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Overview
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- Membership changes
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
  - The broader public sector context
- Implementing recommendations
- Leadership and workforce challenges
  - Leadership
  - Capacity and workforce challenges
    
    Financial leadership
    
    NHS workforce planning
- Governance and accountability
  - Weak challenge by boards
  - Financial information and reporting
  - Government support for sponsored bodies
  - Recruitment of board members
  - Independent assurance (including internal audit)
  - Restructuring and governance
  - Severance payments
- Data collection and evaluating outcomes
  - Data collection
  - Data and outcomes
  - Planning for outcomes
  - Outcomes-based budget process
- Managing major ICT projects and structural change
  - Managing ICT projects
  - IT skills
  - Managing major structural reform
  - Staff and public engagement
- Conclusions
- Membership changes
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Implementing recommendations
- Leadership and workforce challenges
- Governance and accountability
- Data collection and evaluating outcomes
- Managing major ICT projects and structural change
- Conclusions
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