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Tag Archives: HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association
Further Confirmation of the “Weekend Effect”: The Global Comparators Project (BMJ Quality and Safety / BBC News / OHE / Health Economics / BMJ)
Summary Recent research indicates that the “weekend effect” is a systematic phenomenon in the quality of healthcare, which impacts upon mortality rates in hospital care internationally. 2,982,570 hospital records from 28 hospitals in England, Australia, the USA and the Netherlands … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7 Day Services, ACALM Study Unit: Aston Medical School, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Aston Medical School: Aston University, Aston University, Australia, Avoidable Mortality, BBC Health News, BMJ, BMJ Quality and Safety, British Medical Journal (BMJ), CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Costs and Benefits of Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Health Sciences: University of York, Department of Informatics: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Primary Care and Population Health: University College London, Dr Fiona Godlee: Editor of the British Medical Journal, Dr Foster, Dr Foster Hospital Guide, Dr Foster Intelligence, Dr Foster Unit: Imperial College London, Dr Foster Unit: PCPH Imperial College London, Economics of Elevated Hospital Mortality at Weekends, Elective Procedures, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, England, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research: University College London, GC Database, Global Comparators (GC) Project, Global Comparators Project, Health Economics, Health Finance Managers Association (HFMA), Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Quality Improvement, HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, High-Intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) Project, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Improving Patient Safety, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), Manchester Centre for Health Economics: University of Manchester, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS), Netherlands, NHS Culture, NHS England, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ) Seven Day Services Team, NHS Seven Days a Week Forum, Nigel Edwards: Nuffield Trust, NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands, NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Birmingham and the Black Country (NIHR CLAHRC-BBC), NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, Office of Health Economics (OHE), Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives, Patient Safety Improvement, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality and Outcomes Research Unit: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekends, QUORUM Metric for Comparing Hospital Death Rates, Seven Day Services Team: NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Survivorship Models, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) West Midlands, United States, University College London, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, University of Warwick, University of Warwick Medical School, University of York, Urgent and Emergency Care, USA, Variations in Quality of Care, Warwick Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery: University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School: University of Warwick, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working, Workforce Challenges in Emergency Medicine
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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
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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Glossary of NHS Finance and Governance Terms (HFMA)
Summary This briefing from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) covers commonly used terminology for commissioners and healthcare providers. Key areas of NHS finance and governance covered by this glossary include: Budgets. Commissioning. Costing. Contracts. Financial performance. Financial planning. Governance. … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Budgets, Contracts, Costing, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Glossary of NHS Finance and Governance, Glossary of NHS Finance and Governance Terms, Governance, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), Healthcare Providers, HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, NHS Finance and Governance Terms, Statutory Duties
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