NHS England’s modelling for the Long Term Workforce Plan
Published on:Weaknesses in modelling for NHS England’s Long Term Workforce Plan need addressing to improve future strategic workforce planning.
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Framework to review models
Published on:This framework provides a structured, flexible approach to reviewing models. It is intended to aid those commissioning or undertaking analysis of a model with the aim of determining whether the model is robust and reasonable.
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What makes a super model? Using innovative approaches to audit departments’ models
Published on:Find out about the innovative ways our expert Modelling Team scrutinise departments’ models.
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Quality assurance of models: a guide for audit committees
Published on:This good practice guide will help audit committees understand and question the quality assurance framework for business-critical models.
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Data is not just about numbers but opportunities
Published on:The first in a series of blogs looking at the Commercial Lifecycle covers data.
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Using process mining to support the NAO’s investigation into the Windrush compensation scheme
Published on:Use of process mining to help understand the Home Office’s operation of the Windrush Compensation Scheme
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How to audit artificial intelligence models
Published on:In our ever-increasing digital and automatized world, certain buzzwords are becoming more centre stage in the public sector. One of them is “artificial intelligence”. While the concept, and development, of artificial intelligence is not new (artificial intelligence was first recognised as a formal discipline in the mid-1950s), it is a word that has been casually […]
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Financial modelling in government
Published on:This report examines the use of financial models across government.
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Mapping the Justice landscape
Published on:This piece explains how the NAO uses spatial analytics to bring audit teams closer to the data and visualise the complex geographic relationships at work behind the scenes in the justice system.
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Better data means better services – so how can government get there?
Published on:The shielding programme was a swift government wide response to identify and protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people against COVID-19. Our recent report on Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown, shows how government quickly recognised the need to provide food, medicines and basic care to those CEV people shielding. This had to […]
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How data analytics can help with audits
Published on:Data analytics has become an integral part of the audit process. And where a few years ago it was an area where we were exploring and creating tactical solutions to problems, today the NAO, like many organisations, has developed a strong capability and is making significant progress towards the widespread adoption of data analytics across […]
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Challenges in using data across government
Published on:This report draws together our experience of the main challenges and barriers to better use of data across government.
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Exploring the association between A&E performance and bed occupancy using Hospital Episode Statistics
Published on:This paper sets out how we used Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to explore measures of A&E departments’ performance and, in particular, their association with measures of bed pressure.
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Investigating the characteristics of A&E attendances by mental health service users
Published on:This paper sets out how we used NHS administrative data to compare the characteristics of A&E attendances by mental health service users to those of the rest of the population.
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Jobcentre journey time model
Published on:This paper sets out how we created the interactive data visualisation of our jobcentre journey time model.
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Driving improvements in NHS stroke care: evaluating the impact
Published on:This paper sets out how we used existing data to estimate the impact of our value for money work on stroke care.
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Estimating the impact of benefit sanctions on the employment outcomes of sanctioned individuals
Published on:This paper sets out how we used instrumental variables to estimate the impact of benefit sanctions on the employment outcomes of sanctioned individuals in the Work Programme – a large welfare-to-work programme for the long-term unemployed.
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Investigating the volume and readability of guidance on the government’s GOV.UK website
Published on:This paper sets out how we used a technique called “webscraping” to harvest and analyse textual content from the government’s GOV.UK website.
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Analysis Insights team
Our Analysis Insights team are experts in using analytical tools and methods to provide audit insights based on evidence.
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Investigating the potential impacts of cost of debt indexation in the water sector
Published on:This paper sets out how we constructed a counterfactual to establish how much water customers in England and Wales could have benefited from an alternative charging system between 2010/11 and 2014/15.