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  1. Alcohol treatment services

    Report

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    Factual briefing on alcohol treatment services in England, informed by discussions with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, and the Association of Directors of Public Health.

  2. Successful commissioning toolkit

    Insight Good practice guides

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    The Successful Commissioning guide is useful for all commissioners, procurement officers and managers, and grants officers who work in local authorities and local health organisations, including in primary care trusts. Third sector organisations will find the tool useful in thinking about their involvement in delivering public services.

  3. Personalised commissioning in adult social care

    Report Value for money

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    The Department of Health now needs to gain a better understanding of the different ways to commission personalised services for users, and how these lead to improvements in user outcomes.

  4. Dentistry in England

    Report Value for money

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    This memorandum has been prepared to support the Health and Social Care Committee’s Dentistry Services inquiry.

  7. Decommissioning toolkit
    Understanding stakeholders

    This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. More and more local statutory agencies are pooling budgets to provide more joined-up services, for example under ‘section 75’ [See Footnote 1] pooled budget arrangements. When considering decommissioning such services, it is important to understand the implications not just on the prime commissioner but also on those […]

  8. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Designing services

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. After assessing needs, commissioners need to plan or design the service(s) to meet those needs (part of the ‘Plan’ or ‘Procuring services’ are in some commissioning cycles). Establishing and agreeing the outcomes to be achieved by the service is critical for this and the remainder of the […]

  9. Funding healthcare: Making allocations to local areas

    Report Value for money

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    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.

  11. Public Service Pensions

    Report Value for money

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    This report outlines how the public service pensions landscape has changed since the Hutton Review and highlights future challenges.

  12. Decommissioning toolkit
    Managing change

    This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. Decommissioning, whatever form it takes, requires providers to think about and manage change. This is often made more challenging due to tight timeframes and poor quality information. In some cases decommissioning raises very complex issues. Commissioners should sign-post providers to sources of advice and support, particularly for […]

  13. Successful commissioning toolkit
    Assessing needs

    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. There are many models of the commissioning cycle but all share some common features and all include, in some form or another, a stage where the needs of the population you serve are assessed. Assessing needs may form part of a higher-level process called ‘analyse’ or ‘strategic […]

  14. Decommissioning toolkit
    Working with TSOs: What does good practice look like?

    This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. The table outlines what good practice should look like in some of the key areas relating to understanding needs and making a decision to decommission. It identifies the risks of not following good practice and looks at how these risks might be mitigated and what actions commissioners […]

  16. Mental health in prisons

    Press release

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    Government does not know how many people in prison have a mental illness, how much it is spending on mental health in prisons or whether it is achieving its objectives. It is therefore hard to see how Government can be achieving value for money in its efforts to improve the mental health and well being of prisoners. In 2016 there were 40,161 incidents of self-harm in prisons and 120 self-inflicted deaths.

  18. Delivering the Cancer Reform Strategy

    Report Value for money

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    Improvements and efficiencies have been made in key areas of cancer care since the Cancer Reform Strategy was published. However, a lack of high quality information on costs of cancer services and their outcomes inhibits substantial further improvements.

  20. Improving patient access to general practice

    Press release

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    Challenging objectives for improving access to general practice have been set by the Department and NHS England, but a more coordinated approach and stronger incentives are needed.