National Audit Office, July 2013
- This report examines how the Department of Health and the NHS implemented the transition from the existing to the reformed health system. It builds the NAO National Health Service Landscape Review (2011) which outlined the key changes that the government proposed to make.
- "The Department of Health and the NHS faced major challenges in implementing the reforms by 1 April 2013. The reforms are regarded as the most wide-ranging and complex since the NHS was created. More than 170 organisations have been closed and more than 240 new bodies created.
- The reforms are reported to have cost £1.1 billion to 31 March 2013, 15 per cent more than expected at this point. The Department is confident that total costs will not exceed £1.7 billion. The estimated costs are outweighed by the estimated savings in administration costs arising from the reforms."
- Read the analysis in Public Finance here.
