Guide for Audit and Risk Committees on Financial Reporting and Management during COVID-19

Guide for Audit and Risk Committees on Financial Reporting and Management during COVID-19
NAO 24 June 2020

• This guide aims to help audit and risk committee members discharge their responsibilities in several different areas, and to examine the impacts on their organisations of the COVID-19 outbreak, including on: annual reports; financial reporting; the control environment; and regularity of expenditure.

Annual Reports - what good looks like

Good Practice from the Excellence in Reporting in the Public Sector Award
National Audit Office 26 March 2018

• This guide illustrates good practice examples across annual reports in both the public and private sector. It highlights examples of “what good looks like” in reporting on strategy, risk, operations, governance, success measures, financial performance, people factors, external factors and ensuring the report is understandable to its users.
• Read the associated blog Being honest: award-winning annual reports.

State of Care - annual assessment from CQC

State of Care
CQC 10 October 2017

• Annual assessment of health and social care in England. The report looks at the trends, highlights examples of good and outstanding care, and identifies factors that maintain high-quality care. 
• Includes an interactive map of ratings of hospitals, adult social care and GP services in England as at 31 July 2017

NHS England Annual Report and assessment of performance 2016/2017

NHS England Annual Report 2016/17
Department of Health 18 July 2017

NHS England: assessment of performance 2016 to 2017
NHS England 18 July 2017

• Annual assessment of NHS England against its mandate and business objectives for 2016 to 2017 regarding improve the quality of services, reduce inequalities, secure public involvement.

Guide to Annual Reporting on Patient and the Public Participation

A Guide to Annual Reporting on the Legal Duty to Involve Patients and the Public in Commissioning
NHS England July 2016

• The Guide sets out the organisations’ responsibilities to report on how they meet their legal duties to involve patients and the public in their work. 
• The guide includes useful tools, resources and good practice examples to support the development of annual reports. It also provides advice on making reports accessible and appealing.
• CCGs are advised to use the guide to inform their annual reporting processes for 2016/17

CCG Annual reporting guidance

CCG Annual Reporting Guidance 2013/14
NHS England, 27 March 2014

• CCGs are required to publish, as a single document, an Annual Report and Accounts in accordance with Directions issued by NHS England.This Guidance brings together the accounting requirements within the Manual for Accounts, the requirements for annual reporting for clinical commissioning groups and other matters into an easy to access reference document which includes specific terms and language relevant to CCGs.