Health Services: Standards
(asked on 12th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many providers NHS Protect has quality assessed against fraud, bribery and corruption standards in each year since 2009-10; and how many such providers NHS Protect has found to be performing below those standards in each such year.
The NHS Protect quality assurance programme that measures compliance against standards became fully operational in 2014-15. Providers may be assessed against one or more of NHS Protect’s key principles for action (strategic governance; inform and involve; prevent and deter and hold to account).
The information for each year since 2014-15 is in the table.
Year | Total number assessed | Partial and non-compliance1: strategic governance | Partial and non-compliance1: inform and involve | Partial and non-compliance1: prevent and deter | Partial and non-compliance1: hold to account |
2014-15 | 52 | 1 | 22 | 17 | 25 |
2015-16 | 38 | 2 | 25 | 6 | 21 |
Note:
1 Partial-compliance with the standard means the effectiveness of work undertaken has not yet been evaluated or there is no reduction of the risk. There is therefore little or no evidence of outcomes. Non-compliance with the standard means a risk has been identified but no action has been taken to mitigate it, or the action taken is insufficient in scope.