Blogs

Introducing the Finance Innovation Forum by Jenny Ehrhardt

| 5 years ago
FFF, FIF, Making NHS Finance a Great Place to Work

I am delighted to have been appointed to chair the Finance Innovation Forum and am also pleased to be working with Mark Orchard, Chief Financial...


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Introducing the National Finance Academy by Hardev Virdee

| 5 years ago
FFF, Making NHS Finance a Great Place to Work, NFA

I am delighted to have been asked to Chair the new National Finance Academy (NFA) which we are developing as part of the feedback from...


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Costing presentation

| 5 years ago
Data and Engagement, FIF

Value Maker, Rikki Siddle, presented a Staff Costing Model as part of our Best Practice Market Stalls. Download the presentation and the excel template to...


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Celebrating Success – the East of England Nominees and Award Winners

| 5 years ago
FFF, Making NHS Finance a Great Place to Work, Networking and sharing good ideas

As part of the HFMA, SDN and FFF joint conference that took place in February 2021, the first Eastern Branch awards were launched.  The standard...


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Working from home with Kanban Boards

| 5 years ago
FFF, Supporting our staff

What is a Kanban board? A Kanban board is one of the tools that can be used to implement Kanban (a lean method to manage...


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Flexi Timesheet 21/22

| 5 years ago
Data and Engagement, FIF, Innovation and Improvement

Edit: 29/03/2021 @ 14:20 Updated timesheet to reflect fix required to work within Excel 365 — Attached is a Flexi Timesheet you can use for...


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Becoming a Rainbow Department

| 5 years ago
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, NFA

To celebrate LGBT History Month in February, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Finance Department led the way by becoming a Rainbow Badge Department!...


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My apprenticeship path

| 2 Comment(s) | 6 years ago
FFF, Promoting NHS Finance Careers

I had seen the apprenticeship programme advertised and because of my age I didn’t think I would be eligible. During my appraisal I asked my...


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CPD made easy

| 4 Comment(s) | 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas

In the past recording Continued Professional Development (CPD) has been seen as a very time consuming and tedious exercise, normally with one member of the...


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Budget Setting – Excel Best Practice

| 6 years ago
FIF, Innovation and Improvement

The budget setting solution at Alder Hey has been developed over a number of years, steadily being improved to make the whole process easier and...


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