NHS spent £300 million on consultancy services

Figures have shown that the NHS spent £300 million last year on the use of consultancy services.

In response to these figures the new health secretary has said that he is ‘staggered’ by the amount which was spent on management consultancies and has promised to deal with the issue.

He has said the reforms which he is introducing will ‘root out unnecessary bureaucracy...

Staffordshire NHS trusts spent over £4 million on management consultants

A local newspaper investigation has found that NHS North Staffordshire has spent £2.2 million on management consultants over the period 2009-2010.

This spending has been questioned by local union representatives, with Geoff Wilson, of the North Staffordshire community health branch of Unison, telling The Sentinel newspaper: “Surely there is enough ability and expertise within the PCTs' own staff to do most of this work...