Audit Commission Archives

2 January 2007

The Audit Commission is to undertake a national programme of clinical coding audit in the NHS in England that will

19 September 2006

Misspelt electronic records can have serious effects. Daloni Carlisle looks at the results of a three-year initiative to test the

27 June 2006

A pilot scheme that detected nearly £1m of duplicate and fraudulent payments by the public sector has been extended to

3 March 2006

Clinical coders are coming under pressure to ‘upcode’ to maximise income under Payment by Results, a conference heard last week.

22 February 2006

St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system

1 November 2005

The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is

12 October 2005

NHS trusts must urgently invest in the financial and performance management and supporting information systems, the Audit Commission says in

28 September 2005

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of

22 July 2005

The Audit Commission has criticised "lack of attention to good governance" in a hospital trust that procured IT services from

28 June 2005

The Audit Commission and National Audit Office have warned that the National Programme for IT will be a new

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