Local auditor reporting in England 2018
Published on:The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.
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Investigation into devolved funding
Published on:This investigation covers how the UK government determines the amount of funding it allocates to the devolved administrations.
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Public Service Pensions
Published on:This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.
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Improving children and young people’s mental health services
Published on:This report examines whether the government is likely to meet its ambitions for children and young people’s mental health services.
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NHS Direct 2004-2005: Qualification of Audit Opinion
Published on:Head of the National Audit Office Sir John Bourn has qualified his opinion on the accounts of NHS Direct for the year up to 31 March 2005 because of a lack of evidence to support a significant number of payroll payments. A second reason for the qualification was a lack of evidence to support comparative […]
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NHS England’s management of the primary care support services contract with Capita
Published on:In this report, we assess whether NHS England managed the PCSE contract with Capita effectively to secure the intended benefits
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Developing new care models through NHS vanguards
Published on:This report examines whether the NHS is well placed to get value for money from its investment in developing new care models through vanguards.
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Investigation into the management of health screening
Published on:Our investigation focuses on the delivery, performance, oversight and progress implementing change on four health screening programmes.
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Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in NHS acute and foundation trusts
Published on:The National Audit Office has found that while the NHS has successfully reduced its expenditure on agency nursing staff, temporary staff remain a key component of trusts’ ability to be flexible and expenditure on temporary nursing staff employed through nursing banks and NHS Professionals has increased. Many NHS trusts do not have robust information to […]
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The health and social care interface
Published on:This ‘think piece’ draws on our past work highlighting the barriers that prevent health and social care services working together effectively, examples of joint working and the move towards services centred on the needs of the individual, to inform the ongoing debate about the future of health and social care in England.
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Department of Health – Innovation in the NHS: Local Improvement Finance Trusts
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) initiative, launched in 2001, is an effective means of improving primary health and social care. The LIFT model has a number of strengths: it takes a long term strategic approach to local health provision which combines the […]
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NHS Direct in England
Published on:NHS Direct, the national telephone healthcare advice service operated by nurses, has achieved a high level of customer satisfaction since its introduction. The service, which has been fully available throughout England and Wales since November 2000, has a good safety record. Evidence at the local level suggests that it can help reduce demand on healthcare […]
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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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Investigation: clinical correspondence handling at NHS Shared Business Services
Published on:The NAO has investigated how NHS Shared Business Services handled its backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence.
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Sustainability and transformation in the NHS
Published on:Additional funding, aimed to help the NHS get on a financially sustainable footing, has instead been spent on coping with existing pressures.
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Investigation into NHS spending on generic medicines in primary care
Published on:This investigation looks at the 2017-18 increase in NHS spending on certain generic medicines, possible causes of the price increases in the market for generic medicines, and how the Department of Health and Social Care responded to the price increases.
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Reforming NHS Dentistry: ensuring effective management of risks
Published on:There is a strong rationale for modernising NHS dentistry, but significant risks will have to be managed if the new arrangements announced by the Department of Health are to be effective and provide value for money, according to the National Audit Office. In particular, given the scepticism of some dentists compounded by a lack of […]
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Managing PFI assets and services as contracts end
Published on:This report provides information on managing PFI contracts when they end and considers whether government is preparing for expiry appropriately.
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NHS (England) Summarised Accounts 2002-2003
Published on:Head of the National Office Sir John Bourn reported to Parliament today that, in 2002-2003, the Department of Health successfully met its target of ensuring that financial balance was achieved in aggregate across the 607 individual NHS organisations. The NHS as a whole reported an underspend of £96 million within the context of healthcare commissioned […]
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Childhood obesity
Published on:This report examines the effectiveness of the government’s approach to reducing childhood obesity in England.