Management consultants are charging the NHS up to £1,000 a day for advice, and the health service has no way of knowing whether it is getting value for its money, a report by MPs warns today.
More than £300m was spent on outside advisers last year and probably as much as £600m in 2005-06, according to the Commons health committee report.
The study dismisses the explanation provided by the chief executive of the NHS, David Nicholson, that collecting the information would involve wasteful interference and centralised “micromanaging” of expenditure.
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Read the BMA’s view.
Tags: Health Select Committee
