Healthcare Financial Management Association Resource Page

The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is the professional body for finance staff working in healthcare. They are a charitable organisation that focuses on financial management and governance across the UK health economy through its local and national networks. The association analyses and responds to national policy and aims to exert influence in shaping the healthcare agenda. It also works with other organisations with shared aims in order to promote financial management and governance approaches that really are fit for purpose and effective.

ASH recently collaborated with the HFMA and produced a workshop on health inequality, which is linked here. ASH have collated some useful links from the HFMA website that may be useful to those working in the NHS.

• Health inequalities and prevention page

Interviews and blogs:

• Podcast: Tobacco dependency: a conversation with Professor Sanjay Agrawal
  
  • In this podcast Professor Sanjay Agrawal, the National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco Dependency at NHS England, Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group and a Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine. Sanjay discusses the NHS tobacco dependency prevention programme and health inequalities.
  • The HFMA has published an accompanying briefing: 'Investing to reduce tobacco usage and tackle associated health inequalities' - read it here
• Steve Brown wrote about the views of Bola Owolabi, Director of the national healthcare inequalities improvement programme, NHS England and GP onThe finance case for tackling inequality

Bitesize courses on health inequalities and finance:

• Introduction to health inequalities for finance
• Using data to understand health inequalities

Articles:

• Healthcare Finance features on prevention in the September issue.
• Tackling tobacco dependency by Steve Brown
• Articles by Sanjay Agrawal:
  • Failing to invest in prevention is a false economy
  • Smoking cessation: making a real difference
  • Prevention opportunity
• Smoking cessation: stubbing it out by Seamus Ward

Briefings:

• The role of the NHS finance function in addressing health inequalities
• Using cost data to address health inequalities
• Investing to reduce tobacco usage and tackle associated health inequalities
• How finance teams are helping to reduce health inequalities
• Health inequalities: establishing the case for change
• Resources and funding to reduce health inequalities
• Making the case for investment in prevention and early intervention: tools and frameworks to help local authorities and the NHS (Public Health England)

HFMA health inequalities finance fellowship (HIFF) scheme has been launched with c40 having signed up.