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About the Panel

The Health Panel, which meets quarterly, was established in 1998 and reports to CIPFA's Public Finance and Management Board. Its terms of reference are:

Finance and policy issues relating to health
Liaison and relationships with the HFMA
Policy formulation and implementation within Board approved strategies and business plans
Approval (by the Chairman where necessary) of Institute responses to Government, professional bodies' and other bodies' consultation/discussion papers and exposure drafts
Work programme formulation for recommendation to the Board, monitoring of programmes and reporting performance to the Board
The development, promotion and maintenance of best practice, standards and guidelines and the production and dissemination of relevant advice and material for members and employers, on issues falling within the Panel's defined areas of responsibility
The establishment of positive and productive professional relationships with Government, government departments and agencies, the national audit bodies professional regulators and other bodies falling within the Panel's defined areas of responsibility; and
Joint working with CIPFA's Public Finance and Management Board and its Panels, as appropriate, on matters of mutual interest.