The Scottish Government has lost a two-year fight to conceal the work of a private consultancy firm paid £550,000 in taxpayers' money to advise on the botched National Care Service (NCS). Documents released to Common Weal and seen by the Herald on Sunday raise questions over the tender, with one MSP saying the money has seemingly only paid for a "handful of slides." There are demands for ministers come to parliament to make a statement.
The row comes as the Scottish Government insist they are still committed to the reform, despite postponing the parliamentary progress of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. READ MORE SNP mothballs flagship National Care Service Cost of consultants on SNP's flagship National Care Service tops £2m Over 5,000 Scots waiting for NHS social care assessment KPMG won a £545,000 contract to help develop the NCS in December 2021. They were tasked with " producing a Programme Business Case and Operating Models.
" As part of that, they had to produce a paper detailing the Current Operating Model (COM) showing the situation in care as it is, and the Target Operating Model (TOM) setting out how the NCS could work. Following the contract award, Nick Kempe, convener of the Common Weal Care Reform Group, submitted a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to try and better understand the decision-making process behind the award, the work being carried out, and the final products of the firm's work. The Scottish Government initially refused to .