Publications

Recent years have seen an increase in the number and complexity of medicines available to treat patients and in the types of staff who can prescribe them.

In an innovative project, Audit Scotland has worked with the NHS board and three councils that make up the Tayside Partnership to share an understanding of h

This report highlights that solving the problem of delayed discharges needs action across all parts of the health and community care system.

This report says that, whilst progress has been made since 2001, NHS boards and hospitals are still not managing hospital waste as well as they could.

Scotland's councils are maintaining good financial controls, but scope remains for improving the work of audit committees and budget monitoring, while the inten

NHS Scotland provides most bowel cancer patients with treatment in line with clinical standards, but waiting times must be improved and more staff trained to ca

These performance indicators show that in 2003/04 Scottish councils improved in a number of key areas.

The Auditor General, Robert Black, has said there is a need to improve long-term financial planning to help ensure that the large sums of money going into the N