Investigation into the rescue of Carillion’s PFI hospital contracts
Published on:Carillion going into liquidation left two new hospitals unfinished. The projects will now be completed with public finance.
Carillion going into liquidation left two new hospitals unfinished. The projects will now be completed with public finance.
This investigation builds on our previous work on NHS Property Services Limited and examines the progress the Service has made.
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.
Funding for ongoing health care is a complex and highly sensitive area, which can affect some of the most vulnerable people in society and those that care for them.
The report examines whether the NHS is on track to achieve financial sustainability.
The NAO has investigated how NHS Shared Business Services handled its backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence.
This report provides a summary of the UK government’s response to COVID-19 to date.
The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.
The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides for the new Parliament, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons select committees and members of Parliament.
Additional funding, aimed to help the NHS get on a financially sustainable footing, has instead been spent on coping with existing pressures.
This briefing describes the Civil Contingencies Secretariat’s contingency preparations for the UK exiting the EU without a deal.
How NHS England has handled a backlog of 374,000 items.
Find the NAO’s reports, insights and overviews by government department or other public body.
This overview updates our report ‘Adult social care in England: an overview (2014)’, highlighting key trends, developments and system pressures.
This report covers recent trends in pressures on children’s social care demand and activity and national and local government’s response.
The amount recovered has increased but NHS hospital trusts remain some way from complying in full with the requirement to recover the cost of treating overseas visitors.
This report investigates the NHS’s response to the cyber attack that affected it in May 2017 and the impact on health services.
Read the highlights and watch the recording from our recent event, Effective regulation in a climate of innovation.
This Departmental Overview looks at the Department of Health (DH) and summarises its performance during the year ended March 2016, together with our recent reports on it.
Good progress has been made by the Department of Health and NHS England in setting up a programme to close hospital beds for people with a learning disability, but the programme is not yet on track to achieve value for money. The report examines how the NHS in England and local authorities seek to improve the lives of the 129,000 people aged 18 to 64 who use local authority learning disability support services.