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Investigation into the management of health screening

Our investigation focuses on the delivery, performance, oversight and progress implementing change on four health screening programmes.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Performance Improvement area(s): Investigations

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
1 Feb 2019

Pressures on children’s social care

This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.

Sector(s): Children and families, Education and skills, Health and social care, Local services

Department(s): Department for Education

Published:
23 Jan 2019

NHS financial sustainability

The report examines whether the NHS is on track to achieve financial sustainability.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
18 Jan 2019

Local auditor reporting in England 2018

The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.

Sector(s): Government, efficiency and transparency, Health and social care, Local services

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Published:
10 Jan 2019

A review of the role and costs of clinical commissioning groups

This sets out the role, costs and performance of CCGs, the changing commissioning landscape and the future of CCGs.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
18 Dec 2018

Improving children and young people’s mental health services

This report examines whether the government is likely to meet its ambitions for children and young people’s mental health services.

Sector(s): Children and families, Health and social care

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
9 Oct 2018

Adult social care at a glance

This overview updates our report ‘Adult social care in England: an overview (2014)’, highlighting key trends, developments and system pressures.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
16 Jul 2018

The health and social care interface

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.

Sector(s): Health and social care, Local services

Performance Improvement area(s): Local service delivery, Transforming public services

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Published:
4 Jul 2018

Developing new care models through NHS vanguards

This report examines whether the NHS is well placed to get value for money from its investment in developing new care models through vanguards.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Performance Improvement area(s): Financial and service sustainability

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
29 Jun 2018

Investigation into NHS spending on generic medicines in primary care

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.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Performance Improvement area(s): Investigations

Department(s): Department of Health and Social Care

Published:
8 Jun 2018

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