Health written question – answered at on 15 April 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what the cost of the NHS Next Stage Review was for (a) commissioning reports and other evidence, (b) staff salaries, (c) administration, (d) publication, (e) other and (f) in total;
(2) pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2013, Official Report, column 794W, on NHS reorganisation, which officials in his Department signed off the expenditure of (a) $162,000 on Quality Oversight in England by Joint Commission International, (b) $319,000 on Achieving the Vision of Excellence in Quality by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and (c) $170,000 on Developing, Disseminating and Assessing Standards in the National Health Service by RAND; and what the date of the sign-off was in each case.
The reports were commissioned by the then chief medical officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, as part of the wider NHS Next Stage Review. All departmental expenditure is authorised in line with existing controls, and audited by the National Audit Office.
Available information about the costs of the Review were set out by the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Ann Keen), on
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