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The Software Skills Network
Join a fast-growing NHS finance community, connect with peers, and build skills in widely accessible digital technologies and tools. The network is a place to ask questions, discover new approaches and build your confidence alongside peers.
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The NHS Finance Digital Frontier: Your decision to lead or follow
The NHS Finance Digital Frontier is helping finance professionals build digital skills, make better use of Microsoft technologies and connect with others across the NHS. Through software skills assessments and a programme of practical monthly events, finance staff can learn new skills, share ideas and connect with peers from across the NHS finance community.
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13 new Finance Innovations published!
Each innovation outlines the initial challenges faced, the solutions implemented, and the tangible outputs, outcomes, and quick wins achieved. Start implementing these innovations in your teams today.
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The Innovation Library
Sharing innovative solutions to problems in NHS finance.
View over 250 NHS finance innovations, you can easily filter by technical area, region, NHS organisation, cohort and more!
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Engagement Value Outcome – EVO
EVO has been designed to foster collaboration between clinical and finance teams within NHS trusts. The EVO framework is an open-source physical handbook and will be released free of charge to NHS trusts upon a successful application.
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Finance Innovation Programme
Collecting, peer-reviewing and sharing innovative solutions to problems occurring in NHS finance teams. Find out more about the programme and how to submit your NHS finance innovations here.
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Process Redesign with AI
Learn how to map your processes and how to use AI to redesign them to be more efficient. View upcoming workshops and resources here.
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Data Sharing Agreement Examples
Downloadable data sharing agreements to help facilitate the safe, secure, and compliant sharing of secondary use data.
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The 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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NHS Efficiency Exchange
This platform enables NHS organisations to share free-form efficiency ideas and projects at the local, regional, and national level.
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Innovation Showcase Sessions
In these interactive sessions, participants will find out more about NHS finance innovations approved and published by various organisations in the innovation library. Book on today!
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Copilot for NHS Finance: a practical guide for getting started
This guide has been developed to help NHS finance staff understand what Copilot is, what it can do, and how to use it effectively. It offers practical examples and tips to help colleagues integrate Copilot into the work they are already doing.
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Best Possible Value
BPV is a decision-making toolkit, designed for both financial and clinical professionals to work together in achieving the best outcomes for the patients and service users.
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Working Day 1
Find all the resources that the Innovation Programme has published in relation to Working Day 1 reporting here.
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Crossing Professional Boundaries Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help NHS organisations evaluate and improve working relationships, particularly between clinicians and finance staff.
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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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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
Make an impact: Become a peer-reviewer and help shape the future of NHS finance innovation.
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