Niche Health and Social Care Consulting: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

(asked on 30th August 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on (a) fees and (b) other costs for work by Niche Health and Social Care Consulting in relation to urology services at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust in (a) 2019/20, (b) 2020/21 and (c) 2021/22.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th September 2024

The following table shows how much NHS England spent on fees and other costs for work by Niche Health and Social Care Consulting, in relation to urology services at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMB), in 2019/20, 2020/21, and 2021/22:

Activity commissioned

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

Fees

VAT

Fees

VAT

Fees

VAT

Independent investigation into urology services at UHMB

£58,870.15

£11,774.04

£541,812.75

£108,362.58

£335,690.66

£67,138.13

Reticulating Splines