Publications

Scottish Water has made a good start in raising the water industry's performance but can make further improvements, says this Audit Scotland report.

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 looks at how councils deal with requests for services and information from their customers, including taxpayers and business contacts.

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