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Tag Archives: Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
Seven Day Working and Much More: Aiming for a More Patient-Centred, Transparent and Safe NHS (Department of Health)
Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has re-asserted his intention to pursue the New Deal for GPs, and seven day NHS services generally; if necessary by removing the weekend working opt-out in new hospital consultants’ contracts. NHS Improvement Plans for the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Northern Ireland, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Alzira (Spain), Apollo (India), BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Northern Ireland Health News, BBC Wales, Booking Appointments, British Medical Association, Care Seven Days a Week, Clinical Incident Investigations, Competition Based on Patient Choice, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Continuous Learning Culture, Crowd Effect (Crowd Psychology), Crowd Herding, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change in the NHS, Culture of Safety, DDRB Recommendation for Removal of Consultant Weekend Opt-Out, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Informatics: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Primary Care and Population Health: University College London, DevoManc, Digital Innovation, Digital Innovations in Health, Dr Dan Poulter (Former Conservative Health Minister), Dr Johann Malawana: Former Chair of BMA Junior Doctors Committee, Dr Mike Durkin: NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, Dr Mike Durkin: Patient Safety Investigation Service, Electronic Booking, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Extra Payments for Unsociable Working, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research: University College London, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Francis Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), Gary Caplin: Chief Executive of Virginia Mason Hospital (Seattle), Greater Manchester, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, Honesty and Transparency, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Independent National Officer, Independent National Officer (INO), Independent Patient Safety Investigation Service, Intelligent Transparency, International Buddying Programme, Junior Doctors Balloted on Seven Day Working Terms and Conditions, Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2015, Kaiser Permanente, Keogh Review, Learning Culture, Learning Not Blaming, Lord Rose Report into NHS Leadership, Lord Rose Report on Leadership in the NHS, Lord Rose Report: Better Leadership for Tomorrow, Martha Lane Fox, Mayo Clinic, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Monitor, Morecambe Bay Investigation Report, Mortality at the Weekend, Never Events, New Deal, New Deal for General Practice, New Deal for Primary Care, News Manipulation and Intransigence, NHS Culture, NHS England, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Leadership Academy Moved From NHS England to Health Education England, NHS National Information Board, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Pay Review Body, NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB), NHS Services Seven Days a Week, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), Nigel Edwards: Nuffield Trust, No Harm Culture, Open and Supportive Culture, Opt-Outs (Consultant Contracts), Oral Statement to Parliament: Improving Safety Culture in the NHS (July 2015), Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Choice, Patient Power 2.0, Patient Safety, Patient Safety in the NHS, Policy Issues Posed by Devolution, Procurement Patient Choice and Competition Regulations, Professional Standards, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Public Administration Select Committee Report into Clinical Incident Investigations, Public Administration Selection Committee, Quality and Outcomes Research Unit: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, QUORUM Metric for Comparing Hospital Death Rates, RCGP, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Morecambe Bay Investigation, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration, Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB), Royal College General Practice (RCGP), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Scottish Government, Service Redesign, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Resources, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Staff Shortages, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Unwillingness or Incapacity for Doing More With Less, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Workforce Overload, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problems Identified in Leaked Confidential Department of Health Review, Seven Day Services, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Simon Hamilton: Northern Ireland's Health Minister, Survivorship Models, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparency and Devolution, Transparent Learning Culture, University College London, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Unsociable Hours Payments, Virginia Mason Hospital: Seattle, Weekend Effect, Weekend Mortality Rates, Weekend Services, Weekend Working, Welsh Government
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Balancing Quality and Finance (NHS Confederation)
Summary This NHS Confederation briefing summarises a round table discussion about how NHS might achieve the best balance between the need to control or reduce costs and the aim of providing better care. This briefing was produced in partnership with … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS Alliance, NHS Confederation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Achieving Better Value, Balancing Quality and Finance, Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare, Best Value Duty, Better Value, Blame Culture, Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), Care Quality, Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Commissioning for Value, Cost–Benefit Analyses, Culture Change, Culture of Candour, Delivering Quality and Value, Disempowering Environments, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, End to Silo Working, Expensive Drugs, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding, Health Funding, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, High Quality Care for All, High Quality Commissioning, Holistic Quality Improvement, Honesty, Internal Distrust: Working Together, Kadcyla, Lack of Direction, Local Commissioning, Misaligned Funding Mechanisms, NHS Culture, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Leadership, NHS Quality, NHS: a Political Football, Openness and Transparency, Partnership and Collaboration, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Payment and Funding Systems, Political Candour, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Quality in the NHS, Quality Payments in the NHS, Quality: Outcomes, Reducing Spending on Expensive Drugs, Regulatory Barriers, Removing Regulatory Barriers, Resistance to Change, Shared System Leadership, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Social Care, System Leadership, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparency and Public Trust, Unresponsive Culture, Value Across Public Services, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Value Opportunities, Value Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Whole Service Approaches, Whole System Integration, Whole System Performance, Whole Systems Design, Working Together for Change
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Seven-Day Services Across the NHS (NHS England / HFMA / BBC News)
Summary NHS England’s National Medical Director, Sir Bruce Keogh, has made available more information about plans for seven day services across the NHS (based on findings from the Forum on NHS Services, Seven Days a Week) to be introduced over … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, 24/7 Care, 24/7 Consultant Cover, 24/7 Diagnostic Services, 24/7 Service, A&E Workforce, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Primary Care At Night and Weekend, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Unit Consultant Input, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Better Care Fund (BCF), Birmingham Collaborative, Care Seven Days a Week, CCG Collaborative Approaches, CCG Outcome Indicator Set (CCG OIS), Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Engagement, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Standards, Commissioner Engagement, Community Care, Compassionate Care, Consultant Input, Costing Seven Day Services, County Durham and Darlington Local Health Economy, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Deinde Adjuvare: Next Do Some Good, Diagnostics, Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley CCG and Health & Wellbeing Board, Efficiency Savings, Everyone Counts, Future Hospital Commission, Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Handover, Health Education England, Health Reform, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, High Intensity Specialist Led Acute Care (HiSLAC), HiSLAC, Improving Access to Diagnostics, Improving Access to Imaging Services, Incentives Rewards and Sanctions, Increasing Efficiency, James Paget Foundation Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medway Foundation Trusts, Metrics, Metrics and Information, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Moving With the Times, National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), NHS Chorley South Ribble and Greater Preston CCGs, NHS Diagnostic and Scientific Services, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS IQ Early Adopters, NHS Medway CCG, NHS Reform, NHS Reform in England, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Services, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Workforce, North East Lincolnshire Out of Hospital Providers, North West London CCG Collaborative, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Patient Experience, Patient Flows, Patient Safety, Payment by Results (PbR), Place in the Middle, Principles for Engagement, Provider Engagement, Quality Improvement, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Rota and Shift Planning, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Surgeons, Safe Staffing, Safe Staffing Levels, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Service Consolidation, Service Models, Seven Day Consultant Present Care, Seven Day Services Champions, Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Working, Shaping Healthier Future, Sharing Knowledge and Information, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSCT), Shift Handovers, Skill Mix, Smoother Patient Flows, South East Essex and Social Care, Staffing (Hospitals), Staffing Levels, Sweating the Assets, Transfer to Community Primary and Social Care, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Services, Using Assets Effectively, Weekend Effect, Weekend Working, Whole-System Approaches, Workforce and Organisational Development (OD), Wrightington, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
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Payment by Results: Payment Systems in the NHS (HFMA / Kings Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), and Monitor held a workshop for finance leaders to debate the NHS payments system. While the benefits of payment by results (PBR) are acknowledged, the system governing payments is said to … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, Quick Insights, UK
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Tagged Affordability, Ageing Population, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Best Practice Tariffs, Capitation, Chief Finance Officers (CFOs), Emergency Admissions, Financial Fragmentation in the NHS, Financial Incentives, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Fragmentation of Services and Commissioning, From Penalties Towards Collaboration, Funding and Admissions, Health Funding, Health: Financing, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, Incentives and Investment, Local Discretion and Experimentation, Local Discretion and Innovation, Long-Term Conditions, Marginal Rate Emergency Tariff, Monitor, National Tariff, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Payments System, NHS Tariffs, Outcomes-Based Contracts, Partial Coverage, Payment by Results (PbR), Payment for Outcomes Not Outputs, Payments to Incentivise Service Transformation, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Public Health Funding, Readmissions, Rules-Based Systems, Service Transformation, Tariff Income, Variations in Quality of Care, Whole-System Approaches
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HFMA and GPhC Responses to the Francis Report (HFMA)
Summary This briefing and policy statement from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is a response to the Francis Inquiry report. It proposes changes to the culture of the NHS finance profession, which came under some criticism in the inquiry, … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Practical Advice, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Best Use of Resources, CFOs, Chief Finance Officers (CFOs), Clinical Engagement in Financial Management, Commercial Acumen, Corporate Leadership and Management, Culture, Culture Change, Culture of Zero-Harm, Efficiency, Efficiency Savings, Finance, Finance Departments, Financial Constraints, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Pressures, Francis Inquiry, Francis Inquiry Report, Francis Report, General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA Response to the Francis Report, HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, Honesty, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Integrity, Leadership, Leadership and Culture, Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, NHS Chief Finance Officers, NHS Culture, NHS Finance Profession, NHS Finances, No Harm Culture, Objectivity, Openness and Transparency, Patient Care, Patient Safety, Positive Culture, Responses to the Francis Inquiry Report, Selflessness, Shaping Culture, Stewardship and Accountability, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Value for Money
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Developing a Payment Mechanism for Mental Health (HFMA)
Summary The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) mental health faculty has published a discussion paper on the development of mental health payment by results. The aim is to develop a reimbursement system, based upon need, which delivers and incentivises quality … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Mental Health, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Clinician Rated Outcome Measures (CROMs), Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, HFMA’s Mental Health Faculty, Mental Health Clustering Tool / HoNOS Ratings, mental Health Payment by Results, Mental Health Services, National Mental Health PbR Programme Team, National Quality and Outcome Group, Patient Rated Experience Measures (PREMs), Patient Rated Outcome Measures (PROMs), Payment by Results (PbR), Payment Mechanisms, Payment Mechanisms for Mental Health, PROMs: Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Rebasing Contracts
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Francis Inquiry Report: Full Report (Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry)
Summary High mortality rates and poor standards of care provided at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust resulted in concern about services and management in the Trust. This three-volume Francis Inquiry report investigates the causes and lessons learned. “…[the widespread] disconnect between … Continue reading →