By Cara Sulieman
A SCOTTISH health quango has back-tracked on plans to hire an external public relations company after coming under fire from politicians.
NHS Health Scotland put out a tender worth £120,000 for a “public affairs agency” to help them get their message across at parliament.
But last week Labour MSP Richard Baker called for Audit Scotland to investigate the contract as he thought it was a waste of public money.
He said that ministers needed to “make sure they are getting their priorities right” and questioned the value for money of the contract.
And now the quango – responsible for organising national health campaigns – has cancelled the contract, saying very little about their decision only that they had decided to do it themselves.
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