1. Finance and Clinical Engagement
By Ak Maheswaran

2. Experience of Finance
Clinicians have very little experience of Healthcare finance

3. Experience of Finance
If asked about Healthcare finance. Mist clinicians would talk about cost cutting and efficiency drives, but with little understanding of the system wide issues facing the NHS

4. Experience of Finance Different People Same Issues
But having worked with Finance professional, I have found them to be enthusiatic team players, who are facing the same problems that clinicians are facing.

5. Experience of Clinicians
What are your experience of Clinicians?

6. Levels of Engagement

7. Current Level of Engagement
Strategic level
Trouble shooting
No Dynamic Collaboration

8. Improving ENgagement
Education
Building Relationships

9. Clinical & Finance Engagement
Junior
Senior / Board
Clinicians
Finance
Currently Clinicians and Finance Professionals generally work in isolation throughout most of their careers until they reach senior or executive roles where they may have some interaction.

10. Clinical & Finance Engagement
Junior
Senior / Board
Clinicians
Finance
What we want to achieve is shared learning throughout the careers of both clinicians and finance professionals.

11. Education
E-Learning
Animations
Written Resources
Face 2 Face

12. Animations

13. Crossing Professional Boundaries
“Most teams in the NHS – at all levels – do not take the time to stop and reflect,” says Dr Sanjay Agrawal, a consultant at University of Leicester Hospitals and the FFF lead for Close Partnering. “It’s seen as a luxury. We’re saying it’s not a luxury. It’s an essential, basic requirement of well-functioning teams, especially when members come from very different professional backgrounds.
“It may not sound ground-breaking. It may not sound like you need a toolkit to help you do it. But the reality is that taking the time to stop and reflect on the way you work as a team is a powerful tool for improvement. The best teams do it all the time.”
The toolkit has undergone rigorous testing – 22 NHS organisations in England piloted it, including acute, community and mental heath trusts as well as clinical commissioning groups – to ensure that it works in a variety of environments. It has been adapted to take account of feedback from this phase, and the result is due to be launched for widespread use in early 2016.
Encouragingly, the pilot schemes found the toolkit has a significant impact on clinical engagement and cross-departmental teamworking. It encourages clinical and financial leaders to pair up and take the initiative to improve working relationships, and to work through the approach together.
The pilots also identified some barriers to getting teams to get to grips with the toolkit, and to make sure they set aside time.

14. What Can Finance Offer Clinicians?
Business Cases
Quality Improvement Projects
PLICS
Procurement
Coding
Data/Trend Analysis

15. What Can Finance Offer Clinicians?

16. Quality improvement

17. Existing Initiatives Protecting Resources, Promoting Value – AoMRC
Getting It Right First Time – British Orthopaedic Association
Institute of Healthcare Improvement

18. Summary Steps to Better Engagement
Start early (Target Junior Clinicians)
Education
Reflect on Team-working
Selling points
Quality Improvement as tool for Added Value

19. Questions