This report highlights risks to value for money associated with the Department of Health’s programme aimed at enabling its staff to take the lead in leaving the NHS to set up health social enterprises. These are independent bodies delivering services, previously provided in-house, under contract to PCTs.
This report sets out the facts about government preparing the NHS and adult social care in England for COVID-19.
The NHS as a whole achieved a net surplus of £515 million in 2006-07, compared with a net deficit of £547 million in 2005-06, according to a report out today by the National Audit Office. The NHS Summarised Accounts show that in 2006-07 287 NHS organisations reported a gross surplus of £1,431 million (2005-06: 357 […]
This report looks at how effectively government met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable through the shielding programme.
To support local auditors in their work and facilitate consistency of approach between auditors of the same types of entity, we maintain a series of Auditor Guidance Notes (AGNs).
There is considerable scope to make further improvements in cancer services and patient outcomes across England.
Many emergency admissions to hospital are avoidable and many patients stay in hospital longer than is necessary.
Significant annual savings worth tens of billions of pounds are available through improving public sector productivity, the head of the NAO will say.
There was a deficit across the NHS as a whole in 2004-05 for the first time since 1999-00. Latest figures also show the deficit has worsened for 2005-06. Compared to 2003-04, the number of NHS bodies with deficits increased, and more of these deficits were significant in size, according to Financial Management in the NHS, […]
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
This investigation sets out the system for providing vaccinations to pre-school children in England and the levels of uptake.
The new contract for general practice has contributed to improved recruitment and retention of GPs, with numbers increasing from 26,833 to 30,931 since 2003. However, according to a report out today by the National Audit Office, the contract has cost the Department £1.76 billion more than it originally budgeted for. Today’s report found that, in […]
The report examines the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements covering 2019-20.
Under the new NHS consultants’ contract, consultants in England are earning on average 25 per cent more than three years ago but are working the same number of hours or less. Whilst the contract has the potential to improve management of consultant time it has yet to deliver the full value for money to the […]
This investigation builds on our previous work on NHS Property Services Limited and examines the progress the Service has made.
Our financial audit reports contain audit opinions on accounts across the public sector.
Carillion going into liquidation left two new hospitals unfinished. The projects will now be completed with public finance.
The National Audit Office reported to Parliament today the results of its examination of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. The Programme’s scope, vision and complexity are wider and more extensive than any ongoing or planned healthcare IT programme in the world and it represents the largest single IT investment in the UK […]
This report examines waiting time standards for elective and cancer treatment and factors associated with performance in meeting these standards.