Finance and efficiency

NHS agency spent £7m on ‘irregular’ payments to external contractors

By 2023-07-21T11:35:00

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NHS Digital spent more than £7m on consultants and external contractors without ministerial authorisation, with the organisation’s leadership acknowledging the payments were ‘irregular’.

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