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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

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

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

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

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

Published:
8 Jun 2018

NHS England’s management of the primary care support services contract with Capita

In this report, we assess whether NHS England managed the PCSE contract with Capita effectively to secure the intended benefits

Sector(s): Health and social care

Performance Improvement area(s): Commercial capability and contract management

Published:
17 May 2018

Reducing emergency admissions

The report examines progress that the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England, NHS Improvement and other stakeholders are making in reducing the impact of emergency admissions on acute hospitals. The report takes a whole-system approach, and looks at action across acute, primary, community and social care systems.

Sector(s): Health and social care

Published:
2 Mar 2018