Blogs

VM AWARDS 2020 SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED!

| 6 years ago
FFF, Making NHS Finance a Great Place to Work, Networking and sharing good ideas

Thank you to everyone for submitting such fantastic nominations for this year’s annual Value Maker Awards! We are excited to announce the shortlisted nominees for...


Read More

My career break experience

| 6 years ago
FFF, Promoting NHS Finance Careers

I want to share my experience regarding my career break. My day job in the UK is as a senior finance manager for NECS. I generally...


Read More

Sharing my story as a profoundly deaf person

| 6 years ago
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, NFA

Toni Trendall, a Senior Financial Accountant at NHS South, Central and West CSU was asked to share her story as a partially deaf person who became profoundly deaf, as part...


Read More

Virtual Induction & Training during COVID-19 – Natalie Hooper

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

To think that back in March 2020 we were all so excited to be welcoming our new recruits to the team, little did we know...


Read More

Starting a new role during the pandemic – Sarah Millward’s experience

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

Timeline 16th March – First Day 24th March – CM spoke to Sarah and advised her to go home and wait for a phone call...


Read More

Virtual Trust Induction and Training – Robyn Gillgannon – Mersey Care NHS FT

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

One thing that scared me about starting my role in a virtual way was the training aspect, I had never used a finance system before...


Read More

Starting a new role during the pandemic – Amy Denning

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

My name is Amy Denning and I am the Senior Finance Manager for Central and Corporate Services at Airedale NHS Trust. I joined the finance...


Read More

Gloucester Hospitals NHS FT – Buddying Scheme

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

Like many other NHS departments across the country, finance and procurement staff at Gloucestershire Hospitals were told to work from home from 23rd March 2020;...


Read More

Redeployment to the RotAhub Team – Stephanie Sinnott’s Experience

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

During the lockdown period in Mar 2020, my trust, Alder Hey, were asking for volunteers to assist the clinical ward staff; with refilling stock cupboards...


Read More

All in this together #DoingOurBit

| 6 years ago
FFF, Networking and sharing good ideas, Supporting our staff

Several staff from the finance team at Harrogate and District NHS FT offered their support to the PPE team during the pandemic, and at the...


Read More