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NHS regulator Monitor spent 40 per cent of its budget on millions of pounds on advice from five big firms of private consultants in the last year, final figures reveal.
The contracts totalling ?7.8m include an ?interim fee? of ?1m for work by turnaround experts from Ernst & Young at the scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS trust.
Figures for 2012-13 show Monitor also paid PwC ?3m, McKinsey ?1.9m, KPMG ?1.1m and Deloitte ?800,000 from its ?19.5m budget.
Monitor?s heavy reliance on private sector finance and management consultants ? exposed by the Yorkshire Post in March ? has triggered renewed criticism of the regulator which has taken key new powers under the Government?s controversial NHS reforms.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...-spends-40-of-budget-on-consultants-1-5641667
The contracts totalling ?7.8m include an ?interim fee? of ?1m for work by turnaround experts from Ernst & Young at the scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS trust.
Figures for 2012-13 show Monitor also paid PwC ?3m, McKinsey ?1.9m, KPMG ?1.1m and Deloitte ?800,000 from its ?19.5m budget.
Monitor?s heavy reliance on private sector finance and management consultants ? exposed by the Yorkshire Post in March ? has triggered renewed criticism of the regulator which has taken key new powers under the Government?s controversial NHS reforms.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...-spends-40-of-budget-on-consultants-1-5641667