With the right help - provided by finance team - our colleagues can now better understand the financial information they receive each month, in our Trust-wide efforts to control costs.

Assistant Director of Finance Nicola Ventress, came up with the idea of short videos, to explain more about it. She said: "Our Trust's financial position is very challenging and anything we can do to help control our costs and challenge expenditure will help. 

"As well as the videos, which are also relevant for all colleagues, we also hold regular Finance our Future developmental training which can be booked here.

The training videos are aimed at specific aspects of the budget statement in detail.  

The first covers an overview of the budget statement and why it is so important to review these statements and the second looks specifically at how to check pay costs in your budget statement and the nominal roll.

Further videos on non-pay costs, income and bringing it all together will be released in future weeks.

The videos can be found on our finance pages on the intranet. It is essential that budget holders watch the videos and they are also being contacted separately to explain why.

For any further queries on the videos please contact Gary Boothby or Nicola Ventress.