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Scottish Borders Council has made steady progress as it continues to transform the way it delivers services. Working with other organisations will be key to the council achieving its ambitions for further changes.

A report by the Accounts Commission, Scotland’s local authority watchdog, says the council must have clear plans to enable it to deliver its ambitious programme of transformation. The programme, called Fit for 2024, aims to improve how the council is run and save £30 million within the next five years.

 

Our report on NHS in Scotland 2019 was published in October 2019. The Tableau visualisation below illustrates national performance, sickness and turnover rates, prescription volume and health board expenditure per head.

Scotland's NHS needs to refocus its priorities to speed up health and social care integration and system wide reform, says the public spending watchdog.

The health service continues to face growing pressure from a population that is living longer. More people were seen and treated on time in the last year and patient safety improved. But just two out of eight key waiting time standards were met as staff struggled to meet rising demand for care.

The Scottish Government has substantially reduced the value of £140 million-worth of loans and guarantees to private companies, says the public spending watchdog.

The 2018/19 audit of the government's consolidated accounts were unqualified and show that the overall budget of £36,915 million was underspent by £778 million.

Loans totalling £45m to Ferguson Marine Engineering Limited (FMEL) were reduced in value to nil at the end of the financial year due to the shipyard's financial difficulties. The government also reduced:

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