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We audit NHS trusts, PCTs and strategic health authorities to review the quality of their financial systems. We also provide services to foundation trusts and those aspiring to become foundation trusts through our Trust Practice.

We publish independent reports highlighting risks and good practice to improve the quality of financial management in the health service and encourage continual improvement in public services including public health and health inequalities.
 
 
Healthy balance
A review of public health performance and spending
11 March 2010
This briefing estimates that £21 billion of NHS funds has been allocated in 2009/10 on the basis of health inequalities. Despite the health of the nation improving overall, health inequalities has proved a stubborn area to address.
 
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10 March 2010
The Codes of Audit Practice (the Codes) define the scope, nature and extent of local audit work.
24 February 2010
This report looks at the findings from the first year of Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA). It is published by the six inspectorates responsible for assessing local public services in England.
18 February 2010
Since 1996 the Audit Commission has run the National Fraud Initiative (NFI), a sophisticated data matching exercise which matches electronic data within and between participating audited bodies to prevent and detect fraud.
28 January 2010
We reviewed accident and emergency (A&E) data for Payment by Results (PbR) purposes in eight acute trusts to see if we should extend the PbR data assurance framework to cover A&E activity.
28 January 2010
We launched a consultation on the Payment by Results (PbR) data assurance framework for 2010/11 onwards in autumn 2009. We have now published the response to this consultation, PbR data assurance framework: response to consultation feedback
9 December 2009
Oneplace, the reporting website for Comprehensive Area Assessment, is now live. The site includes independent information about how councils, police, health services and others are tackling the major issues in every area in England.
Row of medical records
11 November 2009
Key lines of enquiry (KLOEs) are detailed questions that help to inform our auditors' judgements when assessing the financial performance of NHS trusts.
12 May 2009
The Audit Commission's Trust Practice is the preferred provider of external audit and related professional services to foundation trusts and those aspiring to become foundation trusts.
 

All information for health

We audit NHS trusts, PCTs and strategic health authorities to review the quality of their financial systems and we work with foundation trusts.

This section contains examples of notable practice in health, covering the Auditors' Local Evaluation of NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England, and the use of the Commission's National Benchmarker by the NHS.

The health national studies programme aims to improve local public services through its independent authoritative analysis of national evidence and local practice. Its remit covers NHS financial management issues

In this section, you can add a Health RSS feed to your newsreader, read published Health newsletters and subscribe/unsubscribe to future editions of newsletters.

We aim to improve the quality of financial management in the NHS and encourage continual improvement in public services.

The Audit Commission's Trust Practice is the preferred provider of external audit and related professional services to foundation trusts and those aspiring to become foundation trusts.

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