NHS urgent and emergency care – a system under constant pressure

Since 2024, we have looked at how health boards and the ambulance service manage demand for urgent and emergency care, and how health boards and local authorities support timely discharge from hospital.

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Auditor General launches a revised code for auditors

The Auditor General for Wales has published a revised Code of Audit Practice, following a public consultation earlier this year.

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Future Audit Arrangements for Community and Town Councils in...

New report published

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Ambitious vision for Welsh Community Care Information System...

Implementation and roll-out is taking much longer and proving more costly than expected.

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£8m of fraud and overpayments detected in Wales through Nati...

Latest review uncovers extra £2.7m compared with previous round

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Can Wales cope with the financial impact of the pandemic on ...

We’ve published three pieces of work around Local Government finances in Wales

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Better Law Making: our latest think piece

Audit Wales looks at some of the challenges to legislative implementation

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COVID-19 has made Welsh NHS waiting list problems worse but ...

Ten key opportunities identified for how the NHS in Wales can restart and reset planned care systems following the pandemic.

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Clinical Coding is still not getting the profile it needs wi...

The current pandemic provides a real opportunity to raise the profile and secure improvements to a function that underpins the data upon which the NHS relies

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Seven-year hospital upgrade in North Wales cost over £60 mil...

Complex £171 million programme of asbestos removal and refurbishment at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd was completed successfully only a few months later than planned

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International lessons around COVID-19

We look at how other countries and their public bodies have dealt with the pandemic

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It’s all in the data…

We’ve published a new data tool and blog

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Public service leaders should give a higher priority to tack...

COVID-19 has illustrated that fraudsters appear the very instant an opportunity presents itself.

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Dancing to a new beat with COVID-19

We look at the next phase of public services’ response to the pandemic

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Avoiding a return to rough sleeping after the pandemic

Our research shows that the public sector was spending up to £210 million reacting to, rather than preventing, rough sleeping – this is a waste of money

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