Finance and Information
About us
Director of Finance
Mike Savage
Deputy Director of Finance
Matt Chandler
Phone 01535 294812
To see contact details for other department leads click on the lists on this page.
The finance and Information department at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for the provision of financial support, information and advice to the Trust regarding:
- Production of Financial Management Information
- Financial Planning and Budgeting
- Production of Business Cases
- Financial Governance
- Financial Training
- Collection and Payment of Invoices
- Payroll
- Cashiers
- Contracting and Income
Financial management
Department Lead: Isabel Greenwood, email: isabel.greenwood3@nhs.net
The Financial Management team is responsible for providing operational finance  support and guidance to clinical and corporate teams across the Trust. This includes the production of monthly financial management information, financial advice and support to budget holders, supporting the preparation of annual budgets, assisting in the production of business cases, and supporting budget holders in variance analysis and forecasting.
The team also ensures  monthly and quarterly statutory returns to our regulators are completed and submitted on time, as well as co-ordinating the annual financial planning process and supporting operational teams with the Trust’s Waste Reduction Programme.
Financial services
Department Lead: Neil Helm, Assistant Director of Finance, email: neil.helm@nhs.net
The Financial Services team is responsible for the production of the annual statutory returns, capital planning, financial governance, cash management, charitable funds, the payment and collection of invoices, and payroll services.
The Financial Services team also supports some of our patient focused services such as patient travel reimbursements and lost property – see separate link for further information.
Income and contracting
Contracting Lead: Philip Driscoll, Income & Contracting Finance Manager, email: philip.driscoll@nhs.net
The Income and Contracting team provide advice and support to the Trust on all clinical income matters, produce monthly variance reports and forecasts, and support the Business Planning process.
The team work closely with our main commissioners to monitor performance in year and agree the annual contracts for the Trust.
Information services
Head of department: Neil Scott, email anhsft.informationservices@nhs.net
The Information Services department provides data and reporting to the organisation to support operational and performance management, additionally it is responsible for the extraction, collation and submission of regional and nationally mandated returns.
Travel reimbursement
Some patients may be eligible for reimbursing of their travel. For further information on this scheme please click here
Your property and valuables
Inpatients requiring property to be held for safe keeping or return of property held for safe keeping can ring 01535 294022.
Valuables lost on the hospital site are held in the Cashiers office, which is located in Zone C, location C21. With appropriate evidence these can be recovered from the cashiers office between 9am and 10am, Monday to Friday, by ringing 01535 294022.
Publication of spend
Items of spend over £25,000
Details of supplier payments for individual invoices exceeding £25,000 are shown here. These details are updated monthly. Please click below to access the information.
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