HFMA

We have an exciting announcement!

One of our most popular publications, the HFMA introductory guide to NHS finance, is back… and it's free!

The guide is a comprehensive guide of how the NHS finance regime works, as well as the wider landscape in which it operates. It is a vital resource for anyone working within or alongside the NHS finance function and is of use to anyone who wants to get the maximum value from NHS resources.

Access the guide for free here: https://okt.to/L3eIsP

The programme is now available for May's Delivering Value with Digital Technology event.

This completely free event, hosted with the Federation for Informatics Professionals and the Royal College of Physicians, will bring together clinicians, finance staff and informatics professionals to consider how digital technologies can transform services and drive value and efficiency.

Sign up here: https://okt.to/RtdoKD

Digital technologies are increasingly being recognised as part of the solution to addressing some of the major challenges the NHS faces, but without a clear understanding of the problem at the outset, there is a danger that poor investment decisions will be made, and the benefits of digital technologies not realised.

This new HFMA briefing helps identify and realise benefits for : https://okt.to/fUNgxA

NHS finance teams have a role to play in creating the right environment for innovation, but changes in the national framework & processes would help too.

Read the blog from Terry Whittle, finance director at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, about how a bolder response is needed to innovation https://okt.to/c6zSWY

Bookings for the HFMA summer conference 2022 are now open! The 3-day hybrid event will bring together finance teams for a chance to gain valuable CPD, hear the latest on national policy and learn alongside peers via interactive workshops. Book before 13 May for an early booker discount: https://okt.to/jNClKR

Line up, line up… bookings for are now open.

Similar to 2021, the event will be running as a hybrid event, with early booker discounts available on all packages. Don't delay, secure your place at the NHS finance event of the year!

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At , we welcomed Owen Harkin as HFMA president 2021/22. Only the fifth HFMA president a devolved nation, and only the second from Northern Ireland Owen's theme is 'reimagining the future'.

In this video he talks about what this theme means and what he is most looking forward to about being HFMA president: https://okt.to/Se9BVU

The delayed introduction of integrated care boards will create accounting challenges. Early identification of the issues and sharing solutions will be the key to a smooth process, says Debbie Paterson in a new HFMA blog: https://okt.to/dD73tl

As Patrick Mitchell, director of innovation and transformation at Health Education England, says, the NHS finance community have the potential and the responsibility to be catalysts for driving forward digital technology deployment.

Whether it be supporting with business cases or the governance, or encouraging clinicians that innovations actually can be implemented and supporting them to make it happen, finance professionals are often the key: https://okt.to/dp8WEV

How can finance staff support the implementation of digital technology? Patrick Mitchell, director of innovation, digital and transformation at Health Education England, talks about the key role of NHS finance professionals in dr...

Are you a finance professional in Agenda for Change bands 2 to 6? Good news, you are now eligible for FREE membership of the HFMA!

As a HFMA member, you can receive exclusive benefits including:
- Healthcare Finance magazine online subscription
- Weekly healthcare finance news and blogs, publications, and event updates
- Access to all technical publications and resources
- Access to local HFMA branch networks and national committees
- Discounted access to HFMA events

Find out more and join the professional body for healthcare finance here: https://okt.to/TEBhpA

Following on from the announcement that from now HFMA membership will be free to NHS finance staff within bands 2-6, Mark Knight, HFMA chief executive, has written a blog discussing the change and what members can expect from the association now and in the future. Read it here: https://okt.to/8sio3J