The digital body, which provides data and IT systems for the NHS, handed over 15% of its yearly budget to Accenture, with contracts worth around £33 million out of its total £218 million operating expenditure, according to its own 2018-2019 accounts.
Former chair Noel Gordon and non-executive director Daniel Benton both held senior positions at Accenture and, according to the same financial report, also owned shares in the consultancy firm.
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What s more, the family of another non-executive, Deborah Oakley, is also listed as owning shares in Accenture, according to a Declarations and Conflicts of Interest Register that was published on 30 June last year. Oakley has said the shares were held by her husband and she herself has never worked at the consultancy. However, the large sums of publ