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  1. Out-of-hours GP services in England

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    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.

  2. Confirmed impacts: Helping the Department of Health to improve its accounting processes

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    This impacts case study shows how our accounting expertise provided “invaluable” help in improving the strength and efficiency of the massive process of consolidating all the NHS England and other new health bodies’ accounts.

    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.

  3. Code of Audit Practice 2024 

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    The National Audit Office (NAO) has published the new draft Code of Audit Practice (the Code) 2024.

  4. Transforming NHS ambulance services

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    The Department of Health has until recently been focusing on speed of response as a measure of performance of the ambulance service, rather than on clinical outcomes. The service achieves high levels of public satisfaction but there are wide variations in ambulance trusts’ efficiency. The system has not delivered the best value for money to date.

  5. Access to unplanned or urgent care

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    A National Audit Office (NAO) report assessing the government’s approach to improving urgent and emergency care services in England.

  6. Progress in improving mental health services in England

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    Despite funding and staffing levels for mental health services increasing, and more patients being treated, millions of people with mental health needs are still not accessing services, with some facing lengthy waits for treatment, according to a new National Audit Office report.

  7. Health and social care integration

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    The Better Care Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or hospital activity.

  8. Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre

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    It is important that the services for vulnerable people at the Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre are delivered ‘right first time’ and this did not happen here. Steps are now being taken to address the problems but 35% of the recommendations from Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons’ 2015 inspection have not yet been implemented.

  9. Planning for the Better Care Fund

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    The Better Care Fund is an innovative idea but the quality of early preparation and planning did not match the scale of the ambition. Current plans forecast £314m of savings for the NHS rather than the £1 billion in early planning assumptions.

  10. Maternity services in England

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    Most women have good outcomes from NHS maternity services, but there are significant and unexplained variations in performance around the country.