Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

Publications

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PUBHE026HThe Financial Case for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

The NHS in England is undergoing significant restructuring, with new clinical commissioning groups taking the lead in health service commissioning. Responsibility for public health moves back to local authorities from the NHS, and a new lead statutory body, Public Health England, is to be established. Co-ordinating health promotion, disease prevention and NHS treatment is more important than ever to deliver a truly integrated service. For further details and to order your copies please click here.

PUBHE025HFinancial Risk Management and Budget Holding in the NHS for Clinical Commissioning Groups

The challenge of structural reform, improving quality, and meeting increasing patient expectations whilst nurturing innovation in new clinical commissioning groups within a tight financial envelope is a tall ask.

The focus of this publication is financial risk management and budget holding for these new clinical commissioning groups and is a response to the new challenges. For further details and to order your copies please click here.

PUBFM032HSustainability reporting: A public services perspective (2010)

Public service organisations frequently deal with activities that are strongly linked to sustainability, but do not always fully recognise sustainability as a key line of business. However, increasingly organisations are expected to show that they recognise the challenges that face them, and set out their strategies for dealing with these issues. This publication describes a public sector sustainability reporting approach, and provides the reader with practical information.

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Publication coverNHS Prioritisation: Delivering World Class Practice
Prioritisation is at the top of the NHS agenda. It underpins QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) and reform, and has been at the core of world class commissioning competencies. It is the key to financial sustainability. Click here to find out more and to purchase your copy.

Publication coverA Commissioning Joint Committee Study of Direct Payments and Personal Budgets for Community Care
The CJC has completed their study of the personalisation of community care, of which direct payments and personal budgets are the most demanding and fast-developing elements. The guide also summarises the differences between the legal infrastructures built up by different government departments, and outlines the main provisions of the statutes. Click here for more information and to purchase your copies.

PUBHE024Care Closer to Home – Developing Hospital Services and Integrated Care within the Community
The development of this publication has been set within the context of an NHS that is to become financially challenged, with a recognition that significant innovation is required to take forward service modernisation resulting in better quality, best practice, preventative and evidence-based health services with less real term growth. For further details and to purchase your copies click here.

LG057World Class Procurement, Market Stimulation and Commercial Approaches to NHS Commissioning
Procurement and market management are key enablers of value for money and long-term financial sustainability for a health economy. Understanding this is, in turn, a key enabler to finance professionals delivering financial objectives and to PCTs delivering on their wider obligations. This publication defines and describes the procurement and market stimulation framework, the opportunities within it and the potential it has for NHS commissioning.

With worked examples and case studies throughout, this guide is essential reading to understand and achieve world class commissioning procurement and market stimulation status.

Further details may be found on the CIPFA shop.

PUBLG068A Brief Guide to Local Government Finance for Councillors 2010 Edition (2010)

This shorter brief guide, aimed specifically at members, will be an invaluable resource for authorities, especially councillors, coming in the midst of a time of such change. It will give councillors a brief overview of key facts, figures and requirements in relation to local government finance in a more user friendly and handy reference format - and is available both as a book and a CD-ROM.

HE017Pooled Budgets: A Practical Guide for Local Authorities and the National Health Service (Fully Revised Second Edition 2009)

This new edition of Pooled Budgets, published jointly by CIPFA and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), updates and expands the original guidance, and features a useful summary of the various legislative changes since 2001 and related changes in terminology. It also provides a précis of the alternatives to formal pooling, many of them simpler and administratively more economical, which are proving attractive as resources grow ever tighter.

Further details about the guide can be found on the CIPFA shop.

HE019An Introductory Guide to Children’s Social Care Finance in England (2009)

This new guide builds on the foundation of CIPFA’s earlier guide An Introductory Guide to Social Services Finance (Fully Revised Second Edition). It should contribute to an improved understanding of children’s social care financial issues. It is intended to provide an introduction to the subject and is written with a wide audience in mind.

Further details about the guide can be found on the CIPFA shop.

HE018Local Area Agreements: A Good Practice Guide for Local Government and NHS Finance Practitioners (2009)
Joint working in the public sector has never been so defined as with local area agreements (LAAs). But what are they and how can you make the best of them?

Whether you are a local authority, a primary care trust, a police authority, a development agency or any other partner body, you need to know the answers to these questions.

Further details about the guide can be found on the CIPFA shop.

Supporting People: The Essential Guide for Finance PractitionersSupporting People: The Essential Guide for Finance Practitioners (Fully Revised Fifth Edition 2008)

CIPFA’s Supporting People guide provides comprehensive finance coverage of this important and constantly changing programme. Written by independent consultant and former City of Westminster Finance Director, Paul Cook, this major revision for 2008 embraces:

Expert financial management of this programme is at a premium, as councils use the programme to help vulnerable clients. This new edition of CIPFA’s guide is, therefore, required reading on this complex area. It provides a step-by-step guide to the financial elements of Supporting People.

Achieving Transformational ChangeAchieving Transformational Change – Reform, Efficiency and Lean Thinking in the NHS: A Comprehensive Guide to Success...(2007)

...for Board Members, Senior Managers and Practitioners

How do you reform healthcare and save money at the same time? How do you ensure value for money throughout the organisation? How should changes to frontline systems be developed and what should the changes be?

Each of these questions and a whole lot more are covered in this CIPFA Health Panel publication.

HE012Practice Based Commissioning – The Essential Guide to Practical Implementation (2006)

This title is an invaluable tool for all those involved in practice based commissioning (PBC).

It will be of particular benefit to executives and non-executives at primary care trusts, professional executive committee (PEC) members, PBC leads, project managers and finance managers. Equally, the publication will be of great use to practice based commissioners – both practitioners and practice business managers.

This comprehensive guide provides practical advice on the issues that need to be dealt with and the sub-systems of the NHS that need to adapt in order to facilitate successful PBC. It identifies what needs to be considered in designing, implementing and maintaining local systems and provides guidance on the foundations that need to be laid for the further evolution and growth of PBC.

HE009Financing Long-term Illness in the NHS (2005)

This publication on the financing of long term health conditions addresses two important needs:

First and foremost, it offers NHS finance professionals, service managers, commissioners and others a solid grounding in the financial importance, concepts and practice of modern chronic disease management. It includes: an introduction to chronic care and the linked concepts of case management and supported self-care; an overview of experience to date, including a range of case studies; and a survey of tools and techniques that support good chronic disease management, covering modern technology, end of life care, and policy initiatives such as expert patient programmes and the GMS contract.

In addition, it provides an independent professional commentary on key financial and accounting issues arising from the NHS’s new focus on long term illness, and practical signposts through some of the associated dilemmas. Principal areas covered include the business case for chronic care, the implications for acute hospitals, and how chronic disease management can be squared with payment by results.

Delayed DischargesDelayed Discharges - A Practical Guide to the Financial Implications (2005)

This concise all-in-one guide is essential reading for finance and service professionals operating within social services, the NHS acute sector and primary care trusts. This no-nonsense publication takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the reimbursement legislation focusing on both health and social care responsibilities, the legal requirements and the potential risk areas for all concerned.

The guide covers all the key areas including implementing local protocols, the use of pooled budgets, dealing with disputes and making the most of the reimbursement grant, highlighting both good practice and potential areas of concern.

The Panel’s Back Catalogue
For further details click on the relevant title.

Financial Control and Budgeting for NHS Partnerships: A Practical Guide

Payment by Results: New Financial Flows in the NHS in England

The Role of the Finance Director in Primary Care Trusts