Our Finance Consultancy and support services team brings together deep expertise from both within and outside the NHS. We provide professional finance services and technical insight to a wide range of customers across the health and care system.
Working in close partnership with you, we offer a scalable, flexible operating model that allows us to adapt seamlessly to your evolving needs. Through continuous review and improvement, we deliver innovative solutions and enhanced financial processes that help drive better outcomes.
Our offer
We offer a full spectrum of strategic and operational finance solutions to support your organisation’s financial health and long-term planning. We support large scale national programme as well as working with individual project teams, Integrated Care Boards and systems and provider collaboratives. Our areas of expertise include:
- Strategic financial planning
- Financial and activity budget setting, monitoring and reporting
- Financial efficiency and productivity reviews
- Business case and bid development (including Green book business case support)
- Finance contract management including Payment by Results (PbR) expertise
- Merger and acquisition support
- Provision of finance support to project teams including programme and project management
- Invoice validation and assurance at scale services
- Accounts payable and receivable support
- Procurement finance support and advisory
- Support for Population Health and system planning
- Programme budgeting and resource allocation
- Financial responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
- Finance training and capacity building
The benefits
We deliver end-to-end finance support designed to help you operate effectively, meet regulatory requirements, and make informed decisions.
Our services provide:
- Strategic development of financial and activity plans aligned with your objectives, translating them into realistic annual and monthly budgets and plans
- Close collaboration with key stakeholders, including clinical teams, programme leads, auditors, and external partners
- Identification of improvement and efficiency opportunities and support in implementing sustainable change
- Quality professional support delivering real change lead by our NHS values
- Improved financial systems and processes releasing efficiencies and delivering at scale services
- Expert financial presentations and insights for Boards, Audit Committees, and leadership teams
“Excellent service we consistently receive from the NECS Financial Services Team“
Contact the team
Karen Elliott
Head of Programme: Strategic Finance
karen.elliott11@nhs.net