King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Management Consultants

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money was spent by Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust on management consultants in each of the last five years; and whether his Department has undertaken any assessment on whether value for money was achieved by that expenditure.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 30th January 2018

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust advises that its total management consultancy spend between 2013/14 and 2017/18 totalled £24.074 million. This spend broken down over the last five years is as follows:

2017/18 (year to date: month 9): £1,699,000

2016/17: £4,632,000

2015/16: £10,548,000

2014/15: £2,088,000

2013/14: £5,107,000

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has used management consultants to support work relating to transformation, productivity and efficiency. Over the last five years the Trust has been supported by management consultants on a number of projects as part of its ongoing Cost Improvement Programme. These projects have made contributions to achieving savings and delivering productivity gains.

It is for local leaders, working together with NHS England and NHS Improvement, to make the best use of the funding that has been allocated to them.

Lord Bob Kerslake was appointed as Chair of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in April 2015 and resigned from the post in December 2017. Shortly after, in December 2017 the Trust was placed into Special Measures for Finance following serious concerns about its growing deficit.

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