In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
In this report, we assess whether NHS England managed the PCSE contract with Capita effectively to secure the intended benefits
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.
Gareth Davies uses the NAO’s insights to outline what government needs to do to make public money work harder
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to the NAO between April and December 2022.
The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.
The financial performance of NHS bodies worsened considerably in 2015-16, according to the National Audit Office.
This investigation sets out facts about penalty charge notices and how the NHS supports vulnerable people to navigate the system.
The NAO has investigated how NHS Shared Business Services handled its backlog of unprocessed clinical correspondence.
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 paper sets out how we used existing data to estimate the impact of our value for money work on stroke care.
The Department of Health and its partners are still some way from implementing a plan to put the NHS’ finances in England on a sustainable footing, according to three reports issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
Public bodies should demonstrate robust, independent oversight of both their contractual arrangements and overall commercial portfolios
Our latest blog explains what enterprise thinking is and why you need it for risk management across a whole system.
This report evaluates the government’s COVID-19 vaccine programme focusing on events up to the end of October 2021.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said government can provide people with better public services despite the challenging fiscal backdrop.
Against a backdrop of increasing pressure on NHS finances, NHS England has not controlled the rising cost of specialised services.
Explore the results of our surveys of NHS acute hospitals and clinical commissioning groups, showing their views on NHS England’s commissioning of specialised services.
This investigation examines DHSC’s performance in managing PPE contracts. It is a factual account of what has happened since November 2020.
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.