Plymouth council and the local CCG have set up an integrated finance system for wellbeing, covering a large range of services. This was no mean feat given they cover different areas, have different...
Brian Roberts, director of resources at Leicestershire County Council, takes on the CIPFA presidency this year. He talks about his priorities for the institute, defending services and how football...
The skills accountants need to flourish in the charitable and public sectors are surprisingly similar. Colleagues thinking of making the move can be confident of success
Westminster City Council has claimed to have produced the earliest ever set of public sector accounts after getting its books for 2015/16 to external auditors on 9 April, only nine days after the...
Almost one in four board directors of UK financial services firms are women, although only one in seven executive committee members are female, research has revealed.
Any grant-awarding body can be subject to fraud, which may damage service delivery and public trust. Putting safeguards in place can help to protect against this
NHS providers in England ended 2015-16 with a £2.45bn deficit, the second successive year it has been plunged into the red, raising concerns that the Department of Health’s spending limit...
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
The public sector has a duty to ensure equality, yet few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are reaching the upper echelons of public finance. What can be done to change this?
LinkedIn is the world’s main professional social networking site, and there are several steps you can take to get the most out of it and improve your working life
NHS Improvement has called on hospital finance chiefs to do more to help “get a grip” on agency spending as part of efforts to improve the financial sustainability of the health service.
The last financial year was a bruising one for the NHS and this one looks to be tough as well. Here are five recollections of 2015/16 and five things to look out for in 2016/17
The parlous state of the NHS finances requires answers to some difficult questions from the number of commissioners and providers to the role of the market
Public finance professionals are uniquely placed to give organisations the leadership, strategy and hope they need to keep up morale in the face of continued austerity, CIPFA chief executive Rob...
