NHS financial management and sustainability 2019
Published on:The report examines whether the NHS is on track to achieve financial sustainability.
The report examines whether the NHS is on track to achieve financial sustainability.
Carillion going into liquidation left two new hospitals unfinished. The projects will now be completed with public finance.
Funding for ongoing health care is a complex and highly sensitive area, which can affect some of the most vulnerable people in society and those that care for them.
This investigation builds on our previous work on NHS Property Services Limited and examines the progress the Service has made.
The NAO has investigated how NHS Shared Business Services handled its backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence.
The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.
This report provides a summary of the UK government’s response to COVID-19 to date.
The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides for the new Parliament, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons select committees and members of Parliament.
This briefing describes the Civil Contingencies Secretariat’s contingency preparations for the UK exiting the EU without a deal.
Additional funding, aimed to help the NHS get on a financially sustainable footing, has instead been spent on coping with existing pressures.
Read the highlights and watch the recording from our recent event, Effective regulation in a climate of innovation.
How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
This overview updates our report ‘Adult social care in England: an overview (2014)’, highlighting key trends, developments and system pressures.
The amount recovered has increased but NHS hospital trusts remain some way from complying in full with the requirement to recover the cost of treating overseas visitors.
Find the NAO’s reports, insights and overviews by government department or other public body.
This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.
This Departmental Overview looks at the Department of Health (DH) and summarises its performance during the year ended March 2016, together with our recent reports on it.
Our investigation focuses on the delivery, performance, oversight and progress implementing change on four health screening programmes.
Good progress has been made by the Department of Health and NHS England in setting up a programme to close hospital beds for people with a learning disability, but the programme is not yet on track to achieve value for money. The report examines how the NHS in England and local authorities seek to improve the lives of the 129,000 people aged 18 to 64 who use local authority learning disability support services.
This report investigates the NHS’s response to the cyber attack that affected it in May 2017 and the impact on health services.