According to the SPSO News, the Ombudsman will lay a report regarding the National Health Service for Scotland as well as a report on 59 decisions on all the sectors under its remit before the Scottish Parliament.

New Brunswick’s Ombudsman released his Report into the Provincial Department of Environment’s Management of the Water Classification Program on Friday, August 15th

Nick Bennett was appointed Public Services Ombudsman for Wales on August 1^st 2014.

Ombudsman's Office of the Republic of Latvia has published translated (in English) Annual report on the year 2013.

For the first time ever, members of the public and service providers will be able to go online to see the types of complaints the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has investigated.

The new President of the Control Yuan (CY), Dr. Chang Po-ya, and the new CY Members took office on August 1.

On 14 August 2014, the Provincial Ombudsman of Sindh, Mr. Asad Ashraf Malik, met with the Secretary General of the IOI and member of the Austrian Ombudsman Board, Dr. Günther Kräuter, at the IOI’s headquarter office in Vienna, Austria.

Last week the media following Veterans’ issues focused attention on a chart released by Veterans Affairs Canada via social media on July 31. The chart shows the maximum benefits by rank of supports available to seriously injured Veterans.