Finance as a clinical partner
“Priya Raman rebuilt Harbourline's finance function around one question: what does the ward actually need?”
By JOS Editorial
published August 27, 2026updated November 4, 2026
Priya Raman's first act as CFO was to spend a night shift on a surgical ward.
What she learned there rewrote the capital budget: the bottleneck was not beds, it was the time nurses spent finding equipment.
Two acquisitions, one culture
Integrating two hospital groups meant reconciling three accounting systems and five different definitions of a patient day.
She chose to standardise the definitions first and the software last.
