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Health and social care

Our work covers a wide range of organisations under the responsibility of the Department of Health. We annually audit the Department of Health's Resource Account, the accounts of its arms length bodies, the summarised accounts of Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and NHS Trusts, and consolidated accounts for Foundation Trusts.

Our Value for Money programme provides assurance to Parliament on the extent to which the NHS and the Department of Health deliver economically, efficiently and effectively across the health care sector.

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Advice, guidance and tools

In addition to formal reports to Parliament, we also produce a range of other outputs from our financial audit and VFM work. Examples include:

Departmental Overview: A summary of the NAO's work on the Department of Health 2010-2011

September 2011

This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department.

Departmental Overview 2010-2011

NAO briefing for the House of Commons Health Committee: Delivering efficiency savings in the NHS

December 2010

This memorandum has been prepared for the Health Committee to support its review. It sets out how the NHS, supported by the Department of Health, plans to deliver efficiency savings of up to £20 billion by 2014-15.

Delivering efficiency savings in the NHS

Supporting people with autism through adulthood – a model to assess the financial impacts of providing multi-disciplinary support services for adults with high-functioning autism/Asperger syndrome

June 2009

As part of fieldwork for the NAO value for money report Supporting people with autism through adulthood we developed a model to analyse the potential financial impacts of providing multi-disciplinary support services for adults with high-functioning autism/Asperger syndrome across England. The model compares the current baseline of service provision, costs and outcomes with a scenario where adults with high-functioning autism are provided with better targeted health, social care and employment support, achieving outcomes comparable with those of existing specialist services.