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Hi all, We are overhauling our budget holder training material and was wondering if anyone could share any material they use. Many thanks in advance Jake

The Trust has launched its Future Focussed Finance journey at its team away day on Wednesday 25th September, attended by all of the Finance directorate staff, including non-Finance members of the directorate from the Clinical Coding, Contracting and Business Services teams, setting the aspiration for all team members to become Value Makers.

To kick-start our new workstream around Health & Wellbeing, we are holding a 'Wellbeing Workshop' in central Manchester on 26th November 2019 to help us understand what

Su Rollason, Chief Finance Officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has signed the FD declaration on 26th September 2019.    

News on the latest FFF Towards Excellence accreditations

"If you are not serving the needs of the Customer yourself, then you had better be serving the needs of someone who is"

Working as a Financial Analyst in a Costing Team blessed with access to a wealth of electronic data, I have a real opportunity to drive changes in our services and make a positive impact to patient care. As a Value Maker, I’m always striving to achieve this, and recognise it requires a proactive approach to understanding the reality behind our information to make it come alive on my screen.

It was great to speak with so many valuemakers at the CCG network market stall at last Friday's conference. What was really clear is that there is a real opportunity to work together on a wide range of things - from the big changes such as CCG mergers to the day to day 'where can I code this in the ledger' there were a lot of common themes.

On Friday 20th September we presented our first ever Value Maker Awards at the Value Maker Annual Conference in London. The awards were hotly contested with a total of 28 nominations across the 4 categories which were based on our Four Strengths framework [1]. We were delighted that NHS England and [1] https://www.futurefocusedfinance.nhs.uk/four-strengths-nhs-finance-framework