It connects organisations and systems through sharing best practice and proposes changes to processes that compromise the strategic sustainability and agility of healthcare finance. The Forum harnesses expert volunteers, patient-level data, NHS innovations to support the delivery of better value health and care to the patient and taxpayer.
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Ideas are potential solutions to problems. Ideas have not yet been implemented and require research and development.
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Innovations are ideas which have been implemented, they continue to address a specific challenge and deliver better value to a team or organisation.
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The following update was given at the Finance Leadership Council in May 2022, this briefing provides a summary of what the Forum has been up to and what it will be working on moving forward.
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The Innovation Programme is being developed as a mechanism to collect, validate, and share NHS finance innovations.
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The online event showcased the peer reviewed and published innovations from the first two Cohorts of the Finance Innovation Forum’s Innovation Programme. The recording from the event will be available soon.
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This series is in response to the Becoming NHS Finance Conversation and seeks to improve the software skills of NHS Finance staff in order to shorten the gap of time currently spent on manual and repetitive tasks.
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The Finance Innovation Forum is setting up an automation network, its first project is working on the national returns to try to reduce the manual time it takes to complete. If you have skills in this area and want to be considered for selection in future projects then please complete this form and we will be in touch as these opportunities emerge.
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This briefing will evolve to contain many technologies as they emerge but starts out with two complex technologies which are not widely understood.
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