NHS Lothian previously spent more than £1 million sending senior staff to the prestigious university's business school.
Chiefs at the troubled board then signed another contract, worth almost £600,000, with Harvard in the belief they could get health executives from elsewhere in Scotland to take the course. But only a handful signed up for the trip to Massachusetts, forcing NHS Lothian to scrap the contract and pay a £71,471 cancellation fee.
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