Dental recovery plan unlikely to deliver target of 1.5m additional treatments
Published on:The dental recovery plan, launched in February 2024, is unlikely deliver an additional 1.5 million treatments by March 2025.
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The franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust
Published on:The first private company awarded a franchise to run an NHS hospital has made improvements in some clinical areas, but big financial challenges remain.
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Managing high value capital equipment in the NHS in England
Published on:Value for money is not being achieved across all trusts in the planning, procurement and use of high value equipment. There are significant variations across England in levels of activity and a lack of comparable information about performance and cost of machine use.
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Ensuring employers comply with National Minimum Wage regulations
Published on:It is important that the Government ensures its compliance programme reflects the changing risks within the labour market, and maintains its progress in ensuring all employers pay the minimum wage.
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Confirmed impacts: Drawing together information and insights across the adult care system
Published on:This impacts case study shows how our review of the whole adult care system and the increasing pressures on its financial and service sustainability aided the debate about meeting future care needs and highlighted the need for more research to identify the most effective ways of working.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
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The procurement of consumables by NHS acute and Foundation trusts
Published on:NHS hospitals often pay more than they need to when buying basic supplies. A combination of inadequate information and fragmented purchasing means that NHS hospitals’ procurement of consumables is poor value for money.
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National Health Service Landscape Review
Published on:Review of the new arrangements for the NHS proposed in the Health White Paper.
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Oversight of user choice and provider competition in care markets
Published on:Shortcomings must be addressed if value for money is to be secured in the future for users of social care “personal budgets” once they are extended to all eligible users by April 2013.
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NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
Published on:The NAO Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 provides details about our work and performance.
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Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 18
Published on:Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011
Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 18 led by the Department of Health: ‘Promote better health and wellbeing for all’
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Management of NHS hospital productivity
Published on:Hospital productivity has fallen over the last ten years. There have been significant increases in funding and hospitals have used this to deliver against national priorities, but they need to provide more leadership, management and clinical engagement to optimise the use of additional resources and deliver value for money.
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Costs multiply as uncertainty dogs UK health security campus
Published on:The UK’s future resilience to dangerous diseases is being undermined by decision-making failures regarding a planned health security campus in Harlow.
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Introducing Integrated Care Systems: joining up local services to improve health outcomes
Published on:This report examines progress in establishing Integrated Care Systems in England.
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Investigation into supported housing
Published on:Report summarising the National Audit Office’s (NAO) investigation into the provision of supported housing in England
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The adult social care market in England
Published on:This report examines the current care market and the Department of Health & Social Care’s role in overseeing it.
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Short guide to the NAO’s work on the Department of Health
Published on:This short guide is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department of Health during the last Parliament.
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Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation
Published on:The Department of Health has made a serious attempt to tackle health inequalities across England. But, having set a target in 2000 to reduce health inequalities, it was slow to take action and health inequalities were not a top priority for the NHS until 2006.
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The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework and the retained medicine margin
Published on:A technical review of the operation of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework over the four years since its introduction in April 2005.
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Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 19
Published on:Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011
Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 19 led by the Department of Health: ‘Ensure better care for all’
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NHS Supply Chain and efficiencies in procurement
Published on:The NHS is not making the most of its spending power to save money in purchasing medical equipment and consumables.