Would you like to join this CIPFA Panel?
The CIPFA Health Panel welcomes expressions of interest from people who may seek to join it in due course as vacancies arise. The Panel meets 3 to 4 times a year and assists the Institute’s policy and technical work in its subject area. This typically includes the following types of activity:

• developing Institute responses to Government, professional bodies' and other bodies' consultation/discussion papers and exposure drafts
  
• developing, promoting and maintaining best practice, standards and guidelines
  
• producing and disseminating relevant advice and material for members and employers in the Panel’s subject area
  
• establishing positive and productive professional relationships with Government, government departments and agencies, the national audit bodies, professional regulators and other bodies falling within the Panel's subject area.

If you feel you could contribute to the Panel’s thinking and activities and would like to be considered for membership, in the first instance please contact matthew.allen@cipfa.org.uk with a short summary of your CV, and of your reasons for interest in joining the Panel.

(Posted 3 June 2010)

Free CIPFA health publication
CIPFA is very pleased to offer a new publication to members. Financial, Clinical and Patient Engagement Strategies to Modernise the NHS covers the groundwork necessary to establish a robust business case to modernise NHS services. It includes specific guidance on clinical and patient engagement as pre-requisites of change and a case study on the modernisation of diabetes services.

Please click here to download the publication in full (PDF file).

(Posted 23 February 2010)

Devolution and the NHS: Impacts on policy and structure across the UK.
This new report from CIPFA looks at the divergence between the health sectors in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In England the health service is influenced by the economics of the market; in Scotland and Wales the pursuit of better health services has been via partnerships, while in Northern Ireland health and social care are truly integrated.

The report shows that while many policies are similar, change is happening at a rapid pace across all four countries, with varying degrees of success.

Download: UK Health: A report into diverging structure and policy under devolution for the National Health Service in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at the heart of public services.

Bulletin on NHS Lift
CIPFA's Social Care Panel have published a bulletin on NHS Lift. To download the bulletin, please click here.

TIS Health
Do you work in the health sector? Are you looking for a way to share your expertise? If the answers are yes, then contributing to TISonline could be for you.

The TISonline Health editorial board requires new members with a background in health finance. We would like to hear from anyone with experience in foundation trusts, strategic health authorities, care trusts, or corporate governance, but we would also welcome new members with more general skills and knowledge. For further information please contact rosalind.bird@cipfa.org.uk or call 020 8667 8156.

The TISonline Children's Services is also seeking a practitioner from the health sector to help draft content covering health services for children and joint arrangements between PCTs and local authorities. For further information on what is involved contact maria.menezes@cipfa.org.uk or call 020 8667 8153.

Editorial board members have complimentary access to TISonline for the duration of their membership and contributions qualify for CPD credits.

Newsletters and Bulletins
The July 2010 edition of the Panel e-newsletter may be viewed from this site, click here. Please note that all editions are now published in electronic form and therefore if you wish to continue to receive a copy submit your e-mail address, unless already sent, to www.cipfa.org.uk/panels/health/feedback.cfm.

Details of future Health events will be placed here as soon as they become available.