As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Harrie Clemens writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Jodie Williams writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Sarah Liddell writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
As part of our graduate recruitment campaign, we asked some of our current trainees to blog about why they first applied and what life is like on the Wales Audit Office graduate programme. Here, Jennie Morris writes about her personal reflections. To find out more about the scheme, and how to apply, please visit our…
Confused? It’s no wonder why. Out-of-hours services have a branding nightmare. Other names for these services include: GP out-of-hours services; primary care out-of-hours services; and urgent primary care services. Whatever you call them, they are really important services. They provide urgent primary care during the time that GP surgeries are closed. Our latest report has…
Claire Flood-Page tells us more about our Speak My Language report. We look at the consequences of not making services accessible to all. In a recent court case, an NHS Trust in England will have to pay millions of pounds in compensation [opens in a new window] after a baby was left severely brain-damaged[1]. The…
A GREAT place to work! This isn’t just a glib strapline – it is a real commitment to everyone that works here at the Wales Audit Office and everyone who wants to work here. We are not all robots; we’re a team of over 250 unique, individual people. We each have different motivators, different likes…
Rachel Harries, tells us more about the ways technology can improve NHS services and our report Informatics Systems in NHS Wales says it can do better The white heat of modern technology has transformed the way we live in many ways, including advances in medical care, but if we consider how that care is delivered,…
With winter fast approaching, our long and busy summer spent engaging with rural communities all over Wales feels like an increasingly distant memory. As auditors it’s not often we get the chance to get out there and hear from citizens about the things that matter to them. But this year we’ve done just that, by…
Seth Newman talks more about our recent review [opens in new window] of the Welsh Government’s Supporting People Programme (the Programme). He looks at the difficulties in trying to evaluate the Programme and other preventative programmes like it. Supporting People [opens in new window], introduced in 2003, helps a wide range of vulnerable people by…
Duncan Mackenzie, Performance Auditor, tells us more about the calls for evidence he and the Local Government Studies team undertook recently to inform their 2018-19 studies and why they are important for our work. In the world of audit, opinions matter. The cliché exists that auditing is just about crunching numbers, but in reality they…
