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  3. Better data means better services – so how can government get there?

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    The shielding programme was a swift government wide response to identify and protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people against COVID-19. Our recent report on Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown, shows how government quickly recognised the need to provide food, medicines and basic care to those CEV people shielding. This had to […]

  7. Confirmed impacts: Driving improvements in NHS stroke care

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    This impacts case study shows how our work prompted a national strategy for stroke care and NHS adoption of clinical best practice more widely, leading to considerable cost reductions.

    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.

  8. Support for Parliament

    The NAO supports Parliament by looking at how government has spent money delivering its policies and if that money has been used in the best way to achieve the intended outcome.

  9. Efficiency savings require learning past lessons

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    Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, outlines lessons from NAO reports into the government’s handling of COVID-19 in a keynote speech at the Houses of Parliament.

  11. Confirmed impacts: Improving the procurement of consumables by NHS trusts

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    This impacts case study shows how our work motivated the Department for Health to develop a tool and coding system that standarised and reduced consumables procurement costs in the NHS.

    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.

  12. 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.

  13. Auditing the government’s response to COVID-19

    Insight Opinion

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    I last posted to this blog in late April as the country was in the teeth of the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining how we were maintaining our operations and adjusting our work programme in the light of the government response to the virus. Now, in late July, most of the UK is gradually emerging from lockdown […]

  18. NHS financial management and sustainability 2015

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    This briefing on the NHS and sustainability in England has been prepared for the Environmental Audit Committee. It focuses on identifying potential good practice, opportunities and challenges and draws on the NAO’s good practice criteria.