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Finance Innovation Programme
Submit an NHS Finance Innovation by 30 June for the next peer review, innovations will be published in August.
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In Conversation With… Jenny Ehrhardt
We are excited to confirm that we will be running a session with Jenny Ehrhardt, Chief Finance Officer and FIF Programme Chair, Manchester University NHS FT on May 2. Exclusively for The Finance Leaders Network.
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Innovation Development Board
Not sure if you’ve innovated? Got a problem or idea? The Board provides, manages, develops, scales and launches finance innovations for the benefit of the NHS.
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Innovation library
A mechanism to transparently collect, validate, and share NHS finance innovations.
Submissions to the programme are focused on the problems the innovations aim to overcome. By doing this, we will learn how organisations have innovated to address these problems and inspire other NHS Finance teams to tackle these problems in new and innovative ways.
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Software Skills network
This growing NHS Finance community offers its members a virtual forum to further develop their skills in widely accessible technologies.
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Clinical Transformation
We are working with the HFMA to collect and share examples of clinical transformation. These will be included as case studies in the NHS England and HFMA NHS value and efficiency map.
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Engagement Value Outcome – EVO
EVO facilitates the engagement of a multidisciplinary team in the understanding and use of patient-level information and costs, and its relationship to value in healthcare.
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Provider Finance Return – Automation Tool
The Finance Innovation Forum and its volunteers in collaboration with NHS England’s returns team have developed an Excel based automated tool for the PFR return.
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Art of the Possible
This briefing aims to provide a short history and a basic level of understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. It identifies existing opportunities and proposes areas of opportunity, so together we can begin to think about what place these technologies could have in the future of NHS Finance.
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Become an Innovation Peer Reviewer
The Innovation Programme relies on volunteers from the NHS Finance community to sign up and peer-review submissions.
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