Thought leadership

CIMA produces many thought leadership articles for the public sector:

Transparency and accountability: Using better data to drive performance in the NHS (PDF 479KB) by CIMA.

In-year financial forecasting in the NHS (PDF 245KB). This is aimed primarily at finance directors and their staff, but will be of value to general management and non-executives.

The CIMA Strategic Scorecard' is a unique tool for trust boards to utilise and is central to a key and on-going effective management and review process.

Targeting cost - an article by Simon Wombwell ACMA, CGMA, deputy director of finance and procurement at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and member of the CIMA NHS group (PDF 16KB).

Why is payment by results so difficult? (PDF 13KB) by Steven Bliss, CIMA NHS Projects Working Group.

Costs, care and rationing: A comparative study of intensive care in the UK and Finland (PDF 136KB) research report.

Target costing in the NHS - reforming the NHS from within (PDF 81KB) by the CIMA NHS Working Group.

Raising the standard of performance reporting in the NHS: A guide to best practice in performance reporting to NHS boards (PDF 499 KB) by the HFMA and CIMA.

Cost variability in health care (PDF 234KB) research report.

Decision-making in health care: Exploring cost variability (PDF 52KB) CIMA Research Executive Summaries series.