quality incentive scheme looks set to be paused in 2024/25, under proposals from NHS England.

Robust, comparable costing data is not just a nice-to-have, but vital for short-term recovery and the long-term sustainability of services.

The sheer scale of the challenge facing NHS leaders currently is intimidating – and that includes an incredibly difficult financial position.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.

This item is a past event that has been migrated from the previous HFMA website.