Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts
Published on:Monitor has achieved value for money in regulating NHS foundation trusts, and has generally been effective in helping trusts in difficulty to improve.
Monitor has achieved value for money in regulating NHS foundation trusts, and has generally been effective in helping trusts in difficulty to improve.
Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.
Many NHS trusts need to tackle a range of financial, quality and governance issues if they are to meet the standards required of them to become self-governing foundation trusts by 2014. The Department of Health and the NHS will now have to decide how they will deal with those facing the most severe problems.
This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department of Health during 2010-2011.
The first private company awarded a franchise to run an NHS hospital has made improvements in some clinical areas, but big financial challenges remain.
Value for money is not being achieved across all trusts in the planning, procurement and use of high value equipment. There are significant variations across England in levels of activity and a lack of comparable information about performance and cost of machine use.
NHS hospitals often pay more than they need to when buying basic supplies. A combination of inadequate information and fragmented purchasing means that NHS hospitals’ procurement of consumables is poor value for money.
Shortcomings must be addressed if value for money is to be secured in the future for users of social care “personal budgets” once they are extended to all eligible users by April 2013.
This report examines progress in establishing Integrated Care Systems in England.
Review of the new arrangements for the NHS proposed in the Health White Paper.
Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011
Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 18 led by the Department of Health: ‘Promote better health and wellbeing for all’
Hospital productivity has fallen over the last ten years. There have been significant increases in funding and hospitals have used this to deliver against national priorities, but they need to provide more leadership, management and clinical engagement to optimise the use of additional resources and deliver value for money.
Report summarising the National Audit Office’s (NAO) investigation into the provision of supported housing in England
A technical review of the operation of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework over the four years since its introduction in April 2005.
This short guide is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Department of Health during the last Parliament.
The Department of Health has made a serious attempt to tackle health inequalities across England. But, having set a target in 2000 to reduce health inequalities, it was slow to take action and health inequalities were not a top priority for the NHS until 2006.
Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 covering the period 2008-2011
Review of the data systems for Public Service Agreement 19 led by the Department of Health: ‘Ensure better care for all’
This National Audit Office briefing gives an overview of government’s approach to improving air quality in the UK. It has been prepared in support of a joint inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee, the Health Committee and the Transport Committee. It examines why air quality matters; the UK’s plan for improving air quality; and risks and success factors for delivery of government’s air quality plans.
16 November 2017
Government has delayed plans to cap lifetime social care costs and scaled back plans for reforming the system it set out in December 2021.
The NHS is not making the most of its spending power to save money in purchasing medical equipment and consumables.