The head of the National Audit Office will today (Thursday 8 December) outline lessons from its reports into the government’s handling of COVID-19 in a keynote speech at the Houses of Parliament. Gareth Davies, Comptroller & Auditor General, will also offer guidance for decision-makers seeking public spending efficiencies against a tough economic backdrop. Davies was […]
Although new organisations set up as part of the reformed health system were ready to start functioning on time, the transition to the system is not yet complete.
The NAO has reported on the 2021-22 accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
This report considers the readiness of the government to deliver its ambitions for digital transformation in the NHS in England.
This report highlights risks to value for money associated with the Department of Health’s programme aimed at enabling its staff to take the lead in leaving the NHS to set up health social enterprises. These are independent bodies delivering services, previously provided in-house, under contract to PCTs.
There is considerable scope to make further improvements in cancer services and patient outcomes across England.
To support local auditors in their work and facilitate consistency of approach between auditors of the same types of entity, we maintain a series of Auditor Guidance Notes (AGNs).
Significant annual savings worth tens of billions of pounds are available through improving public sector productivity, the head of the NAO will say.
Delivering the National Programme for IT in the NHS is proving to be an enormous challenge. All elements of the Programme are advancing and some are complete, but the original timescales for the electronic Care Records Service, one of the central elements of the Programme, turned out to be unachievable, raised unrealistic expectations and put […]
This investigation sets out the system for providing vaccinations to pre-school children in England and the levels of uptake.
This report looks at how effectively government met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable through the shielding programme.
This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. Introduction A charity for blind people approaches a Primary Care Trust (PCT) with a proposal for a health support service in the area. Under this, staff and volunteers of the charity would greet blind people at NHS establishments and welcome them and show them around safely. For […]
Many emergency admissions to hospital are avoidable and many patients stay in hospital longer than is necessary.
The NHS as a whole achieved a net surplus of £515 million in 2006-07, compared with a net deficit of £547 million in 2005-06, according to a report out today by the National Audit Office. The NHS Summarised Accounts show that in 2006-07 287 NHS organisations reported a gross surplus of £1,431 million (2005-06: 357 […]
The report examines the timeliness of auditor reporting on English local public bodies’ financial statements covering 2019-20.
This is the second NAO report on government’s approach to test and trace services in England.
There was a deficit across the NHS as a whole in 2004-05 for the first time since 1999-00. Latest figures also show the deficit has worsened for 2005-06. Compared to 2003-04, the number of NHS bodies with deficits increased, and more of these deficits were significant in size, according to Financial Management in the NHS, […]
Our financial audit reports contain audit opinions on accounts across the public sector.
This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. NAO guidance NAO: Decision Support Tool NAO: Intelligent Monitoring NAO: Working with the Third Sector Other guidance BIS Prompt Payment Guidance for Public Sector Organisations BIS: How the State Aid rules impact upon funding for the delivery of Public Services including Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) […]
This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. This guidance shares its useful links with the Successful Commissioning Guide, which can be found at the link below: Successful Commissioning Guide: Useful links NAO guidance NAO: Decision Support Tool NAO: Intelligent Monitoring NAO: Working with the Third Sector Other guidance BIS Prompt Payment Guidance for Public […]