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The BMA today (Thursday 4 June, 2009) welcomes the Health Select Committee’s
call for the government to gather central information on the cost to the NHS
of private management consultants.
In a speech yesterday, the chairman of the BMA’s Consultants Committee,
Dr Jonathan Fielden, called for private management consultants to be “ditched”
from the NHS. According to a recent estimate, the English NHS spent £350
million on independent management consultants last year.
Commenting on the Health Committee report, Dr Fielden says:
“This is hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money
that is yet to be shown to have benefited patient care. Particularly during
an economic crisis, the public has a right to know how its money is being
spent.
NHS staff already have widespread expertise and knowledge. The benefit
of management consultants - steeped in the ethos of the private sector - must
be questioned and needs to be justified.”
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