Individual

Membership

Booklet

Five key reasons why to become a Member

of HFMA today

1. Connectedness

2. Capability

3. Capacity

4. Content

5. Championing

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Exclusive Member-Only Benefits

Get a strong return on your investment

HFMA offers our members and partners exclusive benefits, delivering a strong return on

your investment. By joining with us as an individual member, HFMA can assist you to

establish strong networks and partnerships within the health finance sector.

Our aims as an organisation is to provide value through education, development, research

and networking activities, and by becoming a part of that, you can have access to many

opportunities throughout the year.

Always striving to offer our members the best opportunities to network, learn and excel,

we are dedicated to creating strong relationships with all individual members to discover

what each member needs, and improve how we can assist with that.

Our presence is constantly expanding, which in turn creates many more opportunities to

our members. By joining as a member, you will be a part of our growth, and can aid us to

ultimately create strong connections, build capability and capacity for everyone to benefit

from in the health care sector.

Individual Memberships cost $195.00 (GST exclusive) for 12 months

Education

Get a strong return on your investment

Education is the core driver behind HFMA, with continuous education and learnings

always a priority. Members have access to the educational events at members rates

including:

1. Executive Breakfast Series

2. Health Finance Fundamentals Program

3. Certified E-Learning courses

4. Industry recognised Annual Conferences with National and International

speakers

5. Business Cases and Business Intelligence Program

6. Finance for Non-Finance Managers Program

7. Special Interest Group Events

8. Alongside many more.

Our educational events are always organised to suit a target audience, and we aim

to cater for every individual in the sector by ensuring we encompass speakers who

represent the sector and each area.

Our passion to assist valuable members in the health finance sector is continuously

seen by our branching out into new special interest groups, and expanding not only

within the fields of health finance, but throughout the country and globally.

The E-learning platform utilised by HFMA is also constantly expanding, allowing us

to deliver key learnings in a variety of areas, to any member. It is a fantastic

education foundation as it presents you, as the member, the opportunity to choose

your modules and self-drive the program. It is simple to use, and is a perfect

opportunity to broaden your knowledge, no matter what position or how many

years you may have in the health finance sector.

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Professional Development

Boost your career with our targeted activities

Attending HFMA events provides you with an opportunity to learn from executives,

directors and senior leaders across the health finance sector, while you network

and share with like-minded professionals. Not only do our members have access to

all HFMA events at discounted prices, each attendance will help you earn

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.

Our professional development opportunities are available to all members and

include:

• Certified E-learning courses

• Regular professional development forums

• International Study Tours to the UK and US

• Professional development specific to Special Interest Group areas

• CFO Sustainability Forum

Being a part of the HFMA professional development program offers the opportunity

to gain up-to-date knowledge and learning. At HFMA, our goal is to identify the

health finance ‘gaps’ and work with other organisations to provide a knowledge

management framework that address these gaps and assists ongoing professional

development for those working in the industry.

Through our membership portal, you can view all events and resources that can

allow the growth of your professional development, while also having the facilities

to track your CPD points.

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Exclusive Member-Only Networking

National and International Exposure

Get to know other professionals in the health finance community

Learn from the best

HFMA strongly believes in the value of networking and information exchange to

make your working life more reward.

We offer the opportunity to communicate with the Executives, Directors and senior

leaders across health finance, while also provide the resources to engage with

those outside of these areas, who have a sound knowledge of the fundamentals

and gaps, and a key input into what it may take to make healthcare sustainable.

Based on this we run targeted member-only networking events to facilitate and

encourage sharing between like-minded professionals. Members will have the

opportunities to converse with others and discover other solutions and workings

within the sector that can be utilised.

Furthermore, all members receive the latest industry information through

newsletters, email updates and online webpages. This presents ongoing offers and

reminders of what is new in the sector, and at HFMA.

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Resources and Research

Be one step ahead on all the latest health finance topics

HFMA believes in the power of collaboration. We are working with health

organisations to conduct research in order to provide resources and support to

members.

HFMA have an e-knowledge repository, a sector-wide library of health finance

documents, which encourage sharing across the sector. Through the repository,

HFMA members can access:

• White Papers published by HFMA and partner organisations

• HFMA past Conference presentations

• HFMA AGM Minutes and Annual reports

• HFMA event survey results

• Presentations from the International Study Tours.

We are committed to ensuring all programs are based on sound research, evidence

and data, and offer members the chance to gain insight and wisdom of experts in

the health finance field.

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