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Good practice and case studies

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.
 
 
Somerset Primary Care Trust - Finance training
17 December 2009
The PCT's Finance Team created a comprehensive training programme for staff with a financial remit. This ensures that these staff are fully aware of their responsibilities and have the skills to ...
Salford Primary Care Trust - Business case template
17 December 2009
The PCT developed a Business Case template suite of documents for internal use. These documents assist managers and clinicians within the organisation to produce business cases.
Bristol Primary Care Trust - Programme budgeting
17 December 2009
The Trust used programme budgeting in 2008/09 to analyse how it invests its healthcare funding. The PCT analysed all of the money it spent in 2006/07, by major health condition and the key health ...
Somerset Primary Care Trust - Financial statements
17 December 2009
Somerset Primary Care Trust (PCT) re-engineered its approach to preparing financial statements and as a result, it now produces timely and accurately reports much more quickly, and in advance of the ...
Somerset Primary Care Trust - Financial reporting
17 December 2009
The PCT invests a considerable amount of time training the Finance team and budget users. This ensures that good financial reporting cascades throughout the organisation, resulting in improved data ...
Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust - Healthcare provision
17 December 2009
The PCT has significantly extended and upgraded local healthcare provision.
Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust - Workforce management
17 December 2009
The PCT created a workforce development team to ensure it employed people with the right skills, experience and qualifications.
Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust - Gateway process
17 December 2009
The PCT has introduced a Gateway process to support the introduction, testing and development of new services or innovations.
Salford Primary Care Trust - Practice based commissioning
17 December 2009
The Trust has developed a web based budgeting system to review Practice Based Commissioning. The system is used to monitor budgets, validation and claims management, and to produce reports on the ...
Islington PCT - Improving the health of the community - KLOE 2.1
15 November 2009
Partnership working between the PCT and local authority covering pooled budgets; partnership monitoring and reporting; and strategic needs assessments
Financial management
All 27 case studies in 'Financial management'
Financial reporting
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Financial standing
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Internal control
All 7 case studies in 'Internal control'
Value for money
All 18 case studies in 'Value for money'