CDM Lens: Finance

The finance lens standardises the complex data required for financial transactions, resource management, and activity-based costing across the NHS.

It encompasses core elements related to budgets, expenditure, income, billing, and the attribution of costs to specific services or patient pathways. Achieving consistency in this financial data is critical for accurate performance reporting, transparent resource allocation, and ensuring fair and efficient billing practices. This lens provides the foundation for powerful financial modelling and benchmarking, enabling leaders to make informed, data-driven decisions that maximise public value and sustain high-quality services.

The below domains are listed by current internal status and number based on the priority of the domain.

Note: More domains are being defined.

Domains

These domains are currently in use or being actively refined.

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