Services for people with neurological conditions: progress review
Published on:Services and outcomes for people with neurological conditions need further improvement.
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General Practice Extraction Service – Investigation
Published on:Mistakes in the original procurement and contract management of an IT system, designed to extract data from GP practices, contributed to losses of public funds, through asset write-offs and settlements with suppliers.
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Guidance and information for auditors
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).
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Local Audit Code and Guidance team
The NAO’s Local Audit Code and Guidance (LACG) team is responsible for our work on the Code of Audit Practice and supporting guidance to local auditors arising from the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.
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Code of Audit Practice
Find out about the Code of Audit Practice, the NAO’s role and supporting guidance for local auditors.
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Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
Published on:The Government did not meet its goal of transferring by 1 June 2014 all people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, for whom it was appropriate, from mental hospitals into the community.
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Progress in improving cancer services and outcomes in England
Published on:There is considerable scope to make further improvements in cancer services and patient outcomes across England.
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Public Health England’s grant to local authorities
Published on:Public Health England has made a good start in supporting local authorities with their new responsibilities for public health but it is too soon to tell whether its approach is achieving value for money.
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Planning for the Better Care Fund
Published on:The Better Care Fund is an innovative idea but the quality of early preparation and planning did not match the scale of the ambition. Current plans forecast £314m of savings for the NHS rather than the £1 billion in early planning assumptions.
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Funding healthcare: Making allocations to local areas
Published on:There is wide variation in the extent to which £79 billion in central funding allocated to local health bodies differs from target allocations that are based on relative need.
• This is NAO’s first report on funding since the 2013 health reforms took effect. Where possible comparisons have been made with funding under the previous system set out in a 2011 NAO report.
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Out-of-hours GP services in England
Published on:Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.
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Maternity services in England
Published on:Most women have good outcomes from NHS maternity services, but there are significant and unexplained variations in performance around the country.
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Emergency admissions to hospital: managing the demand
Published on:Many emergency admissions to hospital are avoidable and many patients stay in hospital longer than is necessary.
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Managing the transition to the reformed health system
Published on:Although new organisations set up as part of the reformed health system were ready to start functioning on time, the transition to the system is not yet complete.
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Confirmed impacts: Securing the future financial sustainability of the National Health Service
Published on:We found that the 2007-2011 Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Board’s poor financial management and procurement of an unaffordable PFI scheme had left the Trust in a critical financial position.
This NAO impacts case study represents one example where there has been some beneficial change, whether financial or non-financial, resulting from our involvement.
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Memorandum on the provision of the out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall
Published on:A memorandum on the provision of out-of-hours GP services in Cornwall found whistleblowers played a significant role in highlighting concerns about the service.
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Financial audits: an overview
Our financial audit reports contain audit opinions on accounts across the public sector.
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The Care Quality Commission: Regulating the quality and safety of health and adult social care
Published on:The Care Quality Commission had a difficult task in establishing itself and has not so far achieved value for money in regulating the quality and safety of health and adult social care in England.
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Establishing social enterprises under the Right to Request Programme
Published on: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.
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Managing staff costs in central government
Published on:Despite numbers of staff employed by central government falling slightly over the last decade, costs have increased by 10 per cent.