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Making a fair contribution
In October I had the opportunity to spend two days at Ashford and St Peter’s Foundation Trust in Surrey. My visit turned out to be a perfectly timed introduction to my new job. I took over the role of Programme …
The financial incentives – what’s in it for trusts?
Preparing the slides for the recent cost recovery webinar really made me think about how best to describe what the financial rewards are for individual trusts in delivering the Visitor and Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme. For some trusts who have …
Reflections on the programme
So, almost two and half years after I joined the cost recovery programme, I am moving on to a new role. As I think through my handover, I have been reflecting on the challenge we were given then - to …
Launch of training programme for NHS staff
This blog marks the start of a welcome return to the Cost Recovery Team’s updates on the programme. This week, we launched the first in a series of e-learning modules with the award winning E-learning for Healthcare (e-LfH). The team …
Exciting roles within the new Cost Recovery Support Team
(Re-advertised to accommodate part-time candidates) Do you challenge the status quo, always look for improvement and want to make a difference? Do you like the thought of working on a high-profile project of national significance? Are you able to engage …
New EHIC reporting incentive for NHS trusts and foundation trusts
We will be holding a twitter chat on the EHIC incentive on 1 October from 2pm - please join us using the hashtag #NHSehic. You can also tweet to @nhscostrecovery. The UK paid out approximately £750m to other European Economic …
New policies require input from us
I would like to thank Kate Dixon for chairing the London Network Overseas Visitors Managers Meeting. This was our second meeting and one in which Kate highlighted a number of points with regards to future policies and guidelines the Department …
Making links with vulnerable groups
Identifying and understanding the potential impact our work has on vulnerable groups is crucial. With this in mind, my colleague Joanna and I travelled to Birmingham which is fast becoming Europe’s most mixed city – the population of West Birmingham …
Understanding barriers and changing behaviours
Last week, the programme team brought together members of the NHS Reference group - our stakeholder group supporting the design and delivery of the engagement and implementation programme and DH analysts to discuss the behaviour change that we will need …
Starting the conversation with London finance teams
As Kate said in her blog, we had a further London network meeting last week, this time of members of the finance community from Trusts across the capital. It was great for me as a newcomer to the health world …