August 2024 One NHS Finance Team Updates
Welcome to the August One NHS Finance blog. Here you will find all the highlights of our programmes and networks over that last month and discover all the opportunities and everything else coming up in the month ahead.
Important Upcoming Dates That You Should Know
Towards Excellence Accreditation – submission deadline August 31.
Value Maker Annual Awards nominations are now OPEN! Submit by September 24.
Networks
Last month 10 network meetings took place and interview panels for applicants of The Aspiring Deputies Programme, we also hosted Day 3 of Career Progressors for the South and North Cohorts.
4 network showcase sessions took place, if you would like to catch up on any of these, make sure to head over to our YouTube channel.
This month, we are pleased to launch a brand-new Being a FACE resource guide, read this guide to find out what it means to be a Finance and Clinical Educator.
We are also excited to announce that nominations for the 2024 Value Maker Awards are now open! Find out all the award categories and how to submit here, the awards will be presented at VMAC on November 7.
We recently confirmed a new Autumn training series for Sponsors who are on The Sponsorship Programme, webinars will run in September, October, and November, find out more details about the topics here and book on via our events page.
As PRIDE season comes to an end, find out what finance teams have been doing to celebrate the occasion in our latest blog post: Celebrating PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Programmes
Last month we held an EVO (Engagement, Value, Outcome) Q&A session, if you would like to watch the session, catch up here: https://youtu.be/D8FBen_PyaI?si=R0Y2SncK7ndDVG0x
Thank you to everyone who submitted innovations as part of Cohort 9 of the Innovation Programme, they are now undergoing peer review.
Our NHS Finance Thank You campaign is still going strong, watch all the latest NHS Finance Thank You video messages in our brand-new playlist. Send us your messages by tagging us on social media or by emailing us. #ThankYouThursday
We appreciate your participation in our NHS Finance Talent Management Impact Survey to help us evaluate the NHS Finance Talent Management Strategy. Your feedback is crucial in understanding how the strategy has been received and its impact on our finance community so far, it will take 5 minutes to complete – thank you!
We are delighted to announce that our NHS Finance Insights Placement Scheme has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Leadership of the Year category in the Social Mobility Awards 2024! Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible, wish us luck!
That’s a wrap for this month, we have lots of events coming up in September and please download our monthly presentation slides below, thank you for reading.