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.
Search results for 'Digital, data and technology'
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Investigation into Verify
Published on:An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.
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Progress of the 2016-2021 National Cyber Security Programme
Published on:This report examines how effectively the Cabinet Office coordinates the 2016–2021 National Cyber Security Programme.
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Tackling serious and organised crime
Published on:This report examines whether the government tackles serious and organised crime in an effective and coherent way.
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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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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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Transformation guidance for audit committees
Published on:Transformation programmes can be highly complicated and risky. This guidance assists those overseeing them by setting out questions committees should ask during set-up, delivery and live-running phases.
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Digital Insights team
Our Digital Insights team are experts on digital transformation and technology programmes, with experience in both the public and private sectors.
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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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The BBC’s understanding of its audiences and users
Published on:The report examines whether to inform decisions across the BBC, the Corporation efficiently, effectively and economically understands how people use and respond to the full range of its services.
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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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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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Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS
Published on:This report investigates the NHS’s response to the cyber attack that affected it in May 2017 and the impact on health services.
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Protecting information across government
Published on:Protecting information while re-designing public services and introducing the technology necessary to support them is an increasingly complex challenge.
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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.
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Investigating the impact of out-of-hours GP services on A&E attendance rates: multilevel regression analysis
Published on:This paper sets out how we used an analytical technique called multilevel regression modelling to investigate the factors affecting levels of attendance at accident and emergency (A&E) departments by patients registered at a GP practice.
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Replacing the Aspire contract
Published on:This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts consideration of HMRC’s approach to replacing its contract for IT services with Capgemini, known as Aspire. We set out HMRC’s approach, its business cases and the risks it has to manage. It does not seek to evaluate HMRC’s approach or progress, and therefore does not draw conclusions.
June 2016
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Progress on the Common Agricultural Policy Delivery Programme
Published on:This an update on earlier reports by the NAO and Committee of Public Accounts on the progress of the Common Agricultural Policy Delivery Programme. It focuses primarily on the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme payments to English farmers and landowners and improvements to the process for the 2016 and future years.