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  1. Progress in preventing cardiovascular disease

    Work in progress

    Autumn 2024

    The study will examine how effectively government is identifying, preventing and mitigating the impact of cardiovascular disease on people and the economy.

  2. Reducing the harm from illegal drugs

    Report Value for money

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    Our report looks at whether the government is well positioned to achieve its drug strategy’s 10-year ambitions.

  3. Alcohol treatment services

    Report

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    Factual briefing on alcohol treatment services in England, informed by discussions with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, and the Association of Directors of Public Health.

  4. Auditing government’s pandemic response

    Insight Opinion

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    Like governments around the world, ours has committed unprecedented amounts of public money to the fight against coronavirus. By the end of 2020, this reached £271 billion in the UK and will continue to increase. As the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office has been tracking the Government’s pandemic spending commitments, reporting […]

  5. Childhood obesity data visualisation

    Report Interactive visualisation

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    Last updated – 01 February 2021 About this tool  Childhood obesity is a worsening problem which successive governments have attempted to address.  The childhood obesity data visualisation is an exploratory tool.  It should enable users to identify avenues for local exploration, including potentially similar local areas to explore over time. This interactive data visualisation supports the National Audit Office report on Childhood Obesity which was published in September 2020.  The data we present […]

  6. Investigation into pre-school vaccinations

    Report Value for money

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    This investigation sets out the system for providing vaccinations to pre-school children in England and the levels of uptake.

  7. Childhood obesity

    Report Value for money

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    This report examines the effectiveness of the government’s approach to reducing childhood obesity in England.

  8. Managing government borrowing

    Report Value for money

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    The environment for government borrowing has become more challenging in recent years – requiring sustained focus from government.