The Impact of Funding Reductions on Local Authorities
Published on:Local authorities have worked hard to manage reductions in government funding, but the DCLG needs to be better informed about the situation across England.
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Managing NHS backlogs and waiting times in England
Published on:This is our second report on backlogs for elective and cancer care. It examines the design of NHSE’s recovery plan, how the NHS has been implementing the plan and the ongoing risks NHSE has to manage.
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Feeding back? Learning from complaints handling in health and social care
Published on:A report out today by the National Audit Office found that navigating complaints systems is not straightforward, particularly for health service users, and handling some complaints takes too long. There is little sharing of lessons from complaints or evidence that services are improving as a result. Some 133,600 NHS and 17,100 social care complaints were […]
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Major trauma care in England
Published on:There is unacceptable variation in major trauma care in England depending upon where and when people are treated, according to a National Audit Office report published today. Care for patients who have suffered major trauma, for example following a road accident or a fall, has not significantly improved in the last 20 years despite numerous […]
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Ministry of Defence: Treating injury and illness arising on military operations
Published on:A report released today by the National Audit Office has found that the clinical treatment and rehabilitation of service personnel seriously injured on military operations are highly effective. The report notes, however, that the rate of illness and minor injury among personnel on operations has almost doubled in three years. Military commanders, and the patients to […]
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Health Focus Spring 2009
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Contracted-out health and disability assessments
Published on:The Department for Work and Pensions has not yet achieved value for money in managing contracted-out health and disability assessments.
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Children in need of help or protection
Published on:The Department for Education recognised since 2010 that child protection services are not good enough but its subsequent response has not yet resulted in better outcomes. Spending on children’s social work, including on child protection, varies widely across England and is not related to quality. Neither the DfE nor authorities understand why spending varies.
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English devolution deals
Published on:Devolution deals to devolve power from central government to local areas in England offer opportunities to stimulate economic growth and reform public services for local users, but the arrangements are untested and government could do more to provide confidence that these deals will achieve the benefits intended
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Readying the NHS and adult social care in England for COVID-19
Published on:This report sets out the facts about government preparing the NHS and adult social care in England for COVID-19.
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Department of Health: Progress in improving stroke care
Published on:The Department of Health’s strategy for stroke care has increased the priority and awareness of the condition and started to improve patients’ care and outcomes, concludes a report by the National Audit Office published today. Actions taken since 2006 have improved the value for money of stroke care; but improvements have not been universal and […]
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Department of Health – Young people’s sexual health: the National Chlamydia Screening Programme
Published on:The delivery of the Government’s programme to control chlamydia infection in young people to date has not demonstrated value for money, a report by the National Audit Office found today. The Department of Health implemented the Programme in three phases. In 2008-09, six years after the Programme’s launch, testing levels were only just beginning to […]
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Support for vulnerable adolescents
Published on:This study examines whether government understands what is needed to effectively identify and support vulnerable adolescents who are at risk of avoidable adverse outcomes, and who may need costly government interventions if their needs are not addressed.
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Prescribing savings in 2008
Published on:In 2007 the National Audit Office reported that primary care trusts (PCTs) could save more than £200 million a year without compromising patient care if GPs prescribed cheaper, generic medicines. Keele University has now confirmed the NAO’s finding by calculating that almost £400 million has been saved by the Department of Health, the NHS and […]
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The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems
Published on:The rate at which electronic care records systems are being put in place across the NHS under the National Programme for IT is falling far below expectations and the core aim that every patient should have an electronic care record under the Programme will not now be achieved.
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NHS Pay Modernisation in England: Agenda for Change
Published on:According to a National Audit Office report, the NHS has successfully transferred 1.1 million NHS employees on to a new simplified pay system. Given the scale of the NHS this was a substantial task which the NHS, in partnership with the trade unions, achieved in a short timescale. There are some examples of NHS trusts […]
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The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination programme in England
Published on:This report evaluates the government’s COVID-19 vaccine programme focusing on events up to the end of October 2021.
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Services for people with rheumatoid arthritis
Published on:Too many people with rheumatoid arthritis are not being diagnosed or treated quickly enough, and some services for people with the disease are not coordinated enough, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office. Delay in treatment is detrimental to patients’ health, their quality of life and, with three quarters of people […]
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Improving productivity could release tens of billions for government priorities
Published on:Significant annual savings worth tens of billions of pounds are available through improving public sector productivity, the head of the NAO will say.
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Investigation into the management of PPE contracts
Published on:This investigation examines DHSC’s performance in managing PPE contracts. It is a factual account of what has happened since November 2020.