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THE overstretched NHS trust which ‘let down’ young victims of sexual abuse due to a lack of resources has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds using a public relations firm.
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for overseeing mental health services across Dorset, has spent nearly £650,000 of taxpayers’ cash using an external PR and marketing firm over the past six years.
Over the current financial year, the trust will spend more than £104,000 on services provided by Southampton-based Grayling PR.
Its total PR and marketing budget for the current year is £177,000, but that does not take into account the salaries of its internal communications staff.
And the woman responsible for its communications strategy, Nicola Plumb, who was employed by the trust in April this year, earns just shy of £100,000 a year – around £30,000 more than the county’s MPs and Police and Crime Commissioner.
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11...efends_use_of_public_cash_for___650K_PR_bill/
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for overseeing mental health services across Dorset, has spent nearly £650,000 of taxpayers’ cash using an external PR and marketing firm over the past six years.
Over the current financial year, the trust will spend more than £104,000 on services provided by Southampton-based Grayling PR.
Its total PR and marketing budget for the current year is £177,000, but that does not take into account the salaries of its internal communications staff.
And the woman responsible for its communications strategy, Nicola Plumb, who was employed by the trust in April this year, earns just shy of £100,000 a year – around £30,000 more than the county’s MPs and Police and Crime Commissioner.
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11...efends_use_of_public_cash_for___650K_PR_bill/