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National Audit Office Press Notice

The Provision of Out-of-Hours Care in England

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
HC 1041 2005-2006
5 May 2006
ISBN: 0102937583
Price: £10.75

Since this report was laid before Parliament, Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust have informed us that the cost data they submitted in their survey return was incorrect. This affects a number of figures contained in the report:

• Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust are no longer the most cost-effective PCT in the ‘Significant Rural’ category, as identified in Figure 7.
• The most cost-effective PCT in this category is therefore Cheshire West PCT, whose key data are as follows: actual cost per head - £4.45; quality score – 12; quality points per £ spent – 2.7.
• Indicative savings figures derived from all PCTs benchmarking themselves against their most cost-effective peers fall from £134 million (paragraph 4.19) to £129 million. Savings figures based on PCTs more expensive than the average reducing their costs to the median also fall from £53 million (paragraph 4.20) to £49 million.

 

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