Pulse report:

GP commissioners are shunning management consultants and have dramatically cut NHS spending on external support since CCGs assumed full budgetary responsibility in April, a Pulse investigation reveals.

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from 141 CCGs across England show an accumulated spend of £5.66m since April on consultancy firms such as McKinsey & Company, PwC, KPMG and Capita – an average of £42,300 per CCG.

Extrapolated across all 212 CCGs, the investigation suggests that just under £9m has been spent across England so far, a sharp reduction on the estimated £26m spent by PCTs between April 2012 and December 2012.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.