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  1. Adult social care at a glance

    Report Value for money

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    This overview updates our report ‘Adult social care in England: an overview (2014)’, highlighting key trends, developments and system pressures.

  2. Dentistry in England

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    This memorandum has been prepared to support the Health and Social Care Committee’s Dentistry Services inquiry.

  3. The health and social care interface

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    This ‘think piece’ draws on our past work highlighting the barriers that prevent health and social care services working together effectively, examples of joint working and the move towards services centred on the needs of the individual, to inform the ongoing debate about the future of health and social care in England.

  13. Auditing government’s pandemic response

    Insight Opinion

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    Like governments around the world, ours has committed unprecedented amounts of public money to the fight against coronavirus. By the end of 2020, this reached £271 billion in the UK and will continue to increase. As the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office has been tracking the Government’s pandemic spending commitments, reporting […]

  14. Immigration: Skilled Worker visas

    Work in progress

    Spring 2025

    We will look at the Home Office’s approach to processing Skilled Worker visa applications and how it ensures compliance with visa requirements.

  15. Investigation into NHS spending on generic medicines in primary care

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    This investigation looks at the 2017-18 increase in NHS spending on certain generic medicines, possible causes of the price increases in the market for generic medicines, and how the Department of Health and Social Care responded to the price increases.

  16. Childhood obesity data visualisation

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    Last updated – 01 February 2021 About this tool  Childhood obesity is a worsening problem which successive governments have attempted to address.  The childhood obesity data visualisation is an exploratory tool.  It should enable users to identify avenues for local exploration, including potentially similar local areas to explore over time. This interactive data visualisation supports the National Audit Office report on Childhood Obesity which was published in September 2020.  The data we present […]

  17. Care Quality Commission regulating health and social care

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    Although the Commission has improved as an organisation, it needs to overcome some persistent issues with the timeliness of some of its regulation activities if it is to sustain further improvement.

  18. Digital transformation in the NHS

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    This report considers the readiness of the government to deliver its ambitions for digital transformation in the NHS in England.