This list
represents the dire state of our democracy. The financial and vested interests
of our MPs and Lords in private healthcare.
Over 200 parliamentarians have recent past or present financial links to companies involved in healthcare and all were allowed to vote on the Health and Social Care bill, turning it into an Act.
Who cares that they have put it in the register of interests. This doesn’t excuse their interests, it merely highlights clearly why they should have no part in voting for what is fast becoming the dismantling of the NHS. It is privatisation, despite the media’s continued use of the word ‘reforms’. The question must be asked. Are they public servants or corporate servants?
Over 200 parliamentarians have recent past or present financial links to companies involved in healthcare and all were allowed to vote on the Health and Social Care bill, turning it into an Act.
Who cares that they have put it in the register of interests. This doesn’t excuse their interests, it merely highlights clearly why they should have no part in voting for what is fast becoming the dismantling of the NHS. It is privatisation, despite the media’s continued use of the word ‘reforms’. The question must be asked. Are they public servants or corporate servants?
Note this research is up-to-date as of May 2013: The MPs are up-to-date as of February 2013. Since then two Lords have died, but a few others have been added with (New) next to their name. This means that the current number of Lords with these interests stands at 147 Lords with these interests. The total list of MPs with these interests is 73, meaning over 200 parliamentarians have recent past or present financial interests in companies or individuals involved in private healthcare.
Note: Anyone using this research please cite this as the original source. There have been a few mainstream articles now where it has been mentioned without saying where it has come from. Bad form.
The list is long, I make no apology for that, tragically that is the reality of our politics today; and although the majority of vested interest lies with the Conservatives, as you might expect, it is however a cross party issue. It is compiled from accessible and trusted sources throughout the Internet. If you think someone should not be on here, then please say with reason and then they may come off if justified. I say this because the interests are varied, some have shares in a company involved in healthcare, they won't influence the company in terms of investment, but should someone who has shares in a company be able to vote on a bill that may improve their share price?
Others have received donations to fund their office, others have taken a gift or some are advisors, chairman, owners or ex-employees who as you will see by the entry under Margot James and her quote, she is still attached to her recent past.
The debate over whether these interests are acceptable is yet to be held properly, and for the large part it will not stop unless they are stopped. They do not listen to the public, the NHS is not something this government cherishes but is just another public owned service that the financial elite wish to get their hands on. For years the NHS has been developed by us the public and now they want it for themselves. The time has surely come to protest in large numbers and for the union members to ask their leaders to call for a strike. You can help apply pressure by spreading this out on twitter. It is already gone quite viral, but can go wider still.
I start with the Lords, some (about 40) of which were taken from the Daily Mirror research: These are also available in the register of interests, and some from my own research.
An e-petition has been set up which is here - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44971 - if you can please sign it to stop Lords voting on their own interests, this would go some way to prevent their behaviour.
1 in four Conservative Peers have financial interests in companies involved in private healthcare. 1 in 6 Labour Peers. 1 in 6 Crossbench Peers and 1 in 10 Liberal Democratic Peers. Of the MPs, 78% are Conservatives who have these interests. Should they have these connections?
Conservative Lords
1. Lord Ashcroft: Conservative benches and funder - Until 2010, held investments in two private healthcare groups. From his website 'Other business interests include significant investments in healthcare.' In 2010 bought a 34% stake in The Priory for £44m.
Also From his website at the bottom of the news:
New Businesses: Recent investments by Michael Ashcroft include stakes in: Digital Marketing Group: a multi-media electronic marketing group of companies, who through Jaywing, the data division of the Digital Marketing Group, who were appointed to work with with the NHS Supply Chain on sales and marketing communications. Digital Marketing
Group has changed its name to WEARE 2020 PLC.
Donations: Lord Ashcroft has donated £112,726.09 to Conservative Central party between 2001/02 and £3,200 to Liam Fox in 2006.
Lord Ashcroft has given the party more than £4.3m since 2006. Ashcroft has donated over £10 million to the Tory party according to the BBC.
2. Lord Ashton - Conservative - Shares in Marsh Inc insurance brokers and in Zurich Financial Services AG - In a review for the Department of Health of the NHS litigation Authority - written by Marsh Inc, it recommended involving opening up clinical negligence cover over to private insurers. Zurich Financial Insurers said they didn't have the expertise but the Marsh review envisaged opening up a dialogue which might eventually give them the information they needed. The DoH unsurprisingly accepted the large majority of Marsh's recommendations. Lord Ashton also has shares in a private dental company called Smilepod Hygiene Ltd.
3. Lord Bell: Conservative - Chairman of Chime Communications Group, whose companies include Bell Pottinger, and whose lobbying clients include Southern Cross, BT Health and AstraZeneca. Tim Bell has a conviction for ‘wilfuly, openly and obscenely’ exposing himself ‘with intent to insult a female’ under Section 4 of the 1824 Vagrancy Act. For more on this delightful personality, which bears little relevance to the NHS but says so much about the character click here. If that isn't enough then please click here to see their attempts to work with the Ubekistan dictatorship.
These are the following health-related companies within Chime Communications Group:
Open Health: PR for the healthcare sector.
Open LEC: Healthcare Advertising and Marketing Services, the creative, advertising & brand communication practice within OPEN Health. Campaigns for Lipitor, Losec, Vioxx, Aricept, Symbicort, Atripla and Prozac. Healthcare brand development, advertising, promotional materials, brand revitalisation and digital.
Open Minds: Advertising and Marketing Services in the healthcare sector.
Open Plan: Global Healthcare market research and brand planning.
Reynolds Mackenzie: Advertising and Marketing Services Division who's clients include the pharmaceutical industry.
VCCP Health: Advertising and Marketing Services
Donations: Bell Pottinger has given £56,980 to the Conservative party between 2008 and 2012 and £2,500 to the Labour party to Rhondda CLP. In 2001, Lord Timothy Bell gave £2,500 to Michael Portillo. Chime Communications PLC gave £15,000 to Nick Herbert in 2008.
Quote: ”As a diversified communications group we see healthcare as an attractive sector in which we wish to compete strongly. The acquisition of SCL strengthens our recently established healthcare practice OPEN Health still further.” - on the acquistion of the Succint Communications Ltd company
Quote: "My message to the Labour Government is: stop accusing the Conservatives of wanting to privatise the NHS--we do not" - House of Lords debate on the NHS Feb 2000
4. Lord Blackwell: Conservatives - Chairman of Interserve, consultancy to NHS and private healthcare firms. Involved in PFI hospitals. Head of the Prime Minister's policy unit under John Major from 1995 to 1997 and was previously a member of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit. Was a partner with McKinsey and Company (involved in NHS bill between 1978 and 1994. Interserve recently won a place on the Welsh Government: Designed for Life supply programme covering the entirety of NHS Wales.
Quotes on bill: We are now 10 years further on from that and it is important that the changes are not lost in the voices that will always oppose changes that are necessary to reform the way that the NHS works. I hope that, while listening to those voices, the Minister can assure us that these essential reforms will be carried through and that the period of uncertainty for the NHS will not be any longer than it needs to be before we can get to the kind of reformed NHS that we all want to see.
Further quote:"The funding of healthcare must also be liberalised"
5. Lord Blyth of Rowington: Conservative - Senior adviser to investment bankers Greenhill, who have considerable transaction experience and a global network of corporate relationships in the Healthcare sector. Former Boots Chemists deputy chairman. Tory Donor. Stands to gain from the break up and privatisation of the NHS wants and would surely like to buy the Walk in Centres at an agreed cut-price with Cameron.
Donations: £39,950 to Conservative Central party on years 2007/09/10
6. Lord Boswell - Conservative - Has shares in Reckitt Benckiser which produces drugs for the NHS amongst other health institutions. NHS is currently suing Reckitt Benckiser for £90 million following an investigation that ruled the company had abused its dominant position in the heartburn market. The company has just paid a fine for £10.2 million in 2010 following a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading which found them guilty of illegal anti-compative behaviour relating to their heartburn product Gaviscon. Lord Boswell's shares have in brackets household part of the company, but in the end it is the same company. He also has shares in GlaxoSmithKline PLC pharmaceuticals.
7. Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone: Conservative - The former Conservative Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is a Director of BUPA, the health insurance, private hospital and care group. Chair of Odgers Berndtson - recruitment company providing people for NHS Management positions. Shares in Broomco Ltd, which is a holding company of International Resources Group Ltd, which owns Odgers Berndston.
Board member of Akzo Nobel a multi-national company that specialises in paints and speciality chemicals. Akzo Nobel is listed in the NHS purchasing directory as decoration suppliers. Their tentacles reach into the NHS in other ways. Paul Kenderick the interim chairman of Newham University hospital was an employee of Akzo Nobel. Within the NHS he was for a number of years an Independent Special Advisor to the Healthcare Purchasing Consortium, providing purchasing, supply chain and commercial services to trusts. It is not suggested Mr Kenderick preferred his ex-employer when making purchases but such conflict of interests will become of increasing relevance in the new NHS.
Baroness Bottomley is a Member of the International Advisory Board for Tokyo-based Chugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, which researches biotechnology products. The company offers trials promoted through the NHS, as well as representing NHS South-West APBI last year on a discussion on improving ‘existing methods of communication between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.
Quotes on bill: 'I give this Bill an unequivocal and extraordinarily warm welcome.'
'It is romantic poppycock to think that the Secretary of State should be personally involved ...'
Donations: Bupa UK gave £4,512.76 to Conservative MP, Mark Simmonds, for a 'fact finding visit'. Accepted 27/03/2009
Richard Boggis-Rolfe the chairman of Odgers Berndtson has given £207,500 in donations to the Conservative party between 28/09/2006 to 03/03/2010.
8. Lord Brittan - Conservative - Advisor to Teijin who are a conglomerate of global companies. One part of the business is the medical and pharmaceutical business group. Teijin Home Healthcare Limited supply products to the NHS and Teijin Pharma Ltd provides pharmaceuticals to the NHS.
9. Baroness Byford - Conservative - has shares in Reckitt Benckiser (personal care). which produces drugs for the NHS amongst other health institutions. NHS is currently suing Reckitt Benckiser for £90 million following an investigation that ruled the company had abused its dominant position in the heartburn market. The company has just paid a fine for £10.2 million in 2010 following a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading which found them guilty of illegal anti-compative behaviour relating to their heartburn product Gaviscon.
Shares in GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals which supply the NHS. Shares in Uniliver plc (domestic products) Unilever whose European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company. Shares in Croda International plc which has a health division which products and has extensive links with the NHS.
10. Lord Carington - Conservative - has shares in GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals, suppliers to the NHS. shares in Unilever plc. Unilever has a European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company.
11. Lord Chadlington: Conservative - Chief executive of Huntsworth communications group with several lobbying firms. One of the firms, Citigate Dewe Rogerson operates in a number of healthcare markets including provider, retail, and pharmaceutical. Another of the group, Grayling, work with both the NHS and private healthcare. Huntsworth Health, which itself is a group of agencies who chaired a meeting on commissioning on behalf of Healthcare Communications Association, a group whose members consist of PR agencies and pharmaceutical companies. The company claims to have expertise in 'market access, brand development and public relations.' Another of their group are called 'Red', who claim to offer 'ethical healthcare' pr.
Donations: Huntsworth has given £45,600 to the Conservative party in total during the years 2008/09/10/11 - Chadlington and his wife have given £80,823.91 of which £44,700 went to the Central party - £21,623 went to David Cameron's office in Witney. £4,500 went to Michael Howard's leadership campaign and £10,000 to Cameron's leadership campaign. See article on him here.
12. Lord Coe: Conservative - In February 2011 became Director of AMT-Sybex Group, IT supplier to the NHS. Same company that paid for a trip of former MP Robert Keys. William Hague is listed as a director in 2008, and former Tory Mayoral candidate for London Steve Norris is listed as their chairman.
13. Baroness Cumberlege of Newick: Conservative - Former Tory health minister, runs Cumberlege Connections, a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry. Used to be non-excutive director of PR firm for healthcare huntsworth PLC, of which Lord Chadlington is Chief Executive. Former executive director of healthcare consulting firm MJM healthcare solutions. Chair of the All parliamentary Health Group, patron of the think tank 2020health.org. Has made money from offering courses to the new CCGs. £1,200 +VAT for a one-day course for Horsham and Mid-Sussex and Hastings and Rother CCGs. Paid £12,896 from NHS South-Eastern Hampshire and NHS Fareham and Gosport CCGs via a bursary from NHS South-Central SHA for one-day course on 'Understanding Politics Masterclass.'
Quotes on bill: 'I applaud the flexibility of the Bill.'
14. Lord Deighton: (New) Conservative - Shares in Synergy Pharmaceuticals, Inc - a biotechnology company.
15. Lord Dixon-Smith - Conservative - has shares in Vodafone group plc - Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
16. Baroness Eccles - Conservative - Has shares in GlaxoSmithKline (Healthcare) - GlaxoSmith Kline. GSK is the UK's leading supplier of COPD medicines.
Quote on the bill. 'My Lords, I am delighted to support this bill.' 'I hope that this bill will initiate a sea change in the way that we approach the nation's health...'
17. Lord Edmiston - Conservative - Shareholdings in Bupa Finance plc - a Bupa director is Baroness Bottomley - Bupa provides health insurance, private hospital and care group in direct competition with the NHS. Shares in Fidelity International Ltd, which acquired Telehealth Solutions Ltd in 2011 - Telehealth have partners in the NHS and private healthcare - and has several contracts with the NHS. Has won award for work in the NHS and telehealthcare is promoted by Andrew Lansley.
18. Lord Feldman of Elstree - Conservative - Shares in BTG pharmaceuticals - BGT are a UK company that manages commercialisation activity in pharmaceuticals. BTG acquired Biocompatiibles in 2010. Biocompatibles supplies medical devices.
19. Lord Feldman - Conservative - Shares in Inverness Medical, now Alere, a global healthcare company who work with many PCTs including the 'healthcheck programme.'
Donations: In 2005, gave £11,300 to Conservative Central party. Also in 2005, Lord Feldman of Frognal gave £11,643 to former Conservative MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Collins. Mr Collins is now managing director of Bell Pottinger, and was secretly recorded talking about the 'dark arts' the company used.
20. Lord Fink - Conservative - Director of multiple companies including: The Global PR network Ltd, which covers the health and medical sector, in which he has shares. Chairman and Director of Zenith hygiene Group plc, an approved NHS supplier. Shares run independently by Lombard Odier the company in charge of his share portfolio include: Abbott Laboratories ltd (pharmaceuticals), Allianz SE, which offers medical insurance, Prudential plc, which offers private health insurance, Siemens AG, which supplies medical equipment to the NHS, Vodafone group.
21. Lord Flight – Conservative - director of Investec Asset Management – Investec Asset Management is a specialist provider of investment products and services. Their clients include healthcare and some of the world’s largest private and public sector pension funds, insurers and corporates, and range from foundations and central banks to intermediated and direct investors. Voted with the government on all key divisions of the Health and Social Care bill.
1. Lord Ashcroft: Conservative benches and funder - Until 2010, held investments in two private healthcare groups. From his website 'Other business interests include significant investments in healthcare.' In 2010 bought a 34% stake in The Priory for £44m.
Also From his website at the bottom of the news:
New Businesses: Recent investments by Michael Ashcroft include stakes in: Digital Marketing Group: a multi-media electronic marketing group of companies, who through Jaywing, the data division of the Digital Marketing Group, who were appointed to work with with the NHS Supply Chain on sales and marketing communications. Digital Marketing
Group has changed its name to WEARE 2020 PLC.
Donations: Lord Ashcroft has donated £112,726.09 to Conservative Central party between 2001/02 and £3,200 to Liam Fox in 2006.
Lord Ashcroft has given the party more than £4.3m since 2006. Ashcroft has donated over £10 million to the Tory party according to the BBC.
2. Lord Ashton - Conservative - Shares in Marsh Inc insurance brokers and in Zurich Financial Services AG - In a review for the Department of Health of the NHS litigation Authority - written by Marsh Inc, it recommended involving opening up clinical negligence cover over to private insurers. Zurich Financial Insurers said they didn't have the expertise but the Marsh review envisaged opening up a dialogue which might eventually give them the information they needed. The DoH unsurprisingly accepted the large majority of Marsh's recommendations. Lord Ashton also has shares in a private dental company called Smilepod Hygiene Ltd.
3. Lord Bell: Conservative - Chairman of Chime Communications Group, whose companies include Bell Pottinger, and whose lobbying clients include Southern Cross, BT Health and AstraZeneca. Tim Bell has a conviction for ‘wilfuly, openly and obscenely’ exposing himself ‘with intent to insult a female’ under Section 4 of the 1824 Vagrancy Act. For more on this delightful personality, which bears little relevance to the NHS but says so much about the character click here. If that isn't enough then please click here to see their attempts to work with the Ubekistan dictatorship.
These are the following health-related companies within Chime Communications Group:
Open Health: PR for the healthcare sector.
Open LEC: Healthcare Advertising and Marketing Services, the creative, advertising & brand communication practice within OPEN Health. Campaigns for Lipitor, Losec, Vioxx, Aricept, Symbicort, Atripla and Prozac. Healthcare brand development, advertising, promotional materials, brand revitalisation and digital.
Open Minds: Advertising and Marketing Services in the healthcare sector.
Open Plan: Global Healthcare market research and brand planning.
Reynolds Mackenzie: Advertising and Marketing Services Division who's clients include the pharmaceutical industry.
VCCP Health: Advertising and Marketing Services
Donations: Bell Pottinger has given £56,980 to the Conservative party between 2008 and 2012 and £2,500 to the Labour party to Rhondda CLP. In 2001, Lord Timothy Bell gave £2,500 to Michael Portillo. Chime Communications PLC gave £15,000 to Nick Herbert in 2008.
Quote: ”As a diversified communications group we see healthcare as an attractive sector in which we wish to compete strongly. The acquisition of SCL strengthens our recently established healthcare practice OPEN Health still further.” - on the acquistion of the Succint Communications Ltd company
Quote: "My message to the Labour Government is: stop accusing the Conservatives of wanting to privatise the NHS--we do not" - House of Lords debate on the NHS Feb 2000
4. Lord Blackwell: Conservatives - Chairman of Interserve, consultancy to NHS and private healthcare firms. Involved in PFI hospitals. Head of the Prime Minister's policy unit under John Major from 1995 to 1997 and was previously a member of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit. Was a partner with McKinsey and Company (involved in NHS bill between 1978 and 1994. Interserve recently won a place on the Welsh Government: Designed for Life supply programme covering the entirety of NHS Wales.
Quotes on bill: We are now 10 years further on from that and it is important that the changes are not lost in the voices that will always oppose changes that are necessary to reform the way that the NHS works. I hope that, while listening to those voices, the Minister can assure us that these essential reforms will be carried through and that the period of uncertainty for the NHS will not be any longer than it needs to be before we can get to the kind of reformed NHS that we all want to see.
Further quote:"The funding of healthcare must also be liberalised"
5. Lord Blyth of Rowington: Conservative - Senior adviser to investment bankers Greenhill, who have considerable transaction experience and a global network of corporate relationships in the Healthcare sector. Former Boots Chemists deputy chairman. Tory Donor. Stands to gain from the break up and privatisation of the NHS wants and would surely like to buy the Walk in Centres at an agreed cut-price with Cameron.
Donations: £39,950 to Conservative Central party on years 2007/09/10
6. Lord Boswell - Conservative - Has shares in Reckitt Benckiser which produces drugs for the NHS amongst other health institutions. NHS is currently suing Reckitt Benckiser for £90 million following an investigation that ruled the company had abused its dominant position in the heartburn market. The company has just paid a fine for £10.2 million in 2010 following a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading which found them guilty of illegal anti-compative behaviour relating to their heartburn product Gaviscon. Lord Boswell's shares have in brackets household part of the company, but in the end it is the same company. He also has shares in GlaxoSmithKline PLC pharmaceuticals.
7. Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone: Conservative - The former Conservative Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is a Director of BUPA, the health insurance, private hospital and care group. Chair of Odgers Berndtson - recruitment company providing people for NHS Management positions. Shares in Broomco Ltd, which is a holding company of International Resources Group Ltd, which owns Odgers Berndston.
Board member of Akzo Nobel a multi-national company that specialises in paints and speciality chemicals. Akzo Nobel is listed in the NHS purchasing directory as decoration suppliers. Their tentacles reach into the NHS in other ways. Paul Kenderick the interim chairman of Newham University hospital was an employee of Akzo Nobel. Within the NHS he was for a number of years an Independent Special Advisor to the Healthcare Purchasing Consortium, providing purchasing, supply chain and commercial services to trusts. It is not suggested Mr Kenderick preferred his ex-employer when making purchases but such conflict of interests will become of increasing relevance in the new NHS.
Baroness Bottomley is a Member of the International Advisory Board for Tokyo-based Chugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, which researches biotechnology products. The company offers trials promoted through the NHS, as well as representing NHS South-West APBI last year on a discussion on improving ‘existing methods of communication between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.
Quotes on bill: 'I give this Bill an unequivocal and extraordinarily warm welcome.'
'It is romantic poppycock to think that the Secretary of State should be personally involved ...'
Donations: Bupa UK gave £4,512.76 to Conservative MP, Mark Simmonds, for a 'fact finding visit'. Accepted 27/03/2009
Richard Boggis-Rolfe the chairman of Odgers Berndtson has given £207,500 in donations to the Conservative party between 28/09/2006 to 03/03/2010.
8. Lord Brittan - Conservative - Advisor to Teijin who are a conglomerate of global companies. One part of the business is the medical and pharmaceutical business group. Teijin Home Healthcare Limited supply products to the NHS and Teijin Pharma Ltd provides pharmaceuticals to the NHS.
9. Baroness Byford - Conservative - has shares in Reckitt Benckiser (personal care). which produces drugs for the NHS amongst other health institutions. NHS is currently suing Reckitt Benckiser for £90 million following an investigation that ruled the company had abused its dominant position in the heartburn market. The company has just paid a fine for £10.2 million in 2010 following a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading which found them guilty of illegal anti-compative behaviour relating to their heartburn product Gaviscon.
Shares in GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals which supply the NHS. Shares in Uniliver plc (domestic products) Unilever whose European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company. Shares in Croda International plc which has a health division which products and has extensive links with the NHS.
10. Lord Carington - Conservative - has shares in GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals, suppliers to the NHS. shares in Unilever plc. Unilever has a European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company.
11. Lord Chadlington: Conservative - Chief executive of Huntsworth communications group with several lobbying firms. One of the firms, Citigate Dewe Rogerson operates in a number of healthcare markets including provider, retail, and pharmaceutical. Another of the group, Grayling, work with both the NHS and private healthcare. Huntsworth Health, which itself is a group of agencies who chaired a meeting on commissioning on behalf of Healthcare Communications Association, a group whose members consist of PR agencies and pharmaceutical companies. The company claims to have expertise in 'market access, brand development and public relations.' Another of their group are called 'Red', who claim to offer 'ethical healthcare' pr.
Donations: Huntsworth has given £45,600 to the Conservative party in total during the years 2008/09/10/11 - Chadlington and his wife have given £80,823.91 of which £44,700 went to the Central party - £21,623 went to David Cameron's office in Witney. £4,500 went to Michael Howard's leadership campaign and £10,000 to Cameron's leadership campaign. See article on him here.
12. Lord Coe: Conservative - In February 2011 became Director of AMT-Sybex Group, IT supplier to the NHS. Same company that paid for a trip of former MP Robert Keys. William Hague is listed as a director in 2008, and former Tory Mayoral candidate for London Steve Norris is listed as their chairman.
13. Baroness Cumberlege of Newick: Conservative - Former Tory health minister, runs Cumberlege Connections, a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry. Used to be non-excutive director of PR firm for healthcare huntsworth PLC, of which Lord Chadlington is Chief Executive. Former executive director of healthcare consulting firm MJM healthcare solutions. Chair of the All parliamentary Health Group, patron of the think tank 2020health.org. Has made money from offering courses to the new CCGs. £1,200 +VAT for a one-day course for Horsham and Mid-Sussex and Hastings and Rother CCGs. Paid £12,896 from NHS South-Eastern Hampshire and NHS Fareham and Gosport CCGs via a bursary from NHS South-Central SHA for one-day course on 'Understanding Politics Masterclass.'
Quotes on bill: 'I applaud the flexibility of the Bill.'
14. Lord Deighton: (New) Conservative - Shares in Synergy Pharmaceuticals, Inc - a biotechnology company.
15. Lord Dixon-Smith - Conservative - has shares in Vodafone group plc - Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
16. Baroness Eccles - Conservative - Has shares in GlaxoSmithKline (Healthcare) - GlaxoSmith Kline. GSK is the UK's leading supplier of COPD medicines.
Quote on the bill. 'My Lords, I am delighted to support this bill.' 'I hope that this bill will initiate a sea change in the way that we approach the nation's health...'
17. Lord Edmiston - Conservative - Shareholdings in Bupa Finance plc - a Bupa director is Baroness Bottomley - Bupa provides health insurance, private hospital and care group in direct competition with the NHS. Shares in Fidelity International Ltd, which acquired Telehealth Solutions Ltd in 2011 - Telehealth have partners in the NHS and private healthcare - and has several contracts with the NHS. Has won award for work in the NHS and telehealthcare is promoted by Andrew Lansley.
18. Lord Feldman of Elstree - Conservative - Shares in BTG pharmaceuticals - BGT are a UK company that manages commercialisation activity in pharmaceuticals. BTG acquired Biocompatiibles in 2010. Biocompatibles supplies medical devices.
19. Lord Feldman - Conservative - Shares in Inverness Medical, now Alere, a global healthcare company who work with many PCTs including the 'healthcheck programme.'
Donations: In 2005, gave £11,300 to Conservative Central party. Also in 2005, Lord Feldman of Frognal gave £11,643 to former Conservative MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Collins. Mr Collins is now managing director of Bell Pottinger, and was secretly recorded talking about the 'dark arts' the company used.
20. Lord Fink - Conservative - Director of multiple companies including: The Global PR network Ltd, which covers the health and medical sector, in which he has shares. Chairman and Director of Zenith hygiene Group plc, an approved NHS supplier. Shares run independently by Lombard Odier the company in charge of his share portfolio include: Abbott Laboratories ltd (pharmaceuticals), Allianz SE, which offers medical insurance, Prudential plc, which offers private health insurance, Siemens AG, which supplies medical equipment to the NHS, Vodafone group.
21. Lord Flight – Conservative - director of Investec Asset Management – Investec Asset Management is a specialist provider of investment products and services. Their clients include healthcare and some of the world’s largest private and public sector pension funds, insurers and corporates, and range from foundations and central banks to intermediated and direct investors. Voted with the government on all key divisions of the Health and Social Care bill.
Chairman of Arden
Partners plc who have invested
in Deltex Medical Group. The company produce a telehealth product
adopted by the NHS.
22. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean: Conservative - Sits on the board of the Centre for policy studies. Included in his biography interests are 'privatisation' and 'healthcare'. Senior adviser to Evercore, bank involved in huge healthcare deals.
23. Lord Freeman: Conservative - The ex-health minister is chairman of the Advisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which claims to have “been at the heart of shaping [healthcare] reforms and working with clients to respond to the opportunities they present”. Director of Parity Group plc - Parity group plc won a contract with NHS direct to develop and support a new Health Information Search Portal for £1.4 million. Lord Freeman became non-executive chairman in 2007.
24. Lord Garel-Jones: Conservative - MD of UBS bank, whose healthcare division earned the firm over $1billion since 2005.
25. Lord Glendonbrook - Conservative - Has shares in Ansell Ltd NPV (healthcare), Abbott Laboratories, supplies NHS with Lab equipment, reagents. Shares in Astrazeneca biopharaceuticals - The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. Shares in GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p (healthcare), GlaxoSmithKline (healthcare), Johnson & Johnson, which supplies the NHS. Shares in Novartis who threatened to pull out of the UK because the NHS safety trial rules. Shares in Novo Nordisk (pharmaceuticals) supplies NHS, shares in Pfizer Inc (pharmaceuticals) supplies NHS. Shares in Serco group, which has multiple contracts with NHS including PFI hospitals. Shares in Siemens AG, which supplies medical equipment to the NHS. Shares in Smith & Nephew, hip-replacement and bandaging group. Unilver plc, whose European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company.
26. Viscount Goschen - Conservative - is paid by though it doesn't say in which capacity by Korn/Ferry International - is an international executive search firm - they run healthcare services - Among the diverse range of healthcare organisations they have secured and developed top healthcare executives for are in hospital systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies, healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies.
Vanni Treves who is a director elect of Homerton Hospital NHS Trust, is also chair of Korn/Ferry International and Intertek Group Plc.
In 1993 when Virginia Bottomley was health secretary, Korn Ferry made the news when it was revealed Oxford Regional Health Authority forked out £30,000 to Korn Ferry to find its new £80,000-a-year chief executive; Oxford District Health Authority spent pounds £60,000 to get its new chief executive and director of finance; and Oxford Family Health Services Authority paid £30,000 for a replacement chief executive.
The worst thing about this particular case is that, for one of the posts, the company did little more than place an advert in newspapers and draw up a short list.' No doubt Korn Ferry will be recruiting for the new NHS.
27. Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach: Conservative - Director of Goldman Sachs bank, provider of services to healthcare firms. Chief executive of Circle Ali Parsa was an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs.
28. Lord Hamilton of Epsom - Conservative: Has a directorship with MSB Ltd (managing consultancy), who have NHS, Bupa, Nuffield Health and CareUK listed as their clients. Former Care UK chairman John Nash funded Andrew Lansley's office. A complaint was made to Lord Hamilton for not disclosing his interests, before making the quote below. The complaint was upheld. The story is here.
Quotes: 'My Lords, surely one of the problems of the National Health Service is the wall of money that was thrown at a totally unreformed NHS by the last Government? Do we not need management consultants now to show us the way forward on the savings that need to be wrung out of the NHS so that it can survive into the future?' Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 13 February 2012, c556)
Earl Howe responded - Yes, we do, my Lords. Part of the benefit of the modernisation programme will be to streamline the architecture of the NHS.
29. Lord Hayhoe - Conservative - shares in Abbott Laboratories ltd (pharmaceuticals, and medical products) supplies NHS.
30. Baron Higgins of Worthing: Conservative - Holds in excess of £50,000 of shares in Lansdowne UK Equity Fund, backers of private hospital group Circle Holdings. Voted loyally.
31. Lord Hill - Conservative - Shares in Huntsworth plc - company funded the Conservative party - the founder and chairman is Lord Chadlington. Huntsworth gave £15,500 to the Conservative party in August last year and has given money every year since 2008. Following the exposure, Huntsworth were forced to admit they had given money stating the money was given by buying tickets for ‘Conservative events’, a classic way for lobbying to take place. Furthermore, Lord Chadlington, and his wife have personally given more than £20,000 to the local party since 2007, including a sum of £10,000 for his leadership campaign.
32. Baroness Hodgson of Abinger - Chair of the Independent Health Advisory Services (IHAS) complaints and adjudication services. The IHAS is a trade body for the private health sector. Entered the Lords after the Health and Social Care bill
33. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts – Conservative - Chairman, Nova Capital Management – who own Accentus Medical and formerly owned life science company Sterilin Limited and healthcare call center services company notifymd.
34. Baroness Hooper: Conservative - Until July 11, chairman of Advisory Committee of Barclays Infrastructure Funds, one of the most experienced investors in hospital PFI deals.
35. Lord Howard of Lympne: Conservative - Senior adviser to Canaccord Genuity formerly Hawkpoint Partners, a corporate finance firm. Provide staff to NHS and Private Healthcare providers. Lord Howard replaced Douglas Hurd in early 2011, thus keeping the connection of influence in parliament. Andrew Lansley met Hawkpoint partners for dinner on 30th June 2011. What was said?
Liberal Democrats
71. Lord Alliance: Shares in Huntsworth plc - a company whose CEO is Lord Chadlington - which £15,500 to the party in August last year and has given money every year since 2008. Denied it at first but Electoral Commission found them out. The same company that had Baroness Cumberledge as one of their non-executive directors. Heavily involved in lobbying and PR. Article on Lord Alliance here.
Donations: Lord Alliance according to the electoral commission has given £697,440.48 to the Liberal Democrats through their central party and local party. Also gave £2,000 to UK Liberty league a Free market collective.
72. Lord Clement-Jones: Partner in DLA Piper, a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care sectors”. DLA Piper counts Southern Cross amongst its clients. Lord Clement-Jones nominated Lord Hameed for his peerage, a nomination supported by Lord Dholakia. Lord Hameed sits on the board of Alpha hospitals, part of the Alpha Healthcare (C&C Alpha/C&C business solutions) group. The Alpha group has made significant donations to the Liberal Democrat party. In 2008, Lord Clement-Jones was the party treasurer. The Times exposed Lord Clement-Jones as being the man who nominated Lord Hameed, after the peer had originally said he had 'no idea.' Ownership of Alpha is usually assigned to Bhanu Dhruv Choudhrie who were accused of brokering an israeli arms deal.
73. Lord Lee: Shares in United Drug plc (Pharmaceuticals) - Provide home-based pharmacy care for patients covered by the NHS as a joint venture from 2009 with Medco Health Solutions.
74. Lord Lester: Has shares in Investor AB an investment company that invests in healthcare companies amongst other sectors. One company is Gambro, a global medical technology company, which sells its products to the NHS. Voted loyally with the bill amendments.
75. Lord Rennard: Director, British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) - Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill - The BHTA's purpose, as a trade association, is to ensure that the market for healthcare and assistive technologies is competitive, profitable and well-regulated. They work in partnership with industry, government, and other stakeholders. Set up a communications company with his wife called Rennard & McTegart Ltd. through this company provides public affairs advice to the British Healthcare Trade Association. Rennard & McTegart Ltd provide management, campaign, communications and fund raising consultancy.
76. Lord Sharman: Is the chairman of Aviva, has directorship and Shareholdings in Aviva plc - his being chairman is not registered in the register of interests - Aviva sells health insurance and will likely benefit from any increase in privatisation - they promote how you don't have to have waiting times if you take out insurance with them. Dr Doug Wright, principal clinical consultant at Aviva Health UK, said "I think we could start to see waiting lists increase again, especially for some of the elective procedures that are within the traditional medical insurance territory," Dr Wright said. Earlier this month, a spokesman for the Association of British Insurers noted that health insurance could be a "very useful product" for many people in the UK to take advantage of.
77. Lord Steel: Non-executive Director, General Mediterranean Holding SA is a Business group with activities in amongst other sectors Trading & Pharmaceuticals. The http://www.gmhsa.com/images/spacer.gifIndustrial, Trading & Pharmaceuticals part is split into two companies of interest. Meditech UK Ltd has software currently installed at ten medical facilities in the UK including the NHS. MEDITECH is the leading supplier of healthcare information systems in North America. The other company is Crescent Pharma Ltd which directly and indirectly supplies a wide range of major distributors and customers within the UK, including the NHS.
78. Lord Taverne: Chairman of private health insurer Axa Sun Life’s monitoring board. Shares in Unilever whose European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company. Shares in GlaxoSmithKline, who provide products to the NHS. Has shares in a company called Informa which provides authoritative research and analysis and up-to-the-minute business news, comment and events for all sectors of the healthcare, medical and life sciences communities. They present their findings to clients who then invest based on their reports. Has shares in Legal and General, which provides healthcare insurance.
79. Lord Vallance: Member, International Advisory Board, Allianz SE (insurance) - company offers medical insurance. Also Member, Supervisory Board, Siemens AG - which supplies medical equipment to the NHS. Voted loyally - and against Lord Rea's proposal of declining to give the bill a second reading.
80. Lord Watson: Chairman, Havas Media UK - MPG Media Contacts is an integrated agency, 100% owned by Havas Media. In April 2011 - MPG Media Contacts won the integrated media planning and buying account for Circle Health, the healthcare partnership that runs and builds hospitals.The account is worth just under £1m, according to MPG Media Contacts, and the scope of the work covers offline and online channels in the UK.
Circle, which became the first private UK firm to run an NHS hospital last year when it won the tender to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital, plans to build a network of 30 hospitals across the UK in the coming years.
Paul Frampton, managing director, MPG Media Contacts, said: "We're proud to be working with Circle, which does an excellent job in the Healthcare sector.
"Our primary aim will be to deliver them an integrated media strategy that will bring them real value this year."
Labour Lords
81. Baroness Billingham: Regular contributions to Cumberlege Eden & Partners a training company for training NHS personnel and is a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry.
82. Lord Carter: The head of the increasingly influential Competition and Cooperation Panel, is a7n adviser to Warburg Pincus International Ltd, a private equity firm with significant investments in the healthcare industry. Chairman Patrick Carter, or Lord Carter of Coles to give him his full title, was the founder of Westminster Health Care, a leading private nursing home company. He is also the Chair of McKesson Information Solutions Ltd, which delivers IT to “virtually every NHS organisation”, the chair of Primary Group Ltd, a Bermudan based private equity company, and a substantial shareholder in, among other companies, B-Plan Information Systems Ltd, which has also benefited from the increased need for large scale IT systems that the introduction of an internal market to the NHS has brought with it (see the interview with Frank Wood, of King’s foundation trust, where B-Plan has worked, in the last news update). Carter’s register of interests in the House of Lords also lists him as an adviser to Warburg Pincus International Ltd, a private equity firm, which has significant investments in the healthcare industry. It even rescued United Healthcare from financial ruin in 1987 and helped it to become one of the largest healthcare companies in the world. He can now help it to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the government’s reforms. - http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3934
83. Viscount Chandos: Director of investment management company Sand Eire limited - who invest amongst other sectors, in Healthcare.
84. Lord Darzi: Labour - Former surgeon drafted into government as a health minister by Gordon Brown when he was PM. Now an adviser to medical technology firm GE Healthcare.
Quotes on bill: he would find it 'difficult at this stage' to vote for blocking the Bill...'I am speaking as a surgeon, not a politician.'
85. Lord Davies of Abersoch: A non-executive Director of Diageo. Lansley used to hold a directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients. Diageo plc are an alcohol drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. Vice Chairman and partner in Corsair Capital llc, who have amongst others Axis Capital holdings in their portfolio, providers of healthcare insurance products. Shares in HSBC who are heavily involved in PFI hospitals.
86. Lord Eatwell: Economic Adviser at Warburg Pincus & Co International Ltd, a private equity firm with significant investments in the healthcare industry. Economic advisor to Palamon Capital Partners LLP, who also heavily invest in private healthcare.
87. Lord Elder: Advisor to pharmaceutical company Daval International Ltd
88. Lord Evans of Watford: Labour - Director of healthcare property firm Care Capital.
89. Lord Filkin: Labour - Adviser to outsourcing giant Serco, heavily involved in NHS services.
90. Baroness Ford: Chairman of private healthcare company, Barchester Healthcare Ltd. Part of the NHS Partners Network. Chairman of Grove Ltd, a holding company for for Barchester Health.
91. Lord Gavron: Has shares in Serco, Smith & Nephew plc, Diageo, Unilever, Astrazeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Rhoen-Klinikum AG (private healthcare), Roche Holdings AG, Fresenius Medical Care AG, Sanofi-Aventis, Vodafone Group plc, Prudential Life.
92. LordGoldsmith: Partner in International law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, whose clients include: Bayer; Bristol Myers Squibb; Forest Laboratories; Galderma; GlaxoSmithKline; Hisamitsu; Johnson & Johnson; Merck; Nestlé; Novartis; L’Oréal; Pfizer; Schering-Plough; and Tenet Healthcare, among others.'
93. LordGrocott: Trainer at Cumberlege Eden & Partners: (See Baroness Cumberlege).
94. Lord Harris of Haringey: Former Senior adviser to business services giant KPMG, who are heavily involved in implementing changes in the NHS and its commissioning groups Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 2001. Remunerated by Cumberlege Connections Ltd for occasional participation in training events. See Baroness Cumberlege. One client Airwave through his own company Toby harris Associates provides services to Ambulance and health
95. Lord Hollick: Has shares in multiple companies involved in healthcare, which include: Diageo, Ambea, HCA, Capsugel.
96. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Consultant and Trainer at Cumberlege Connections Ltd: See Baroness Cumberlege.
97. Lord Hutton of Furness: Ex-health minister is an adviser to law firm Eversheds. Clients include care homes and private hospitals.
98. Baroness Jay: Occasional participation in seminars for Cumberlege Connections. Company that is a training company NHS personnel and a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry.
99. Lord Kestenbaum: Member of the board of directors of marketing agency Profero. Andrew Lansley was a director of Profero until the end of 2009. Diageo an alcohol company was one of their clients which went onto to be awarded a contract to talk about alcohol to midwives so that they can advise Mothers. Profero have contributed to the NHS Change4Life campaign to get more people to exercise.
100. Baroness Kingsmill: Non exec director of Korn/Ferry International, an executive recruitment firm. Among the diverse range of healthcare organisations they have secured and developed top healthcare executives for are in hospital systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies, healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies. Two other peers work for them. Deputy Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which claims to have “been at the heart of shaping [healthcare] reforms and working with clients to respond to the opportunities they present”.
101. Lord Leitch: Chairman. Non Exec director of Bupa.
Quote: ‘When we debate healthcare in the UK, all too often the focus is on the NHS alone. Yet the independent sector is more important than ever, providing services directly to patients, residents, insurers, and to the NHS itself. Going forward, all of us must think in terms of partnership, not rivalry.’ Health bill in 2008.
102. Baroness Liddell: Associate member of Bupa.
103. Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale: Member of the advisory board to accountants and auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers. See Baroness Kingsmill.
104. Baroness McDonagh: Non Executive Director of Standard Life plc, which offers private health insurance.
105. Baroness Mallalieu: Has shares in Diageo (See Andrew Lansley), and pharmaceutical giant Reckitt Benckiser. Shares in Oryx International a closed-end investment company incorporated in Guernsey, which invests in healthcare.
106. Lord Malloch-Brown: Chairman of FTI Global Affairs an advisory firm, which helps companies in the healthcare sector amongst others. On his appointment in 2010 he said: "Lord Malloch-Brown said, "The global economy has reached a tipping point, with Western companies under great pressure to shift their footprint towards emerging markets."
107. Lord Mandelson: Senior Advisor at Lazard Ltd, an international advisory investment bank, which includes the area of healthcare.
108. Lord Moonie: Advisor for Edinburgh-based healthcare and biosecurity company Americum. Former senior advisor to pharmaceutical company Pharmathene Ltd. Lord Moonie, previously accused in cash for influence scandal.
109. Baroness Morgan of Huyton: Ex-director of failed care home firm Southern Cross. Member of the advisory Committee board for Virgin Group Holdings Ltd.
110. Lord Myners: Non-Executive Director of RIT Capital partners plc, who according to their annual report invest extensively in healthcare. Also has shares in company.
111. Lord Noon: Director of Nutrahealth plc is a holding company which is 100% owned subsidiary of Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd, an Indian based healthcare company since November 2010. The businesses operated in the UK are Biocare, Brunel Health and Totally Nourish. Shares in Casualty Plus Ltd - private walk-in clinic.
112. Lord Prescott: Fee received from Civica plc (25 January 2012) as payment for taking part in a panel discussion at a conference hosted by Civica at the Manchester International Conference Centre, Manchester; travel expenses were also paid for by Civica plc
More than 70 NHS Commissioners use Civica Health & Social Care's industry standard SLAM NHS Commissioning software to help manage service level agreements with providers, including Payment by Results, local tariffs, local agreements, block payments and other variants.
113. Lord Puttnam: Director of Huntsworth communications group. global public relations and integrated healthcare communications group. Did not stand for the board this year (2012). Deputy chair of Profero (See Andrew Lansley). Senior Non-executive director of Promethean World plc a technological hardware company, which according to its annual reports a new division was created, which amongst other sectors included healthcare.
114. Lord Sainsbury of Turville: Has shares in multiple companies involved in private healthcare including: Becton Dickinson, Hospira Inc, Vodafone plc (See Baroness James), JP Morgan (See Lord Renwick), Quest Diagnostics Inc, Johnson & Johnson.
115. Lord Sawyer: Chair of Norlife, part of a government led initiative called LIFT, set up as partnership project in the county of Norfolk creating PFI projects, which include
116. Lord Simpson: (Currently on a leave of absence) Shares in multiple healthcare companies including Reckitt Benckiser, Standard Chartered Bank plc, GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone plc.
117. Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean: International consultant for legal firm DLA Piper a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care sectors”. DLA Piper counts Southern Cross amongst its clients and advised on the failed £12 billion NHS I.T. project.
118. Lord Warner: Labour - Former adviser to Apax Partners, one of the leading global investors in the healthcare sector. Current director of Sage Advice Ltd. Works as an adviser to Xansa, a technology firm, and Byotrol, an antimicrobial company, which both sell services or products to the NHS” and was “paid by DLA Piper, which advised ministers on the £12 billion IT project for the NHS” projects that he was responsible for when he was a government minister. Lord Warner explains his role here. Used to be an advisor to PA Consulting in 2009. PA Consulting have worked with the new Clinical Commissioning Groups. Other NHS involvement includes, training, helping commissioners in North-East London, performance management.
Crossbench Peers
119. Lord Adebowale: Non-executive director and shares in St Vincent's healthcare consulting company that offers consultancy to the healthcare market. Their partners include: BT Health, IOCOM and AXSys.
120. Lord Birt: Advisor to Private equity company, Terra Firma Capital Partners who purchased Four Seasons Health Care in July 2012, the largest private UK health company, who operate 447 Care Homes and 58 specialist care centres.
121. Lord Boyce: Non-executive director of global engineering and design company WS Atkins - who were involved in multiple PFI projects and NHS building projects including, Tayside Murray Royal Hospital, Ayrshire & Arran Community Health Trust, Cummock Community hospital, and Doncaster & South Humber healthcare. They gained £14.4 million from selling their PFI stake.
Chairman of D Group advisory board. D Group is a business development and networking group, which according to its website is 'dedicated to generating revenues and promoting the objectives of its members.' They have over 70 members consisting of UK and International leading business, though they are not listed. However in their testimonial page one company is mentioned BT group plc, which is one of the largest suppliers of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system overhaul. The testimonial of BT group PLC says 'The D Group provides effective and discreet access to influential thinkers and policy makers on important topics.' The site is currently being rebuilt, so some of these details may change on the new site.
122. Lord Chorley: Shares in Pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca, private health insurance providers Prudential and Legal and General and banking group Standard Chartered, which invests in healthcare companies and offers health insurance. Shares in Reckitt Benckiser, in Unilever, and IBM, the latter supply software to the NHS.
123. Lord Currie of Marylebone: Chairman of Semperian, an investment vehicle, which owns a portfolio of mature Public Private Partnership investments, including hospitals.
124. Lord Elystan: Has bonds held in HSBC-controlled companies - According to a Times report in 2008, HSBC made almost £100 million from managingNHS hospitals where where contractors charge taxpayers inflated bills for simple tasks, such as £210 to fit an electrical socket. HSBC has a controlling stake of several hospitals, including outright ownership of three NHS hospitals, located in Barnet, Central Middlesex, and West Middlesex. HSBC used a legal loophole to handle the profits from PFI schemes to a tax haven in Guernsey. HSBC offer health insurance. Lord Elystan also hold shares in Santander which offers health insurance and funds heavily in healthcare projects and companies.
125. Earl of Errol: Chair on the Advisory board of software intelligence company Flexeye Ltd. The company develop security applications and platforms, which supplies the NHS. The Company's healthcare website says: 'Flexeye's Health Information Tool (HIP) is a communication tool designed especially for the healthcare system.' Paid by Nihilent Technologies PVT Ltd in unspecified capacity, an IT, consulting and outsourcing company. Worked on multiple healthcare projects in multiple countries.
126. Baroness Grey-Thompson: 'Advisory' work for official Olympic sponsors and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The role is contractual to give internal talks to staff and PR regarding their activation programme. The programme involves, a partnership with NHS London to inspire people with a variety of long-term conditions to to understand the benefits of an active lifestyle. Has given two speaking engagements paid for by Proctor and Gamble, paid on an ad hoc basis and not contractual.
127. Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank: Member of the advisory board of Cannacord Genuity a global capital markets division of Cannacord financial Inc. Their websitestates: 'Cannacord Genuity focuses on public and private healthcare companies, at all stages of development.'
128. Lord Hameed: Chair of private secure mental health hospital group Alpha Hospitals, which is investing in a new acute private hospital in central London. Alpha hospitals. part of the Alpha Healthcare (C&C Alpha/C&C business solutions) group. The Alpha group has made significant donations to the Liberal Democrat party. In 2008, Lord Clement-Jones was the party treasurer. Lord Clement-Jones nominated Lord Hameed to become a peer.
129. Lord Hannay: Advisor to Frontier Strategy Group, who provide economic consulting based on emerging markets. They list multiple pharmaceutical and healthcare companies as their clients. Has shares in Lionheart Investment Fund who offer individual or group healthcare coverage.
130. Lord Hastings: Global head of Citizenship and Diversity for global tax, Audit, and advisory firm KPMG. The firm is heavily involved in the new NHS structural changes, including GP commissioning groups. KPMG's head of Global Health and advisor to Cameron famously said the NHS would be shown 'nomercy'.
131. Baroness Hayman: Has shares in Standard Chartered plc, which offers healthcare through Aviva for its customers, and general health insurance.
132. Baroness Hogg of Kettlethorpe: Chair of Frontier Economics, a consultancy that advises private sector clients on the impact of healthcare reforms and how "to shape regulatory environments".
133. Lord Jones of Birmingham: Chairman of software solutions company Neutrinos Concepts Ltd, which has run a couple of trials in NHS trust hospitals. He also has shares in the company. Senior advisor for HSBC plc and Chairman on the International Business Advisory board for the same bank. (See Crossbench Lord Elystan for more on HSBC). A senior advisor executive recruitment agency Harvey Nash Group plc. The Harvey Nash 'Healthcare Practice' part of the site states: We support leading healthcare organisations in securing the right Executive...' Is an unpaid associate of Bupa.
134. Lord Kerr of Kinlochard: Member of the Investment advisory board of investment fund for Edinburgh Partners. A report by the group reveals healthcare as their main sector of interest representing 22.7% of their allocation.
135. Lord Kilclooney: Shares in Vodafone - Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
136. Lord Levene: Holds shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, which is heavily involved in the healthcare sector.
137. Baroness Manningham-Buller: Has given speaking engagements for KPMG, Artemis, Merck, GE healthcare and Standard Chartered Bank all involved in private healthcare.
138: Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge - (Deceased 5th of July 2012) Chairman of Nomura International plc. Nomura code, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Europe Holdings plc, who Lord Marshall is also a chairman is a leading European investment bank specialising in healthcare.
139. Lord Mendelsohn - Sole shareholder and director of Europa Hospitals Group Ltd. Unclear currently what exactly the company is - was incorporated September 2013 - See article here .
140: Lord Millett (Currently on leave of absence) - Has shares in Diageo - (See Lord Wasserman). Shares in GlaxoSmithKline.
141. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein – Crossbench – shares in Astrazeneca (Pharma), Vodafione plc. Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner. Shares in Standard life (private health insurance).
142. Duke of Norfolk - (Currently on leave of absence) Shares in Cardionetics who sell ECG monitors. The heart monitor hardware is supplied to the NHS. Shares in Helperby Therapeutics plc, which is developing a new antibiotic processes.
143. Lord O'Donnell: Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive of Toronto Dominion Bank, which has a healthcare area which includes health insurance cover. In addition the bank has a healthcare division covering liability. The Peer began in the Lords from 10th January 2012.
He joined Frontier Economic (Europe) as a Senior Advisor at the end of last year to advise on ‘all aspects of Frontier’s work.’’
Frontier's involvement in healthcare includes regular advice to public and private sector institutions on ‘healthcare reform'. Frontier’s Health practice advises public sector and private clients on issues relating to the reform, restructuring and operation of healthcare markets.
144. Lord Owen - Shares in Abbot Laboratories global healthcare company - supplies NHS with Lab equipment, reagents.
145. Lord Palmer - Shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline
146. Lord Powell of Bayswater: Chairman of the advisory board of Bowmark Capital who invest in healthcare amongst other sectors. Member of the International Advisory board for health insurance providers ACE insurance.
147. Lord Quirk: Has shares in pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Astrazeneca and Walgreen. For more on Walgreens. Shares in Standard chartered who offer health insurance.
148. Lord Renwick of Clifton: Vice Chairman of global Investment giants JP Morgan. his chairmanships is of both JP Morgan Cazenove and JP Morgan Europe investment banking. JP Morgan are major players in healthcare. According to their website they serve: 1,100 hospitals, 10 of the top 10 health insurers, thousands of physicians groups, top five pharmacy benefit managers, six of the top eight pharmacy retailers. Also has shares in JP Morgan.
149. Lord St John: (Deceased 2nd March 2012) Non-executive Director of PharmaSys Ltd, a web-based pharmacy management system. Non-Executive Director of Albion Ventures VCT - which has multiple healthcare companies on its portfolio. Consultant for 2e2 Group plc, an IT solution provider, which has multiple contracts across the healthcare spectrum, including the NHS.
150. Lord Skidelsky: Shares in fund managers Janus Capital Group, who invest in the healthcare sector amongst other areas. Wrote in the Spectator in 2000, on an article titled: 'Let's go private.' In there he promotes the idea of encouraging users to get a tax-incentive to go private.
22. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean: Conservative - Sits on the board of the Centre for policy studies. Included in his biography interests are 'privatisation' and 'healthcare'. Senior adviser to Evercore, bank involved in huge healthcare deals.
23. Lord Freeman: Conservative - The ex-health minister is chairman of the Advisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which claims to have “been at the heart of shaping [healthcare] reforms and working with clients to respond to the opportunities they present”. Director of Parity Group plc - Parity group plc won a contract with NHS direct to develop and support a new Health Information Search Portal for £1.4 million. Lord Freeman became non-executive chairman in 2007.
24. Lord Garel-Jones: Conservative - MD of UBS bank, whose healthcare division earned the firm over $1billion since 2005.
25. Lord Glendonbrook - Conservative - Has shares in Ansell Ltd NPV (healthcare), Abbott Laboratories, supplies NHS with Lab equipment, reagents. Shares in Astrazeneca biopharaceuticals - The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. Shares in GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p (healthcare), GlaxoSmithKline (healthcare), Johnson & Johnson, which supplies the NHS. Shares in Novartis who threatened to pull out of the UK because the NHS safety trial rules. Shares in Novo Nordisk (pharmaceuticals) supplies NHS, shares in Pfizer Inc (pharmaceuticals) supplies NHS. Shares in Serco group, which has multiple contracts with NHS including PFI hospitals. Shares in Siemens AG, which supplies medical equipment to the NHS. Shares in Smith & Nephew, hip-replacement and bandaging group. Unilver plc, whose European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company.
26. Viscount Goschen - Conservative - is paid by though it doesn't say in which capacity by Korn/Ferry International - is an international executive search firm - they run healthcare services - Among the diverse range of healthcare organisations they have secured and developed top healthcare executives for are in hospital systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies, healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies.
Vanni Treves who is a director elect of Homerton Hospital NHS Trust, is also chair of Korn/Ferry International and Intertek Group Plc.
In 1993 when Virginia Bottomley was health secretary, Korn Ferry made the news when it was revealed Oxford Regional Health Authority forked out £30,000 to Korn Ferry to find its new £80,000-a-year chief executive; Oxford District Health Authority spent pounds £60,000 to get its new chief executive and director of finance; and Oxford Family Health Services Authority paid £30,000 for a replacement chief executive.
The worst thing about this particular case is that, for one of the posts, the company did little more than place an advert in newspapers and draw up a short list.' No doubt Korn Ferry will be recruiting for the new NHS.
27. Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach: Conservative - Director of Goldman Sachs bank, provider of services to healthcare firms. Chief executive of Circle Ali Parsa was an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs.
28. Lord Hamilton of Epsom - Conservative: Has a directorship with MSB Ltd (managing consultancy), who have NHS, Bupa, Nuffield Health and CareUK listed as their clients. Former Care UK chairman John Nash funded Andrew Lansley's office. A complaint was made to Lord Hamilton for not disclosing his interests, before making the quote below. The complaint was upheld. The story is here.
Quotes: 'My Lords, surely one of the problems of the National Health Service is the wall of money that was thrown at a totally unreformed NHS by the last Government? Do we not need management consultants now to show us the way forward on the savings that need to be wrung out of the NHS so that it can survive into the future?' Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 13 February 2012, c556)
Earl Howe responded - Yes, we do, my Lords. Part of the benefit of the modernisation programme will be to streamline the architecture of the NHS.
29. Lord Hayhoe - Conservative - shares in Abbott Laboratories ltd (pharmaceuticals, and medical products) supplies NHS.
30. Baron Higgins of Worthing: Conservative - Holds in excess of £50,000 of shares in Lansdowne UK Equity Fund, backers of private hospital group Circle Holdings. Voted loyally.
31. Lord Hill - Conservative - Shares in Huntsworth plc - company funded the Conservative party - the founder and chairman is Lord Chadlington. Huntsworth gave £15,500 to the Conservative party in August last year and has given money every year since 2008. Following the exposure, Huntsworth were forced to admit they had given money stating the money was given by buying tickets for ‘Conservative events’, a classic way for lobbying to take place. Furthermore, Lord Chadlington, and his wife have personally given more than £20,000 to the local party since 2007, including a sum of £10,000 for his leadership campaign.
32. Baroness Hodgson of Abinger - Chair of the Independent Health Advisory Services (IHAS) complaints and adjudication services. The IHAS is a trade body for the private health sector. Entered the Lords after the Health and Social Care bill
33. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts – Conservative - Chairman, Nova Capital Management – who own Accentus Medical and formerly owned life science company Sterilin Limited and healthcare call center services company notifymd.
34. Baroness Hooper: Conservative - Until July 11, chairman of Advisory Committee of Barclays Infrastructure Funds, one of the most experienced investors in hospital PFI deals.
35. Lord Howard of Lympne: Conservative - Senior adviser to Canaccord Genuity formerly Hawkpoint Partners, a corporate finance firm. Provide staff to NHS and Private Healthcare providers. Lord Howard replaced Douglas Hurd in early 2011, thus keeping the connection of influence in parliament. Andrew Lansley met Hawkpoint partners for dinner on 30th June 2011. What was said?
36. Earl Howe: was a patron of pro-market health think tank 2020health up until the election.
The rules allow patronage without the need to register. 2020health have
produced multiple publications sponsored by the likes of Pfizer, Tunstall and
other healthcare companies. Hey have a membership list that is hidden. There
are currently four patrons of 2020health – who all have healthcare links.
For more on the Earl please click here.
37. Lord Hunt of Wirral: Conservative - Partner in Beachcroft, a law firm that offers incisive analysis on the full range of government, parliamentary and regulatory matters in the health sector.
38. Baroness James - Conservative - has shares in AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals). The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. GlaxoSmithKline plc (healthcare) supplies the NHS. Shares in Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, which produces drugs for the NHS amongst other health institutions. NHS is currently suing Reckitt Benckiser for £90 million following an investigation that ruled the company had abused its dominant position in the heartburn market. Serco Group (business services), which has multiple contracts with NHS including PFI hospitals. Smith and Nephew (healthcare) supplies hip replacement and bandaging to the NHS. Shares in Vodafone Group (communications) - Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
39. Lord Lang of Monkton: Conservative - Director of Marsh & McLennan Companies that "help hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and industry associations understand the implications of changing policy environments".
In February 2011 Marsh was appointed by the Department of Health to conduct an ‘industry review’ of the NHS Litigation Authority (NHS LA). The objective of the review was to ‘identify opportunities to introduce greater commercial management and practice to services.
40. Lord Lawson: Conservative - Chairman of Oxford Investment Partners - Lawson once said 'the NHS was the closest thing the English had to a religion'. Perhaps the closet thing the Lords have to a religion is money?
41. Lord Leigh of Hurley: (New entry after Health and Social Care bill) A designated member of Cavendish Capital Advisers LLP. Advisers on Mergers and Acquisitions. They are involved in healthcare and have advised on multiple healthcare deals. Director of Cavendish Corporate Finance,
42. Lord Lloyd-Webber - Conservative - Shares in Catlin Group Limited, began writing Healthcare Professional Liability insurance in London in 1994. They offer extensive knowledge of medical, healthcare and pharmaceutical markets. Shares in Smiths Group plc, which produces medical equipment. Shares in AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals). The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. Shares in Gilead Sciences, a research-based pharmaceutical company, which supplies the NHS. hares in GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals), and Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals), which both supply to the NHS. Standad life, which supply Private Medical Insurance plans to both corporate and individual customers and have an extensive range of healthcare products. Raffles medical group - operates a network of 74 multi-disciplinary clinics across Singapore. Shares in Stryker Corporation orthopedic market and is one of the world’s largest medical device companies. Has voted in 1.49% of votes in this House with this affiliation — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip). Voted in the Health and Social care bill on commissioning.
43. Lord Macfarlane : Conservative - Has shares in Prudential plc, which offers private health insurance. Shares in Aviva plc, which offers private health care. Shares in Smith & Nephew (Pharmaceuticals) hip-replacement and bandaging group.Has voted in 6.25% of votes in this House with this affiliation — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip). Voted on the Health and Social Care bill.
44. Lord Magan of Castletown: Conservative - Director of the SISK Group of healthcare companies. Member of the advisory board on Axa Private equity, which invests heavily in healthcare.
45. Lord Maples - (Deceased 9th June 2012) Shares in Berkshire Hathaway Inc the company run by Warren Buffet - the conglomerate invests heavily in private healthcare companies - 6 out of their 41 stocks are in healthcare. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill. Deceased 9th June 2012.
46. Lord Marland - Shares in Tristel Ltd plc - a leading provider of infection control products into the NHS. Shares in Jardine Lloyd Thompson plc - their website states 'the placing and serving of healthcare insurance...is a specialist field in which we excel.' Their insurance covers hospitals, Physician cover, Clinics, Long-term care, allied health professionals and more. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill.
47. Lord McColl - Conservative - was a paid a fee as a consultant to a new private healthcare company that provides a fee-paying rival to the National Health Service’s family doctor service.
Endeavour Health, which was set up by two hedge fund advisers, claims to be Britain’s first comprehensive GP network, offering access to the best doctors and the opportunity to beat NHS queues and have appointments at any time they want. Endeavour Health was founded last year by two financial advisers, Briton Yadin Shemmer and American Jonathan Weiss, to compete with the NHS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8209292.stm has since claimed no ties with the company.
48. Lord Moore: Conservative - Shares in Johnson & Johnson, which supplies the NHS. Merck & Co inc (pharmaceuticals, Novartis AG (pharmaceuticals), which supplies the NHS. Shares in BT group, which is one of the largest suppliers of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system overhaul. Shares in Vodafone group: Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner. Has voted in only 14.53% of votes below average, but managed to vote on all the Health and Social Care ones.
49. Lord Naseby: Conservative - Was until October 2011 Chairman of and a share-holder in Invesco Perpetual Recovery Trust. Trust voluntarily wound down on October 27th 2011 - One fifth of their investments were in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Quotes on bill: 'I want to make it clear that I support the Bill. More importantly, I support the need for the Bill.'
'Finally, competition is good for any industry...Competition gives people pride and responsibility.'
50. Lord Nash: (New) Conservative - In November 2009, John Nash made a donation of £21,000 to then shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley, now Secretary of State for Health. Nash and his wife Caroline are regular Tory donors who have given £300,000 to the party since 2006. In August 2010 Nash was one of four City figures invited by UK chancellor George Osborne to join the HM Treasury Independent Challenge Group, whose remit is to “question the unquestionable” in the Treasury's austerity drive.
Until 2010, Chairman of Care UK, one of the leading private healthcare providers in the UK – he sits on the free market board of the Centre for Policy Studies who have produced several papers on dismantling the NHS and turning it into a health insurance system. His wife Caroline has made significant donations, giving £172,500 to the Conservative Party between 2008 and 2010. At least Lord Nash didn’t vote on the bill as he was made a Peer in January 21st 2013. However, despite these interests, he would still be allowed to for any future bill that is on healthcare.
Lord Nash was also a founder of City firm Sovereign Capital, which runs a string of private healthcare firms. Fellow founder Ryan Robson is another major Tory donor who has given the party £252,429.45. His donations included £50,000 to be a member of the party’s “Leader’s Group”, a secretive cash-for-access club. Sovereign Capital also back several healthcare companies. HE also has shares in Aviva who do private health insurance. See article on Lord Nash.
51. Baron Newton of Braintree: (Deceased) Conservative - Advisor to Oasis Healthcare on dentistry and general healthcare matters. Died on 25th March 2012.
52. Baroness Noakes - Conservative - Shares in BT Group (communications), which is one of the largest suppliers of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system overhaul. Shares in Astrazeneca (Pharmaceuticals) - The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals) supplies the NHS. Vodafone Group plc, Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
Quotes on the bill: I hope that other noble Lords will not encourage the Government to keep any limits which constrain the NHS from maximising its assets for the purposes of the NHS.'
53. Lord Patten - Conservative - Senior Advisor for Charterhouse Development Capital Ltd - who purchased Tunstall for £510 Million in 2008. Tunstall are a Telecare provider. Tunstall provides services that allow the elderly to be able to be monitored remotely. Chief executive of Tunstall supported Andrew Lansley's bill. Following the takeover in 2008, Tunstall were awarded a three-year contract for services to NHS North Yorkshire and North. Tunstall have also been given a framework agreement to provide telecare, telehealth and telecoaching to NHS services, which forms part of Andrew Lansley's vision for developing telecare across the UK. The framework agreement began on 16th of August 2010. Has voted on 27.52% of votes in the Lords, below average amongst Lords. Voted on the Health and Social Care bill.
54. Lord Patten of Barnes: Adviser to private equity firm Bridgepoint. The company who also have Alan Milburn the former Secretary of State for Health under Tony Blair, as chair of the board, have been involved in 17 healthcare deals over recent years and you can see their latest portfolio in health here. Eight of these companies remain as their current investments, which include four in the UK at a combined investment worth over £1.1 billion. For more, click here. Purchased Oasis Healthcare for £185 million in March 2013. See article on him here.
55. Lord Popat - Conservative - Founder of TLC group Ltd who run private care homes. Lord Popat gave David Cameron a donation as a gift for £25,000 a week after the Conservatives' unveiled their health 'reforms'. David Cameron made businessman a peer shortly after getting into ten Downing street. Voted on the Health and Social Care bill loyally.
Donations: According to the electoral commission, Lord Popat has given £43,700 to Conservative Central party in the years 2010/11.
56. Lord Ribeiro: Conservative - Adviser on hospital reorganisation to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). PWC is heavily involved in consultancy services to the NHS and gets paid for setting up contracts amongst many other services.
57. Viscount Ridley: Conservative – appointed February 8th 2013 – shares in Diageo plc (drinks) – (See Andrew Lansley) - Johnson & Johnson Inc (pharmaceuticals)
58. Lord Saatchi - A partner and shares in M&C Saatchi plc - a marketing company. Involved in multiple campaign projects for the government including the Change4Life project aimed at promoting healthier living to tackle obesity. M&C Saatchi also worked for PPP healthcare, AXA insurance. Saatchi have multiple pharmaceutical clients, including; Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck. There website says: 'We transform raw data about life-changing brands into real meaning for healthcare professionals.' Has voted in 15.33% of votes in the house - well below average. Voted on key parts of the Health and Social Care bill.
59. Earl of Selborne: Shares in Prudential, which offers private health insurance.
60. Lord Sheikh: Chairman and director of Macmillan Sheikh plc - insurance and financial services which offers private health insurance - voted loyally on Health and Social care bill.
61. Lord Sheppard - Has shares in Diageo, a drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. No, you can't make it up. Lansley used to hold a directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients.
62. Lord Swinfen - Unpaid director of Swinfen Charitable Trust who have American Telemedicine Association as their partners for global crisis work using telehealth technology. Lord Swinfen is also an unpaid director of The American Telemedicine Association, which has multiplemembers who supply the NHS and private health care. The members according to the website: 'Play a special role in shaping the future of the telemedicine industry. The American Telemedicine Association has written a new legislative proposal to the American congress to expand the use of telemedicine. Voted loyally on Health and Social Care bill. Telecare is expanding throughout the NHS as a way of treating people from home. These companies that are part of the American Telemedicine Association are set to benefit.
63. Lord Tugendhat - Conservative: Shares in MetLife, which is America's largest life insurance company also operates in the UK. It offers accident protection for clinical health care workers, to cover specified infectious illnesses contracted at work for those who work in the UK health care industry.It also offers health insurance. Set to benefit from the Health and Social Care bill. Has voted in 25.43% of votes in this House with this affiliation — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip) - Voted loyally for the Health and Social Care bill. Supported large chunks of the bill, but spoke out against the top-down re-organisation.
Quotes on the bill: 'The Government's mistake was to introduce a Bill that sought to impose a massive programme of management and structural change on top of an ambitious cost-cutting programme.' Declared his interest as chairman of the Imperial College healthcare trust, but not of his shareholdings in MetLife.
Adviser to Trilantic Capital Partners, a private equity firm “active” in healthcare.
64. Lord Wade - Director, unpaid of RisingStars Growth Fund Ltd an early stage venture capital company - The fund prefers to invest in amongst other sectors, healthcare. Rising Stars Growth Fund invests in multiple healthcare companies that supply the NHS. Has voted in 28.33% of votes in this House with this affiliation — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
65. Lord Wakeham: Conservative - Advisor to L.E.K. Consulting, which specialises in helping private healthcare companies identify "growth and new business development" and "opportunities with the government".
66. Lord Waldegrave - Tory Adviser, UBS Investment Bank UBS bank, whose healthcare di5ision earned the firm over $1billion since 2005. Fellow Tory peer Lord Garel-Jones is MD of UBS bank. Has voted in 7.88% of votes in this House with this affiliation — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip) - Voted in key votes on the Health and Social care bill. Director of Biotech Growth Trust plc - which is managed by Orbimed. OrbiMed is the world's largest healthcare-dedicated investment firm, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management.
67. Lord Wasserman - Conservative - Shares in Diageo plc an alcohol drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. No, you can't make it up. Lansley used to hold a directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients. Shares in Johnson & Johnson Inc, which supplies the NHS. Shares in Procter & Gamble Co, which supplies the NHS. Walgreen Company - American pharmaceutical company. For more on Walgreens. The bill will give pharmaceuticals even more diverse healthcare providers to build relationships with. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill.
68. Baroness Wheatcroft: Conservative: Business Consultant, DLA Piper (legal services) a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care sectors”. DLA Piper, which advised ministers on the failed £12 billion IT project for the NHS. Member of the Advisory Board, Pelham Bell Pottinger (financial and corporate communications) - Bell Pottinger whose lobbying clients include Southern Cross, BT Health and AstraZeneca. For more on Pottinger see Lord Pottinger. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill.
69. Lord Wolfson - Conservative - Shares in Cable & Wireless plc - Cable & Wireless solutions for the Health Sector are 'intended to meet all the communications requirements of the health service, from the largest Trusts to the smallest GP surgeries. Some offer special features, and the service levels are available exclusively to NHS customers.' The services have already been selected through the NHS procurement procedure
37. Lord Hunt of Wirral: Conservative - Partner in Beachcroft, a law firm that offers incisive analysis on the full range of government, parliamentary and regulatory matters in the health sector.
38. Baroness James - Conservative - has shares in AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals). The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. GlaxoSmithKline plc (healthcare) supplies the NHS. Shares in Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, which produces drugs for the NHS amongst other health institutions. NHS is currently suing Reckitt Benckiser for £90 million following an investigation that ruled the company had abused its dominant position in the heartburn market. Serco Group (business services), which has multiple contracts with NHS including PFI hospitals. Smith and Nephew (healthcare) supplies hip replacement and bandaging to the NHS. Shares in Vodafone Group (communications) - Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
39. Lord Lang of Monkton: Conservative - Director of Marsh & McLennan Companies that "help hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and industry associations understand the implications of changing policy environments".
In February 2011 Marsh was appointed by the Department of Health to conduct an ‘industry review’ of the NHS Litigation Authority (NHS LA). The objective of the review was to ‘identify opportunities to introduce greater commercial management and practice to services.
40. Lord Lawson: Conservative - Chairman of Oxford Investment Partners - Lawson once said 'the NHS was the closest thing the English had to a religion'. Perhaps the closet thing the Lords have to a religion is money?
41. Lord Leigh of Hurley: (New entry after Health and Social Care bill) A designated member of Cavendish Capital Advisers LLP. Advisers on Mergers and Acquisitions. They are involved in healthcare and have advised on multiple healthcare deals. Director of Cavendish Corporate Finance,
42. Lord Lloyd-Webber - Conservative - Shares in Catlin Group Limited, began writing Healthcare Professional Liability insurance in London in 1994. They offer extensive knowledge of medical, healthcare and pharmaceutical markets. Shares in Smiths Group plc, which produces medical equipment. Shares in AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals). The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. Shares in Gilead Sciences, a research-based pharmaceutical company, which supplies the NHS. hares in GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals), and Johnson & Johnson (pharmaceuticals), which both supply to the NHS. Standad life, which supply Private Medical Insurance plans to both corporate and individual customers and have an extensive range of healthcare products. Raffles medical group - operates a network of 74 multi-disciplinary clinics across Singapore. Shares in Stryker Corporation orthopedic market and is one of the world’s largest medical device companies. Has voted in 1.49% of votes in this House with this affiliation — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip). Voted in the Health and Social care bill on commissioning.
43. Lord Macfarlane : Conservative - Has shares in Prudential plc, which offers private health insurance. Shares in Aviva plc, which offers private health care. Shares in Smith & Nephew (Pharmaceuticals) hip-replacement and bandaging group.Has voted in 6.25% of votes in this House with this affiliation — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip). Voted on the Health and Social Care bill.
44. Lord Magan of Castletown: Conservative - Director of the SISK Group of healthcare companies. Member of the advisory board on Axa Private equity, which invests heavily in healthcare.
45. Lord Maples - (Deceased 9th June 2012) Shares in Berkshire Hathaway Inc the company run by Warren Buffet - the conglomerate invests heavily in private healthcare companies - 6 out of their 41 stocks are in healthcare. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill. Deceased 9th June 2012.
46. Lord Marland - Shares in Tristel Ltd plc - a leading provider of infection control products into the NHS. Shares in Jardine Lloyd Thompson plc - their website states 'the placing and serving of healthcare insurance...is a specialist field in which we excel.' Their insurance covers hospitals, Physician cover, Clinics, Long-term care, allied health professionals and more. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill.
47. Lord McColl - Conservative - was a paid a fee as a consultant to a new private healthcare company that provides a fee-paying rival to the National Health Service’s family doctor service.
Endeavour Health, which was set up by two hedge fund advisers, claims to be Britain’s first comprehensive GP network, offering access to the best doctors and the opportunity to beat NHS queues and have appointments at any time they want. Endeavour Health was founded last year by two financial advisers, Briton Yadin Shemmer and American Jonathan Weiss, to compete with the NHS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8209292.stm has since claimed no ties with the company.
48. Lord Moore: Conservative - Shares in Johnson & Johnson, which supplies the NHS. Merck & Co inc (pharmaceuticals, Novartis AG (pharmaceuticals), which supplies the NHS. Shares in BT group, which is one of the largest suppliers of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system overhaul. Shares in Vodafone group: Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner. Has voted in only 14.53% of votes below average, but managed to vote on all the Health and Social Care ones.
49. Lord Naseby: Conservative - Was until October 2011 Chairman of and a share-holder in Invesco Perpetual Recovery Trust. Trust voluntarily wound down on October 27th 2011 - One fifth of their investments were in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Quotes on bill: 'I want to make it clear that I support the Bill. More importantly, I support the need for the Bill.'
'Finally, competition is good for any industry...Competition gives people pride and responsibility.'
50. Lord Nash: (New) Conservative - In November 2009, John Nash made a donation of £21,000 to then shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley, now Secretary of State for Health. Nash and his wife Caroline are regular Tory donors who have given £300,000 to the party since 2006. In August 2010 Nash was one of four City figures invited by UK chancellor George Osborne to join the HM Treasury Independent Challenge Group, whose remit is to “question the unquestionable” in the Treasury's austerity drive.
Until 2010, Chairman of Care UK, one of the leading private healthcare providers in the UK – he sits on the free market board of the Centre for Policy Studies who have produced several papers on dismantling the NHS and turning it into a health insurance system. His wife Caroline has made significant donations, giving £172,500 to the Conservative Party between 2008 and 2010. At least Lord Nash didn’t vote on the bill as he was made a Peer in January 21st 2013. However, despite these interests, he would still be allowed to for any future bill that is on healthcare.
Lord Nash was also a founder of City firm Sovereign Capital, which runs a string of private healthcare firms. Fellow founder Ryan Robson is another major Tory donor who has given the party £252,429.45. His donations included £50,000 to be a member of the party’s “Leader’s Group”, a secretive cash-for-access club. Sovereign Capital also back several healthcare companies. HE also has shares in Aviva who do private health insurance. See article on Lord Nash.
51. Baron Newton of Braintree: (Deceased) Conservative - Advisor to Oasis Healthcare on dentistry and general healthcare matters. Died on 25th March 2012.
52. Baroness Noakes - Conservative - Shares in BT Group (communications), which is one of the largest suppliers of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system overhaul. Shares in Astrazeneca (Pharmaceuticals) - The NHS is the primary customer for Astrazeneca medicines in the UK. GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals) supplies the NHS. Vodafone Group plc, Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
Quotes on the bill: I hope that other noble Lords will not encourage the Government to keep any limits which constrain the NHS from maximising its assets for the purposes of the NHS.'
53. Lord Patten - Conservative - Senior Advisor for Charterhouse Development Capital Ltd - who purchased Tunstall for £510 Million in 2008. Tunstall are a Telecare provider. Tunstall provides services that allow the elderly to be able to be monitored remotely. Chief executive of Tunstall supported Andrew Lansley's bill. Following the takeover in 2008, Tunstall were awarded a three-year contract for services to NHS North Yorkshire and North. Tunstall have also been given a framework agreement to provide telecare, telehealth and telecoaching to NHS services, which forms part of Andrew Lansley's vision for developing telecare across the UK. The framework agreement began on 16th of August 2010. Has voted on 27.52% of votes in the Lords, below average amongst Lords. Voted on the Health and Social Care bill.
54. Lord Patten of Barnes: Adviser to private equity firm Bridgepoint. The company who also have Alan Milburn the former Secretary of State for Health under Tony Blair, as chair of the board, have been involved in 17 healthcare deals over recent years and you can see their latest portfolio in health here. Eight of these companies remain as their current investments, which include four in the UK at a combined investment worth over £1.1 billion. For more, click here. Purchased Oasis Healthcare for £185 million in March 2013. See article on him here.
55. Lord Popat - Conservative - Founder of TLC group Ltd who run private care homes. Lord Popat gave David Cameron a donation as a gift for £25,000 a week after the Conservatives' unveiled their health 'reforms'. David Cameron made businessman a peer shortly after getting into ten Downing street. Voted on the Health and Social Care bill loyally.
Donations: According to the electoral commission, Lord Popat has given £43,700 to Conservative Central party in the years 2010/11.
56. Lord Ribeiro: Conservative - Adviser on hospital reorganisation to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). PWC is heavily involved in consultancy services to the NHS and gets paid for setting up contracts amongst many other services.
57. Viscount Ridley: Conservative – appointed February 8th 2013 – shares in Diageo plc (drinks) – (See Andrew Lansley) - Johnson & Johnson Inc (pharmaceuticals)
58. Lord Saatchi - A partner and shares in M&C Saatchi plc - a marketing company. Involved in multiple campaign projects for the government including the Change4Life project aimed at promoting healthier living to tackle obesity. M&C Saatchi also worked for PPP healthcare, AXA insurance. Saatchi have multiple pharmaceutical clients, including; Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck. There website says: 'We transform raw data about life-changing brands into real meaning for healthcare professionals.' Has voted in 15.33% of votes in the house - well below average. Voted on key parts of the Health and Social Care bill.
59. Earl of Selborne: Shares in Prudential, which offers private health insurance.
60. Lord Sheikh: Chairman and director of Macmillan Sheikh plc - insurance and financial services which offers private health insurance - voted loyally on Health and Social care bill.
61. Lord Sheppard - Has shares in Diageo, a drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. No, you can't make it up. Lansley used to hold a directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients.
62. Lord Swinfen - Unpaid director of Swinfen Charitable Trust who have American Telemedicine Association as their partners for global crisis work using telehealth technology. Lord Swinfen is also an unpaid director of The American Telemedicine Association, which has multiplemembers who supply the NHS and private health care. The members according to the website: 'Play a special role in shaping the future of the telemedicine industry. The American Telemedicine Association has written a new legislative proposal to the American congress to expand the use of telemedicine. Voted loyally on Health and Social Care bill. Telecare is expanding throughout the NHS as a way of treating people from home. These companies that are part of the American Telemedicine Association are set to benefit.
63. Lord Tugendhat - Conservative: Shares in MetLife, which is America's largest life insurance company also operates in the UK. It offers accident protection for clinical health care workers, to cover specified infectious illnesses contracted at work for those who work in the UK health care industry.It also offers health insurance. Set to benefit from the Health and Social Care bill. Has voted in 25.43% of votes in this House with this affiliation — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip) - Voted loyally for the Health and Social Care bill. Supported large chunks of the bill, but spoke out against the top-down re-organisation.
Quotes on the bill: 'The Government's mistake was to introduce a Bill that sought to impose a massive programme of management and structural change on top of an ambitious cost-cutting programme.' Declared his interest as chairman of the Imperial College healthcare trust, but not of his shareholdings in MetLife.
Adviser to Trilantic Capital Partners, a private equity firm “active” in healthcare.
64. Lord Wade - Director, unpaid of RisingStars Growth Fund Ltd an early stage venture capital company - The fund prefers to invest in amongst other sectors, healthcare. Rising Stars Growth Fund invests in multiple healthcare companies that supply the NHS. Has voted in 28.33% of votes in this House with this affiliation — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
65. Lord Wakeham: Conservative - Advisor to L.E.K. Consulting, which specialises in helping private healthcare companies identify "growth and new business development" and "opportunities with the government".
66. Lord Waldegrave - Tory Adviser, UBS Investment Bank UBS bank, whose healthcare di5ision earned the firm over $1billion since 2005. Fellow Tory peer Lord Garel-Jones is MD of UBS bank. Has voted in 7.88% of votes in this House with this affiliation — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip) - Voted in key votes on the Health and Social care bill. Director of Biotech Growth Trust plc - which is managed by Orbimed. OrbiMed is the world's largest healthcare-dedicated investment firm, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management.
67. Lord Wasserman - Conservative - Shares in Diageo plc an alcohol drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. No, you can't make it up. Lansley used to hold a directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients. Shares in Johnson & Johnson Inc, which supplies the NHS. Shares in Procter & Gamble Co, which supplies the NHS. Walgreen Company - American pharmaceutical company. For more on Walgreens. The bill will give pharmaceuticals even more diverse healthcare providers to build relationships with. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill.
68. Baroness Wheatcroft: Conservative: Business Consultant, DLA Piper (legal services) a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care sectors”. DLA Piper, which advised ministers on the failed £12 billion IT project for the NHS. Member of the Advisory Board, Pelham Bell Pottinger (financial and corporate communications) - Bell Pottinger whose lobbying clients include Southern Cross, BT Health and AstraZeneca. For more on Pottinger see Lord Pottinger. Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill.
69. Lord Wolfson - Conservative - Shares in Cable & Wireless plc - Cable & Wireless solutions for the Health Sector are 'intended to meet all the communications requirements of the health service, from the largest Trusts to the smallest GP surgeries. Some offer special features, and the service levels are available exclusively to NHS customers.' The services have already been selected through the NHS procurement procedure
70. Lord
Young - Lord Young is Director, shareholder and
principal investor in TSSI security. It
supplies equipment to the MOD, the NHS, the General Medical Council,
universities, pharmaceutical firms, banks and corporations. Its blue
chip customer list
includes the NHS with a NHS smartcard system. TSSI were responsible for the
first ever electronic database of doctors. The NHS Occupational Health Smart
Card Scheme (OHSC) was sponsored by the Dept of Health and newly
created NHS Employers in 2001.The scheme was expanded in 2005 to include
graduating medical students and in 2006 trusts were able to update records
without doctors having to present their smart cards. NHS Employers
Guidance for doctors on
Smart Cards:
TSSI clients include Ramsay
Healthcare.
Chairman of Camcom Medical –
which has moved into
healthcare through medical manufacturing.
KYP Holdings ltd (Marketing) – Shareholdings - KYP is a global marketing company based in London,
New York and China which only launched in 2005 but has major clients, some of which are in the
healthcare industry. PR newswire states ‘Kyp's
approach is grounded in consumer psychology and refined by creating custom
solutions for an impressive list of leading brands including Procter &
Gamble, AstraZeneca’. ‘Other shareholders participating included The Right
Honorable Lord David Young of Graffham’.
Liberal Democrats
71. Lord Alliance: Shares in Huntsworth plc - a company whose CEO is Lord Chadlington - which £15,500 to the party in August last year and has given money every year since 2008. Denied it at first but Electoral Commission found them out. The same company that had Baroness Cumberledge as one of their non-executive directors. Heavily involved in lobbying and PR. Article on Lord Alliance here.
Donations: Lord Alliance according to the electoral commission has given £697,440.48 to the Liberal Democrats through their central party and local party. Also gave £2,000 to UK Liberty league a Free market collective.
72. Lord Clement-Jones: Partner in DLA Piper, a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care sectors”. DLA Piper counts Southern Cross amongst its clients. Lord Clement-Jones nominated Lord Hameed for his peerage, a nomination supported by Lord Dholakia. Lord Hameed sits on the board of Alpha hospitals, part of the Alpha Healthcare (C&C Alpha/C&C business solutions) group. The Alpha group has made significant donations to the Liberal Democrat party. In 2008, Lord Clement-Jones was the party treasurer. The Times exposed Lord Clement-Jones as being the man who nominated Lord Hameed, after the peer had originally said he had 'no idea.' Ownership of Alpha is usually assigned to Bhanu Dhruv Choudhrie who were accused of brokering an israeli arms deal.
73. Lord Lee: Shares in United Drug plc (Pharmaceuticals) - Provide home-based pharmacy care for patients covered by the NHS as a joint venture from 2009 with Medco Health Solutions.
74. Lord Lester: Has shares in Investor AB an investment company that invests in healthcare companies amongst other sectors. One company is Gambro, a global medical technology company, which sells its products to the NHS. Voted loyally with the bill amendments.
75. Lord Rennard: Director, British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) - Voted loyally on the Health and Social Care bill - The BHTA's purpose, as a trade association, is to ensure that the market for healthcare and assistive technologies is competitive, profitable and well-regulated. They work in partnership with industry, government, and other stakeholders. Set up a communications company with his wife called Rennard & McTegart Ltd. through this company provides public affairs advice to the British Healthcare Trade Association. Rennard & McTegart Ltd provide management, campaign, communications and fund raising consultancy.
76. Lord Sharman: Is the chairman of Aviva, has directorship and Shareholdings in Aviva plc - his being chairman is not registered in the register of interests - Aviva sells health insurance and will likely benefit from any increase in privatisation - they promote how you don't have to have waiting times if you take out insurance with them. Dr Doug Wright, principal clinical consultant at Aviva Health UK, said "I think we could start to see waiting lists increase again, especially for some of the elective procedures that are within the traditional medical insurance territory," Dr Wright said. Earlier this month, a spokesman for the Association of British Insurers noted that health insurance could be a "very useful product" for many people in the UK to take advantage of.
77. Lord Steel: Non-executive Director, General Mediterranean Holding SA is a Business group with activities in amongst other sectors Trading & Pharmaceuticals. The http://www.gmhsa.com/images/spacer.gifIndustrial, Trading & Pharmaceuticals part is split into two companies of interest. Meditech UK Ltd has software currently installed at ten medical facilities in the UK including the NHS. MEDITECH is the leading supplier of healthcare information systems in North America. The other company is Crescent Pharma Ltd which directly and indirectly supplies a wide range of major distributors and customers within the UK, including the NHS.
78. Lord Taverne: Chairman of private health insurer Axa Sun Life’s monitoring board. Shares in Unilever whose European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company. Shares in GlaxoSmithKline, who provide products to the NHS. Has shares in a company called Informa which provides authoritative research and analysis and up-to-the-minute business news, comment and events for all sectors of the healthcare, medical and life sciences communities. They present their findings to clients who then invest based on their reports. Has shares in Legal and General, which provides healthcare insurance.
79. Lord Vallance: Member, International Advisory Board, Allianz SE (insurance) - company offers medical insurance. Also Member, Supervisory Board, Siemens AG - which supplies medical equipment to the NHS. Voted loyally - and against Lord Rea's proposal of declining to give the bill a second reading.
80. Lord Watson: Chairman, Havas Media UK - MPG Media Contacts is an integrated agency, 100% owned by Havas Media. In April 2011 - MPG Media Contacts won the integrated media planning and buying account for Circle Health, the healthcare partnership that runs and builds hospitals.The account is worth just under £1m, according to MPG Media Contacts, and the scope of the work covers offline and online channels in the UK.
Circle, which became the first private UK firm to run an NHS hospital last year when it won the tender to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital, plans to build a network of 30 hospitals across the UK in the coming years.
Paul Frampton, managing director, MPG Media Contacts, said: "We're proud to be working with Circle, which does an excellent job in the Healthcare sector.
"Our primary aim will be to deliver them an integrated media strategy that will bring them real value this year."
Labour Lords
81. Baroness Billingham: Regular contributions to Cumberlege Eden & Partners a training company for training NHS personnel and is a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry.
82. Lord Carter: The head of the increasingly influential Competition and Cooperation Panel, is a7n adviser to Warburg Pincus International Ltd, a private equity firm with significant investments in the healthcare industry. Chairman Patrick Carter, or Lord Carter of Coles to give him his full title, was the founder of Westminster Health Care, a leading private nursing home company. He is also the Chair of McKesson Information Solutions Ltd, which delivers IT to “virtually every NHS organisation”, the chair of Primary Group Ltd, a Bermudan based private equity company, and a substantial shareholder in, among other companies, B-Plan Information Systems Ltd, which has also benefited from the increased need for large scale IT systems that the introduction of an internal market to the NHS has brought with it (see the interview with Frank Wood, of King’s foundation trust, where B-Plan has worked, in the last news update). Carter’s register of interests in the House of Lords also lists him as an adviser to Warburg Pincus International Ltd, a private equity firm, which has significant investments in the healthcare industry. It even rescued United Healthcare from financial ruin in 1987 and helped it to become one of the largest healthcare companies in the world. He can now help it to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the government’s reforms. - http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3934
83. Viscount Chandos: Director of investment management company Sand Eire limited - who invest amongst other sectors, in Healthcare.
84. Lord Darzi: Labour - Former surgeon drafted into government as a health minister by Gordon Brown when he was PM. Now an adviser to medical technology firm GE Healthcare.
Quotes on bill: he would find it 'difficult at this stage' to vote for blocking the Bill...'I am speaking as a surgeon, not a politician.'
85. Lord Davies of Abersoch: A non-executive Director of Diageo. Lansley used to hold a directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients. Diageo plc are an alcohol drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. Vice Chairman and partner in Corsair Capital llc, who have amongst others Axis Capital holdings in their portfolio, providers of healthcare insurance products. Shares in HSBC who are heavily involved in PFI hospitals.
86. Lord Eatwell: Economic Adviser at Warburg Pincus & Co International Ltd, a private equity firm with significant investments in the healthcare industry. Economic advisor to Palamon Capital Partners LLP, who also heavily invest in private healthcare.
87. Lord Elder: Advisor to pharmaceutical company Daval International Ltd
88. Lord Evans of Watford: Labour - Director of healthcare property firm Care Capital.
89. Lord Filkin: Labour - Adviser to outsourcing giant Serco, heavily involved in NHS services.
90. Baroness Ford: Chairman of private healthcare company, Barchester Healthcare Ltd. Part of the NHS Partners Network. Chairman of Grove Ltd, a holding company for for Barchester Health.
91. Lord Gavron: Has shares in Serco, Smith & Nephew plc, Diageo, Unilever, Astrazeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Rhoen-Klinikum AG (private healthcare), Roche Holdings AG, Fresenius Medical Care AG, Sanofi-Aventis, Vodafone Group plc, Prudential Life.
92. LordGoldsmith: Partner in International law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, whose clients include: Bayer; Bristol Myers Squibb; Forest Laboratories; Galderma; GlaxoSmithKline; Hisamitsu; Johnson & Johnson; Merck; Nestlé; Novartis; L’Oréal; Pfizer; Schering-Plough; and Tenet Healthcare, among others.'
93. LordGrocott: Trainer at Cumberlege Eden & Partners: (See Baroness Cumberlege).
94. Lord Harris of Haringey: Former Senior adviser to business services giant KPMG, who are heavily involved in implementing changes in the NHS and its commissioning groups Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 2001. Remunerated by Cumberlege Connections Ltd for occasional participation in training events. See Baroness Cumberlege. One client Airwave through his own company Toby harris Associates provides services to Ambulance and health
95. Lord Hollick: Has shares in multiple companies involved in healthcare, which include: Diageo, Ambea, HCA, Capsugel.
96. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Consultant and Trainer at Cumberlege Connections Ltd: See Baroness Cumberlege.
97. Lord Hutton of Furness: Ex-health minister is an adviser to law firm Eversheds. Clients include care homes and private hospitals.
98. Baroness Jay: Occasional participation in seminars for Cumberlege Connections. Company that is a training company NHS personnel and a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry.
99. Lord Kestenbaum: Member of the board of directors of marketing agency Profero. Andrew Lansley was a director of Profero until the end of 2009. Diageo an alcohol company was one of their clients which went onto to be awarded a contract to talk about alcohol to midwives so that they can advise Mothers. Profero have contributed to the NHS Change4Life campaign to get more people to exercise.
100. Baroness Kingsmill: Non exec director of Korn/Ferry International, an executive recruitment firm. Among the diverse range of healthcare organisations they have secured and developed top healthcare executives for are in hospital systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies, healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies. Two other peers work for them. Deputy Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which claims to have “been at the heart of shaping [healthcare] reforms and working with clients to respond to the opportunities they present”.
101. Lord Leitch: Chairman. Non Exec director of Bupa.
Quote: ‘When we debate healthcare in the UK, all too often the focus is on the NHS alone. Yet the independent sector is more important than ever, providing services directly to patients, residents, insurers, and to the NHS itself. Going forward, all of us must think in terms of partnership, not rivalry.’ Health bill in 2008.
102. Baroness Liddell: Associate member of Bupa.
103. Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale: Member of the advisory board to accountants and auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers. See Baroness Kingsmill.
104. Baroness McDonagh: Non Executive Director of Standard Life plc, which offers private health insurance.
105. Baroness Mallalieu: Has shares in Diageo (See Andrew Lansley), and pharmaceutical giant Reckitt Benckiser. Shares in Oryx International a closed-end investment company incorporated in Guernsey, which invests in healthcare.
106. Lord Malloch-Brown: Chairman of FTI Global Affairs an advisory firm, which helps companies in the healthcare sector amongst others. On his appointment in 2010 he said: "Lord Malloch-Brown said, "The global economy has reached a tipping point, with Western companies under great pressure to shift their footprint towards emerging markets."
107. Lord Mandelson: Senior Advisor at Lazard Ltd, an international advisory investment bank, which includes the area of healthcare.
108. Lord Moonie: Advisor for Edinburgh-based healthcare and biosecurity company Americum. Former senior advisor to pharmaceutical company Pharmathene Ltd. Lord Moonie, previously accused in cash for influence scandal.
109. Baroness Morgan of Huyton: Ex-director of failed care home firm Southern Cross. Member of the advisory Committee board for Virgin Group Holdings Ltd.
110. Lord Myners: Non-Executive Director of RIT Capital partners plc, who according to their annual report invest extensively in healthcare. Also has shares in company.
111. Lord Noon: Director of Nutrahealth plc is a holding company which is 100% owned subsidiary of Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd, an Indian based healthcare company since November 2010. The businesses operated in the UK are Biocare, Brunel Health and Totally Nourish. Shares in Casualty Plus Ltd - private walk-in clinic.
112. Lord Prescott: Fee received from Civica plc (25 January 2012) as payment for taking part in a panel discussion at a conference hosted by Civica at the Manchester International Conference Centre, Manchester; travel expenses were also paid for by Civica plc
More than 70 NHS Commissioners use Civica Health & Social Care's industry standard SLAM NHS Commissioning software to help manage service level agreements with providers, including Payment by Results, local tariffs, local agreements, block payments and other variants.
113. Lord Puttnam: Director of Huntsworth communications group. global public relations and integrated healthcare communications group. Did not stand for the board this year (2012). Deputy chair of Profero (See Andrew Lansley). Senior Non-executive director of Promethean World plc a technological hardware company, which according to its annual reports a new division was created, which amongst other sectors included healthcare.
114. Lord Sainsbury of Turville: Has shares in multiple companies involved in private healthcare including: Becton Dickinson, Hospira Inc, Vodafone plc (See Baroness James), JP Morgan (See Lord Renwick), Quest Diagnostics Inc, Johnson & Johnson.
115. Lord Sawyer: Chair of Norlife, part of a government led initiative called LIFT, set up as partnership project in the county of Norfolk creating PFI projects, which include
116. Lord Simpson: (Currently on a leave of absence) Shares in multiple healthcare companies including Reckitt Benckiser, Standard Chartered Bank plc, GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone plc.
117. Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean: International consultant for legal firm DLA Piper a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care sectors”. DLA Piper counts Southern Cross amongst its clients and advised on the failed £12 billion NHS I.T. project.
118. Lord Warner: Labour - Former adviser to Apax Partners, one of the leading global investors in the healthcare sector. Current director of Sage Advice Ltd. Works as an adviser to Xansa, a technology firm, and Byotrol, an antimicrobial company, which both sell services or products to the NHS” and was “paid by DLA Piper, which advised ministers on the £12 billion IT project for the NHS” projects that he was responsible for when he was a government minister. Lord Warner explains his role here. Used to be an advisor to PA Consulting in 2009. PA Consulting have worked with the new Clinical Commissioning Groups. Other NHS involvement includes, training, helping commissioners in North-East London, performance management.
Crossbench Peers
119. Lord Adebowale: Non-executive director and shares in St Vincent's healthcare consulting company that offers consultancy to the healthcare market. Their partners include: BT Health, IOCOM and AXSys.
120. Lord Birt: Advisor to Private equity company, Terra Firma Capital Partners who purchased Four Seasons Health Care in July 2012, the largest private UK health company, who operate 447 Care Homes and 58 specialist care centres.
121. Lord Boyce: Non-executive director of global engineering and design company WS Atkins - who were involved in multiple PFI projects and NHS building projects including, Tayside Murray Royal Hospital, Ayrshire & Arran Community Health Trust, Cummock Community hospital, and Doncaster & South Humber healthcare. They gained £14.4 million from selling their PFI stake.
Chairman of D Group advisory board. D Group is a business development and networking group, which according to its website is 'dedicated to generating revenues and promoting the objectives of its members.' They have over 70 members consisting of UK and International leading business, though they are not listed. However in their testimonial page one company is mentioned BT group plc, which is one of the largest suppliers of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system overhaul. The testimonial of BT group PLC says 'The D Group provides effective and discreet access to influential thinkers and policy makers on important topics.' The site is currently being rebuilt, so some of these details may change on the new site.
122. Lord Chorley: Shares in Pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca, private health insurance providers Prudential and Legal and General and banking group Standard Chartered, which invests in healthcare companies and offers health insurance. Shares in Reckitt Benckiser, in Unilever, and IBM, the latter supply software to the NHS.
123. Lord Currie of Marylebone: Chairman of Semperian, an investment vehicle, which owns a portfolio of mature Public Private Partnership investments, including hospitals.
124. Lord Elystan: Has bonds held in HSBC-controlled companies - According to a Times report in 2008, HSBC made almost £100 million from managingNHS hospitals where where contractors charge taxpayers inflated bills for simple tasks, such as £210 to fit an electrical socket. HSBC has a controlling stake of several hospitals, including outright ownership of three NHS hospitals, located in Barnet, Central Middlesex, and West Middlesex. HSBC used a legal loophole to handle the profits from PFI schemes to a tax haven in Guernsey. HSBC offer health insurance. Lord Elystan also hold shares in Santander which offers health insurance and funds heavily in healthcare projects and companies.
125. Earl of Errol: Chair on the Advisory board of software intelligence company Flexeye Ltd. The company develop security applications and platforms, which supplies the NHS. The Company's healthcare website says: 'Flexeye's Health Information Tool (HIP) is a communication tool designed especially for the healthcare system.' Paid by Nihilent Technologies PVT Ltd in unspecified capacity, an IT, consulting and outsourcing company. Worked on multiple healthcare projects in multiple countries.
126. Baroness Grey-Thompson: 'Advisory' work for official Olympic sponsors and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The role is contractual to give internal talks to staff and PR regarding their activation programme. The programme involves, a partnership with NHS London to inspire people with a variety of long-term conditions to to understand the benefits of an active lifestyle. Has given two speaking engagements paid for by Proctor and Gamble, paid on an ad hoc basis and not contractual.
127. Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank: Member of the advisory board of Cannacord Genuity a global capital markets division of Cannacord financial Inc. Their websitestates: 'Cannacord Genuity focuses on public and private healthcare companies, at all stages of development.'
128. Lord Hameed: Chair of private secure mental health hospital group Alpha Hospitals, which is investing in a new acute private hospital in central London. Alpha hospitals. part of the Alpha Healthcare (C&C Alpha/C&C business solutions) group. The Alpha group has made significant donations to the Liberal Democrat party. In 2008, Lord Clement-Jones was the party treasurer. Lord Clement-Jones nominated Lord Hameed to become a peer.
129. Lord Hannay: Advisor to Frontier Strategy Group, who provide economic consulting based on emerging markets. They list multiple pharmaceutical and healthcare companies as their clients. Has shares in Lionheart Investment Fund who offer individual or group healthcare coverage.
130. Lord Hastings: Global head of Citizenship and Diversity for global tax, Audit, and advisory firm KPMG. The firm is heavily involved in the new NHS structural changes, including GP commissioning groups. KPMG's head of Global Health and advisor to Cameron famously said the NHS would be shown 'nomercy'.
131. Baroness Hayman: Has shares in Standard Chartered plc, which offers healthcare through Aviva for its customers, and general health insurance.
132. Baroness Hogg of Kettlethorpe: Chair of Frontier Economics, a consultancy that advises private sector clients on the impact of healthcare reforms and how "to shape regulatory environments".
133. Lord Jones of Birmingham: Chairman of software solutions company Neutrinos Concepts Ltd, which has run a couple of trials in NHS trust hospitals. He also has shares in the company. Senior advisor for HSBC plc and Chairman on the International Business Advisory board for the same bank. (See Crossbench Lord Elystan for more on HSBC). A senior advisor executive recruitment agency Harvey Nash Group plc. The Harvey Nash 'Healthcare Practice' part of the site states: We support leading healthcare organisations in securing the right Executive...' Is an unpaid associate of Bupa.
134. Lord Kerr of Kinlochard: Member of the Investment advisory board of investment fund for Edinburgh Partners. A report by the group reveals healthcare as their main sector of interest representing 22.7% of their allocation.
135. Lord Kilclooney: Shares in Vodafone - Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner.
136. Lord Levene: Holds shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, which is heavily involved in the healthcare sector.
137. Baroness Manningham-Buller: Has given speaking engagements for KPMG, Artemis, Merck, GE healthcare and Standard Chartered Bank all involved in private healthcare.
138: Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge - (Deceased 5th of July 2012) Chairman of Nomura International plc. Nomura code, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Europe Holdings plc, who Lord Marshall is also a chairman is a leading European investment bank specialising in healthcare.
139. Lord Mendelsohn - Sole shareholder and director of Europa Hospitals Group Ltd. Unclear currently what exactly the company is - was incorporated September 2013 - See article here .
140: Lord Millett (Currently on leave of absence) - Has shares in Diageo - (See Lord Wasserman). Shares in GlaxoSmithKline.
141. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein – Crossbench – shares in Astrazeneca (Pharma), Vodafione plc. Vodafone produced a report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointed Vodafone UK as its communications partner. Shares in Standard life (private health insurance).
142. Duke of Norfolk - (Currently on leave of absence) Shares in Cardionetics who sell ECG monitors. The heart monitor hardware is supplied to the NHS. Shares in Helperby Therapeutics plc, which is developing a new antibiotic processes.
143. Lord O'Donnell: Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive of Toronto Dominion Bank, which has a healthcare area which includes health insurance cover. In addition the bank has a healthcare division covering liability. The Peer began in the Lords from 10th January 2012.
He joined Frontier Economic (Europe) as a Senior Advisor at the end of last year to advise on ‘all aspects of Frontier’s work.’’
Frontier's involvement in healthcare includes regular advice to public and private sector institutions on ‘healthcare reform'. Frontier’s Health practice advises public sector and private clients on issues relating to the reform, restructuring and operation of healthcare markets.
144. Lord Owen - Shares in Abbot Laboratories global healthcare company - supplies NHS with Lab equipment, reagents.
145. Lord Palmer - Shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline
146. Lord Powell of Bayswater: Chairman of the advisory board of Bowmark Capital who invest in healthcare amongst other sectors. Member of the International Advisory board for health insurance providers ACE insurance.
147. Lord Quirk: Has shares in pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Astrazeneca and Walgreen. For more on Walgreens. Shares in Standard chartered who offer health insurance.
148. Lord Renwick of Clifton: Vice Chairman of global Investment giants JP Morgan. his chairmanships is of both JP Morgan Cazenove and JP Morgan Europe investment banking. JP Morgan are major players in healthcare. According to their website they serve: 1,100 hospitals, 10 of the top 10 health insurers, thousands of physicians groups, top five pharmacy benefit managers, six of the top eight pharmacy retailers. Also has shares in JP Morgan.
149. Lord St John: (Deceased 2nd March 2012) Non-executive Director of PharmaSys Ltd, a web-based pharmacy management system. Non-Executive Director of Albion Ventures VCT - which has multiple healthcare companies on its portfolio. Consultant for 2e2 Group plc, an IT solution provider, which has multiple contracts across the healthcare spectrum, including the NHS.
150. Lord Skidelsky: Shares in fund managers Janus Capital Group, who invest in the healthcare sector amongst other areas. Wrote in the Spectator in 2000, on an article titled: 'Let's go private.' In there he promotes the idea of encouraging users to get a tax-incentive to go private.
151. Lord Stevenson Crossbench – Former chair of HBOS from 2001-2009, during which it collapsed and seen as having "Responsibility [for the near-collapse of the bank] lies particularly with Lord Stevenson" the Banking Commission.
Lord Stevenson
has a 4% shareholding in Lexington Communications
– who are involved in healthcare.
Saxton Bampfylde
headhunter firm, which has recruited
people into key positions
throughout the NHS and state on their website "It’s our job to
seek out the people who lead, shape and direct organisations."
Has shares in
Aircraft Medical invent, make and sell specialised medical equipment. In
2008 they won
"one of the largest Research & Development funding packages from the
UK Departments of Health through the Health Technology Devices (HTD)
programme."
152. Lord Sugar: Amscreen Plc is part of Lord Sugar’s Amshold Group of companies, which he owns. The company provides T.V screens into places where there is a captive audience and places targeted marketing alongside the other content the organisation may use. These screens are placed in GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists throughout the UK and in Europe.
Donated £333,650.84 to Labour party
152. Lord Sugar: Amscreen Plc is part of Lord Sugar’s Amshold Group of companies, which he owns. The company provides T.V screens into places where there is a captive audience and places targeted marketing alongside the other content the organisation may use. These screens are placed in GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists throughout the UK and in Europe.
Amscreen and BMI
Healthcare have a contract together to sponsor live weather
feeds to advise patients on their ‘healthcare choice’. This sponsorship deal
will reach 3 million patients across the Amscreen network. Nigel Moon, Head of
Marketing at BMI Healthcare has said “This advertising and sponsorship package
provides us with a great opportunity to feature BMI Healthcare, our local hospitals
and services to a highly targeted audience at a key time in the patient
journey.” BMI Healthcare joins other leading brands such as Unilever, GSK and
Pfizer who are able to reach captive audiences in GP surgeries across the
healthcare network.
Now Lord Sugar’s
son who runs Amscreen has teamed up with a face recognition company called
Quividi. This technology
will be able to ‘determine the gender, age, date, time and volume of the
viewers.’ This according to Lord Sugar’s son said “brands deserve to know not
just an estimation of how many eyeballs are viewing their adverts, but who they
are, too.” Maybe the public deserves to know who is monitoring them, and what
is happening to this data. Maybe the public deserves to be able to go to the GP
surgery and not be a target for advertisers.
Viglen Ltd –
shares – company provides I.T. services
to the NHS. supplying over 45 central and local government councils, including
a number of NHS and local education authorities, just under 70,000 computers
over the next two years. See article on Lord Sugar here.
154. Lord Turnball: Non-Executive Director of Prudential plc, who offer private health insurance. Non-executive Director of Frontier Economics, a consultancy that advises private sector clients on the impact of healthcare reforms and how "to shape regulatory environments". Has shares in Prudential plc
Bishops Lords
155. Bishop of Gloucester: Has shares in Standard Chartered Bank plc, which offers private healthcare insurance. ----------------------------------
MPs
Conservatives:
David Cameron - Nursing and care home tycoon Dolar Popat has given the Conservatives £209,000. The Ugandan-born dad-of-three has amassed an estimated £42million fortune as founder and chief of TLC Group, which provides services for the elderly. Mr Cameron made the businessman a peer shortly after entering No10 in May 2010, and Lord Popat’s donations include a £25,000 gift registered a week after the Tories’ health reforms were unveiled last July.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/01/19/nhs-reform-leaves-tory-backers-with-links-to-private-healthcare-firms-set-for-bonanza-115875-22859373/
In 2005 Cameron received £1,500 from Care home property company Chiltern Care Holdings - electoral commission
Andrew Lansley - Conservative - John Nash, the former chairman (until 2010) of Care UK, gave £21,000 to fund Andrew Lansley’s personal office in November 2009. In a recent interview, a senior director of the firm said that 96 per cent of Care UK’s business, which amounted to more than £400 million last year, came from the NHS. - Hedge fund boss John Nash is one of the major Conservative donors with close ties to the healthcare industry.
He and wife Caroline gave £203,500 to the party over the past five years. The “hedgie” is also a founder of City firm Sovereign Capital, which runs a string of private healthcare firms. Fellow founder Ryan Robson is another major Tory donor who has given the party £252,429.45.
His donations included £50,000 to be a member of the party’s “Leader’s Group”, a secretive cash-for-access club. The would-be MP, who tried but failed to get selected as the election candidate in Bracknell, is managing partner at Sovereign Capital. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/01/19/nhs-reform-leaves-tory-backers-with-links-to-private-healthcare-firms-set-for-bonanza-115875-22859373/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6989408/Andrew-Lansley-bankrolled-by-private-healthcare-provider.html
In 2008 Andrew Lansley received a donation from Julian Schild used to support his office in his capacity as Shadow secretary for health. Julian Schild’s family made £184million in 2006 by selling hospital bed-makers Huntleigh Technology.
Andrew Lansley’s wife, Sally Low, is founder and managing director of Low Associates (“We make the link between the public and private sectors”). A Daily Telegraph report in February records that the Low Associates website lists pharmaceuticals companies SmithKline Beecham, Unilever and P&G among its clients. It also records Ms Low’s assertion that the company “does not work with any client who has interests in the health sector”. The website currently contains no reference to the drug firms listed above. http://www.channel4.com/news/andrew-lansleys-nhs-plans-still-in-good-health
Circle the ambitious private healthcare firm run and owned by clinicians, has recruited a former aide to health secretary Andrew Lansley as head of communications. Christina Lineen spent two years working for Lansley, who became health secretary after the general election. The company’s income is derived from private patients, either on insurance schemes or paying for themselves, but it also treats NHS patients. - http://www.publicaffairsnews.com/no_cache/home/uk-news/news-detail/newsarticle/private-healthcare-firm-circle-recruits-ex-lansley-aide-to-head-comms/2/?tx_ttnews
Lansley was a paid director of the marketing agency Profero, who had Diageo Guiness as one of their clients. He gave up the director ship in 2009. In 2008, a senior NHS executive appearing in a commons committee, accused Daigeo of flouting voluntary agreements on responsible drinking labelling. In 2010 Lansley invited fast food companies and Diageo in for discussions on how to tackle obseity, and binge drinking. In 2011 Diageo were given responsibility to pay for training to offer advice on the dangers of alcohol. No, you couldn't make it up.
Quote: "The NHS is not for sale, there will be no privatisation."
Harriet Baldwin: Conservative MP for West Worcestershire. Former managing director of JP Morgan Asset Management. JP Morgan are major players in healthcare. According to their website they serve: 1,100 hospitals, 10 of the top 10 health insurers, thousands of physicians groups, top five pharmacy benefit managers, six of the top eight pharmacy retailers. Has shares in JP Morgan Employee 98 Trust. JP Morgan heavily invest in healthcare.
Gregory Barker: Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle. In 2008 held shares in HR company Penna plc. In February, HFMA and Penna plc partnered to deliver HR services to the NHS - Was an operating advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, LP, a private equity firm with health companies in their portfolio. Had shares in Quester VCT 5 plc a venture Capital with multiple investments in healthcare companies.
Jake Berry: Has registered interests in Top legal 500 firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (UK) LLP, as a consultant advising on client services, business development and on other specific matters. They work with multiple NHS trusts and local authorities regarding PFI and PPP programs.
Graham Brady: MP for Altrincham and Sale Former advisor on marketing and business strategy to PA Consulting, a management consultancy company. PA Consulting have worked with the new Clinical Commissioning Groups. Other NHS involvement includes, training, helping commissioners in North-East London, performance management. The company is not without criticism having lost a memory stick containing details of thousands of convicted people.
Simon Burns Conservative - Chelmsford MP - attended an oncology conference paid for by Aventis Pharma - a five-day trip to the US funded by a leading drug firm.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/01/28/tory-party-links-to-private-healthcare-companies-115875-22880670/
Nick de Bois, Conservative MP for Enfield North - De Bois is the majority shareholder in Rapier Design Group, an events management company heavily involved with the private medical and pharmaceutical industries, and whose clients include leading names such as AstraZeneca. The company was established by the Tory MP in 1998. Last year it had a turnover of £13m. Last April, Rapier Design purchased Hampton Medical Conferences to “strengthen the company’s position in the medical sector”. It is involved in running conferences and other events for private-sector clients, and for NHS hospitals.
A number of the company’s clients are “partners” of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), a lobby group supporting the health secretary’s plans. Rapier Design Group’s biggest clients stand to profit when the NHS is opened up to wider private-sector involvement. The GP commissioning consortium for south-west Kent, covering 49 GP practices and known as Salveo, has already signed a contract with the pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca aimed at improving diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/29/lansley-ally-shareholding-lobby-firm
Quote on bill: ‘To meet the challenge we needed to introduce decentralization and competition, the two catalysts for efficiency. In both of these areas, the legislation is necessary, even in its compromised form.’
Andrew Bridgen: Non-executive chairman of fresh vegetable distributor company AB produce PLC. The company is listed on the NHS supply chain. In June 2011, Mr Bridgen claimed critics of the NHS reforms were made up of 'Stalinist protectionist elements.'
Steve Brine – Mp for Winchester – According to the electoral register, received £14,999 in three separate payments £5,000 19/01/2011, £4,999 17/04/2012, £5,000 22/03/2013 from Mr James R Lupton who was appointed Conservative party Co-Treasurer in February this year, has also given £350,000 to Conservative central party in last three years. He is Chairman of investment bankers, Greenhill Europe, who have considerable transaction experience and a global network of corporate relationships in the Healthcare sector.
Aidan Burley: MP for Cannock Chase: Received six bottles of wine from Hitachi consultants for a short speech he gave to a group of consultants on 11th March 2011. Hitachi Consulting UK is a leading government consulting company with an 18-year track record in the UK. They have extensive knowledge of the public sector, and many of their consultants have experience in the NHS. In 2010, they announced the completion of a delivery portal for Commissioning support for London (CSL). The creation of the new secure online portal provides National Health Service (NHS) commissioners with access to a set of tools to help them monitor how their providers are performing. This is another example of private company benefitting from the privatisation reforms of the NHS.
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Damian
Collins: MP for Folkstone and Hythe – Between 1999 and 2008 Mr
Collins worked for marketing agency M&C Saatchi. M&C Saatchi clients include PPP healthcare, AXA
insurance, Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck. See Lord Saatchi section. In 2008 he
joined Lexington Communications as a senior Counsel before leaving to become a
MP. Lexington Communications have a healthcare section,
which says ‘With the NHS never far from the headlines, our dedicated team of
healthcare communications consultants can advise you on how to successfully
interact with a diverse range of stakeholders - in Westminster, Whitehall, the
reformed NHS, across the patient group community and in the private sector – to
help achieve your goals… Help you build relationships with influencers at a
national level.’
They have multiple
fee-paying public consultancy clients in healthcare.
David Davis: MP for Haltemprice and Howden: Received a p ayment of £4,250 for a 6hr speaking engagement for private health insurance Aviva. (Registered 11 February 2012).
Jonathan Djanogly – Conservative MP - His office received payment of £1,900 on 01/11/2001 and declared it on 30/01/2002 from Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, 310-312 Dallow Road, Luton. The company manufactures medical, orthopaedic equipment and instruments for measuring and is part of Huntleigh International Holdings Limited of the same address. They are a member of the Getinge Group, a Swedish based group of companies who are split between Healthcare and Life sciences. The acquisition of Huntleigh by Getinge took place in 2007. In 2008, he had shares in private healthcare company Medicsight, and private health insurance Aviva PLC. In 2008 had shares in WPP Group, a marketing giant in healthcare.
Iain Duncan-Smith: MP for Chingford and Woodford Green. Has shares in hygiene technology company Byotrol plc, though no dividend received, which sells products to the NHS.
Philip Dunne: MP for Ludlow. In 2008 was a non-executive director for investment Baronsmead VCT 4 plc, and has shareholdings in the company, which according to its second-half 2011 report, has multiple investments in private healthcare companies including Vectura Group plc, Alere Inc, who work with many PCTs including the 'healthcheck programme,' and Tristel plc, a leading provider of infection control products into the NHS. Healthcare & Education make up 9% of investments.
Michael Fallon – Conservative MP for Sevenoaks – Former Director of Attendo AB 2008 – 2013 - a Swedish private health company offering care and social care. The register of interests show, he receives an annual fee of £13,954.88 net, for approximately 20hrs work. Bridgepoint the private equity firm which acquired Care UK, whose chairman John Nash bankrolled Andrew Lansley’s office just prior to the takeover, has also invested in Attendo AB. Will they get contracts in the UK if the bill? Judging by this list of scandals, lets hope not.
Mark Field: MP for Cities of London and Westminster. Board Advisor to Ellwood and Atfield; a specialist recruitment firm in the public affairs and communications sector. They recruit for NHS positions as well as private healthcare. The MP’s role includes, amongst other things includes; ‘introducing the company to opportunities.’ Company recruits for some public affairs positions in the NHS. In addition they are currently seeking an interim government affairs Officer, healthcare. The job involves working with ‘Government, regulators and other stakeholders to help promote and influence the healthcare industry within the UK.’
The press release announcing Mark Field's appointment as advisor said: ‘His experience, coupled with his political position, perfectly complements Ellwood & Atfield and reinforces the company’s position as the leading recruitment firm within communications and public affairs.’
On their public affairs page of their website they state: ‘With a careful, appropriate engagement strategy your organisation can thrive by shaping the political environment. Our network of contacts and relationships across this community in London, Brussels and Washington DC is unrivaled and we recruit more professionals in this area than any other firm in Europe.’
Liam Fox – Conservative MP and former defence secretary – became shadow health secretary in 1999 – employs Adam Werrity as a paid intern in 2004 – by this time Adam Werrity becomes a director of health consultancy firm ‘UK Health Ltd’ (now dissolved), while Liam Fox was shadow health secretary of which he and Liam Fox were shareholders. Werrity owned 11.5% of UK Health Group and Fox owned 2.3%. In 2005 a researcher based in Mr Fox’s office worked ‘exclusively’ for the now closed Atlantic Bridge ‘charity’, which Liam Fox was the founding member; Mr Werrity became director, and which had links to radical right-wing neocons in the U.S. The researcher received funding from Pfizer Inc. He claimed ‘she has no function in any health role.’ The researcher was Gabby Bertin, who is now David Cameron's press secretary. Received £5,000 to run his private office in October 2012 from investment company IPGL limited, who purchased healthcare pharma company Cyprotex.
George Freeman - His own business: http://www.4d-biomedical.com/ which is a specialist adviser on Healthcare markets, Technology development, Business strategy & Venture financing, working with NHS trusts. Speaking in Parliament on 11 November 2010 during the Policy For Growth debate he said, "The third is the national health service. I know from my own experience that we are sitting on billions of pounds-worth of patient data. Let us think about how we can unlock the value of those data around the world." See Hansard at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101111/debtext/101111-0003.htm
Mike Freer: Finchley and Golders Green: Provides strategic marketing advice for Care Matters, a financial planning company for care, which includes in care homes.
Richard Fuller: Bedford: Worked for L.E.K consulting from 1984 and intermittently until 2007. L.E.K consultancy specialises in helping private healthcare companies identify "growth and new business development" and "opportunities with the government". Chairman of Enterprise Care Group Ltd. Listed as social work without accommodation. Appears in staff nurse for jobs for nurses.
Richard Graham: Gloucester - His constituency office received received £3,000 from Circle investor, Mr Robin Crispin Odey on 03/12/2007. Richard Graham was elected MP for Gloucester at the last general election and like Odey has previously worked for Barings bank, which went bust in 1995. In total Odey has donated £222,000 to the Conservative party.
Dominic Grieve: Beaconsfield: In 2008. Shares in Reckitt Benckiser (See Lord Boswell), GlaxoSmithKline, Diageo (See Andrew Lansley), Astrazeneca, Standard Chartered (Health insurance.
William Hague: In 2008, William Hague was a non-executive director of IT company AMT-SYBEX, a position now held my Lord Coe. AMT-SYBEX are an IT supplier to the NHS. Former London Mayoral candidate Steven Norris is their chairman who sits on the Transport for London board.
Philip Hammond: Is a beneficiary of a trust who owns a controlling interest in healthcare and nursing home developer Castlemead Ltd. In 2008 he had shares in the company, of which he was a director from 1993-1995. The Castlemead website states: 'By building partnerships with GPs and PCTs we are able to offer a range of design and procurement solutions in particular via the 3PD (Third Party Developer) route...Castlemead has an excellent reputation for working with the NHS and as a long term investor in the sector, endeavours to build a positive working partnership with all stakeholders in a project.’
Mark Harper: Forest of dean: Electoral commission records show his constituency office received £5,000 on 09/02/2010 from Circle investor Mr Robin Crispin Odey just 3 months before the general election.
Nick Herbert - MP for Arundel & South Downs - Received donations from Caroline Nash - Ms Nash is the wife of John Nash who also funded Lansley's office when he was shadow health minister. He was Chairman of Care UK at the time. The donations were £15,000 in 2008 and in 2009. Electoral Commission.Jeremy Hunt: MP for South-West Surrey. Received a donation to his office of £3,000 in June 2012, just under 3 months from when he was mafe health secretary, from U.S-based hedge fund CEO Andrew Law. Mr Law is the CEO of Caxton Associates who as of November 2001, owned a market value of $217.659 million in healthcare. Andrew Law has given £231,530 to the Conservative party, all but £3,000 of this in 2012. Electoral Commission
Margot James: – Stourbridge: Co-founded public relations company, Shire Health Group. The company was sold to business partner Ogilvy & Mather for £4 million in 2004, with the Conservative MP Margot James appointed Head of European Healthcare for marketing parent WPP Group. She stood down from WPP in 2008. WPP are a marketing giant with a massive list of healthcare clients. One of their companies, ‘Grey Healthcare Group, boasts having 14 of the top 15 pharmaceutical companies as their clients.
Quote: 'GPs, nurses and patients need now to combine forces and ensure that the resistance to change they will encounter does not limit the improvements in care that are made possible by the Bill.' This quote is taken from an article written by Margot James for Huffington Post titled: Tackling Vested Interests in the NHS. She failed to mention her former role as head of European Healthcare for marketing for WPP.
‘I keep saying ‘we’, but I’m not really part of the industry anymore, but I still feel it.’ - when speaking at a conference hosted by Healthcare Communications Association.' - See article on Margot James here.
She has spoken at Big Pharma conferences since the 2010 election, saying that “the pharmaceutical industry remained very important to her and has a very special place in her heart”
Sajid Javid: (New - entry after Health bill vote) Conservative MP for Bromsgrove – Received £11,000
from Moundsley Healthcare Ltd registered
on May 29th 2013. Electoral
Commission
Moundsley Healthcare Ltd run
Moundsley Care Village Ltd, which is a nursing and residential care home.
Jo Johnson: Orpington. According to the electoral Commission - the brother of Boris Johnson received £6,000 on 19th July 2010, to his constituency office from Robin Crispin Odey an investor in circle who run Hitchingbrooke hospital.
Kwarsi
Kwateng:
Worked for Odey Asset Management hedge fund as an analyst who invest in Circle
health who run the Hitchingbrooke hospital. The hedge fund is run by Robin Crispin
William Odey who has donated to the Conservative party since 2007. Mr Kwateng received
£10,000 from Odey Asset Management on 12th September 2011 for consultancy
work for political advice to asset managers, which included ‘domestic affairs’.
Register of interests
Mark Lancaster: MP Milton Keynes North – Non-Executive director Management consultant giving advice on strategy and business to property venture capital company Palmer Capital Partners Ltd. Palmer capital have funded Danescroft Commercial Developments Limited. Danescroft’s main areas of operations are the Midlands and South of England, focusing on office and mixed use development and more specialist sectors such as local/district centres and healthcare. (Resigned 4 September 2012) but received a donation of £4,000 from Palmer Capita, which was registered in 13th March, 2013. Dr Phillip Lee MP for Bracknell - Paid in a capacity as a freelance Doctor for Medical Solutions Ltd, who provide medical cover for events, including blood & Organ transport, ambulances, life boat crew and mobile treatment centres.
Oliver Letwin: Conservative MP for West Dorset - in 2008, was a non-executive director of N.M. Rothschild Corporate Finance Ltd up until 2009. Rothschild Group are one of the world's largest investment companies and which invest heavily in healthcare. In 1986 he followed Redwood to the merchant bank N.M. Rothschild & Sons, succeeding him as head of the firm's International Privatisation Unit. [5] He was a director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons from 1991 to 2003 and a non-executive director from 2005 to 2009.
Peter Lilley: Hitchin and Harpenden MP, Non-Executive Director of management software and systems company Idox plc. Idox provides local authorities with software & managed services, including the NHS Health Libraries Group, NHS Education for Scotland. TfPL part of the Idox Group, is a recruitment, training and consulting company, whose clients include NHS and private healthcare.
Tim Loughton: MP for East Worthing and Shoreham has shares in JP Morgan who are major players in healthcare. According to their website they serve: 1,100 hospitals, 10 of the top 10 health insurers, thousands of physicians groups, top five pharmacy benefit managers, six of the top eight pharmacy retailers. Received £350 from Cumberlege Connections for training sessions. Cumberlege Connections, a political networking firm that works "extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry. Received two lots of £300 in May, July 2013 for training session for Cumberlege Eden and partners. Electoral Commission
Mary Macleod: MP for Brentford and Isleworth was previously a senior executive at Andersen Consulting/Accenture specialising in Banking and financial services as a senior executive. Accenture has gained from PFI contracts.
Francis Maude: MP for Horsham – was a director of Huntsworth plc in May 2005, a PR consulting company run by Lord Chadlington, and which has funded the Conservative party since 2008. Huntsworth plc are a group of companies, one of which is called Huntsworth Health, who are part of a lobbying group Healthcare Communications Association, who comprise of Communication groups involved in health and pharmaceutical companies. Francis Maude was the person fronted by Cameron in response to Peter Cruddas’s announcement that ‘premier league’ sums of £250,000 will get you access to David Cameron and affect policy change. Mr Maude stated the pronouncements were: "embarrassing and wrong, and not true…That's not the way we do business and raise money, and we're very clear about that." Yet, they do receive money from Huntsworth, a company he was a director of, that is run by a Lord and which he is the constituency chairman of David Cameron. None of this was highlighted by the mainstream press as he defended Peter Cruddas. Maude was also a non-executive director of Incepta Group plc from March 1st 2004. During this time, in April 2005, there was an announcement of a proposed merger between Incepta and Huntsworth. The Office for Fair Trading decided it would not be referred to the Competition Commission under section 33(1) of the Act. The merger went ahead and Mr Maude became a director of Huntsworth.
Maude was Non-executive chairman of advertising group ‘The mission Marketing Group’. One of their agencies, Bray Leino Vivactis was also established as Healthcare sector specialists and a new expert team was created via a firm co-operation with the mainland European Healthcare Group, Vivactis.
Another company Maude was a non-executive director of, is a web management software provider called, Mediasurface, whose product Morello CMS is used by Astrazeneca and the NHS. The company was acquired by content management solutions, Alterian, in 2008.
Patrick Mercer: Advisor to Premier Composites Ltd, who design and build 'healthcare pods' for some private healthcare buildings, including a care home in Scotland and a mental health lodge in Preston.
Maria Miller: Former director of Grey's Advertising Ltd, a advertising and brand company who work extensively with clients in the healthcare sector. Former director of the Rowland Group, which became Publicis Consultants, who are also a marketing company working extensively with private healthcare.
Andrew Mitchell: MP In 2008 was a Senior Strategy Adviser to Global management and technology company, Accenture, who have worked extensively with private healthcare companies and the NHS. Pulled out of failed NHS I.T. programme, and gained form PFI contracts. In 2008 was a director of Financial Advisory and Asset Management company Lazard & Co, who work in the Healthcare and life sciences sector. Andrew Mitchell who is, the International Development Secretary, invested funds in a network of privately owned firms which is now at the centre of a tax avoidance case.
Penny Mordaunt: Became an Associate for Hannover Communications in 2009, who provide services across the spectrum of corporate communications, media relations and public affairs for businesses and public sector bodies. The company work in healthcare and states: ‘So whether you are seeking to shape the policy and operating environment, defend or reposition your organisation, or drive sales and uptake for your products and services - hanover can help you discover new ways to achieve success.’ The press release said: 'Penny Mordaunt, joined hanover as an Associate to work on a range of healthcare clients delivering public affairs and corporate communications programmes. Key clients include sanofi-aventis, Schering Plough and HEART UK, where Penny will be providing senior strategic counsel.' She supported the Health and Social Care bill.
Brooks Newmark: Braintree MP: Prior to entering politics, Mr Newmark was a senior partner that provided research and advice on investment opportunities in the UK and Europe to Apollo Management LP, both independently and through Telesis Management Ltd. The former are a private equity company which invests in the healthcare industries.
Jesse Norman: Hereford and South Herefordshire. Received payment given to charity for speaking at a Quiller event. Quiller Consultancy. Quiller lobbyist George Bridges, friend to George Osborne and Cameron’s former election campaign manager, as well as Theresa May’s ex-chief of staff, and an ex-strategist for the Chief Medical Officer. Quiller lobbies for among others, Capita, the enormous outsourcing firm which has its eye on running NHS Direct, and a private equity firm heavily invested in health. Quiller is owned by Huntsworth Group who are owned by Lord Chadlington. According to the Electoral Commission, Mr Norman received £5,000 on 30th June 2009 from Circle healthcare investor Crispin Odey to his local Hereford constituency.
Stephen O’Brien: Eddisbury MP: Stephen O’Brien’s office received three payments totalling £40,000 from Julian Schild. Mr Schild’s family made £184million in 2006 by selling hospital bed-makers Huntleigh Technology. Mr O’Brien was moved to International Development after the election.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/01/19/nhs-reform-leaves-tory-backers-with-links-to-private-healthcare-firms-set-for-bonanza-115875-22859373/ - In addition to this, Mr Julian Schild, of London, has provided financial support for research purposes, particularly in relation to an inquiry which Mr O'Brien was conducting on behalf of the Conservative Party into the NHS IT programme. (Registered 19 May 2008) - The MP for Eddisbury claimed the report of his links to the money donated by Schild was nothing more than a smear campaign as the details had been in the register of interests for ages. This attitude that registering your interests is enough and that the interests in themselves are not a problem is common.
George Osbourne: Received donation through Conservative Campaign Headquarters to run his office from Julian Schild. Julian Schild’s family made £184million in 2006 by selling hospital bed-makers Huntleigh Technology. A key figure in the Tory's strategy team has also come from the lobbying world. George Bridges, who now works closely with George Osborne, used to be employed by Quiller, which keeps its list of clients secret. Quiller is owned by Huntsworth, a public relations firm headed by Lord Chadlington, president of David Cameron's Oxfordshire constituency of Witney.
In 2008 received support for developing policy from The Boston Consulting Group who work extensively in healthcare - their website states: ' BCG’s deep experience in the health care industry extends to having a sector dedicated specifically to payers and providers. Our collaborative network of professionals allows us to share relevant expertise that can benefit organizations involved in the financing, management, and delivery of health care services.'
In April 2011, the Boston Consultancy Group produced a press release announcing the appointment of Dr. Graham Rich as Director of Health Services stating: ‘We are delighted that Graham is joining us as we continue to expand our team and range of advisory services to the NHS.’ The press release also highlighted the appointment of former labour party secretary of state for Work and Pensions, James Purnell. Furhter support in policy development came from accountancy firm, Smith and Williamson, who do accounts in all sectors including Medical and healthcare. Additional policy development came from accountants Grant Thornton, whose website states: 'Within the public sector, we advise at all levels of the UK healthcare system from central government to regulators and providers, as well as clients in the social care sector.'
In addition PricewaterhouseCoopers, which claims to have “been at the heart of shaping [healthcare] reforms and working with clients to respond to the opportunities they present”, are also listed as offering assistance in developing policy. PwC lead an alliance to aid the setup and support for the new GP commissioning groups.
Richard Ottaway: MP for Croydon South. 9-11 July 2007, visit to the USA to attend seminars and meetings with elected US officials and policy forums. His return flight and accommodation were financed by Atlantic Bridge and registered 4 years late on 20th October 2011. His reasoning for the late registration: “I have no idea why this was not done in 2007 after the visit.' 'It very much falls into the ‘cock up’ category of human error.' 'It was a low key, short visit 4 years ago when I was an opposition backbencher. Meetings were held with members of the Republican Administration and some policy forums. I have very little precise recall of the visit.' Atlantic Bridge is a former charity founded by Liam Fox, who made a speech to Atlantic Bridge in 2003 asked: “How Much Health Care Can We Afford?” Members of the Galen Institute, a thinktank which promotes “freemarket ideas in health”, attended its conferences while the failed bank Lehman Brothers, sponsored at least one event, as did the powerful neocon thinktank the Heritage Foundation. (Guardian).
Priti Patel: MP for Witham In 2000, worked for drinks company Diageo (See Andrew Lansley), before joining Weber Shandwick, becoming a director of public affairs. Weber Shandwick was created and built by Lord Chadlington and has a specialist healthcare focus with companies including Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, and Roche, and also the NHS.
Quote: Just as history shows that Nye Bevan introduced the legislation to establish the NHS, it will show that this Secretary of State, through the Bill, has saved it for the patients who rely on it.
John Redwood: Wokingham: Chairman of Investment Committee of Evercore Pan-Asset Capital Management Ltd. Evercore are involved in huge healthcare deals, and has shares in the company. In 2008, he g`ave speech at a working lunch to Gerson Lehrman Group, who provide access to a global network of more than 55,000 experts from across the entire healthcare industry including physicians, researchers, scientists, and healthcare industry executives.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: MP for North-East Somerset: Partner of Somerset Capital Management LLP, who have Redwood Emerging Markets Dividend Income Fund as a client, which invests in Healthcare. MP for North-East Somerset, has shares in Lloyd George Management Ltd; investment management, who invest in Healthcare. According to the electoral Commission, he received £2,000 to his constituency office on the 14th April, 2010 from Mr Robin Crispin Odey, a hedge funder who has invested in Circle healthcare.
Malcolm Rifkind: Member of Advisory Board, L.E.K. Consulting LL, which specialises in helping private healthcare companies identify "growth and new business development" and "opportunities with the government". Non-executive director of Unilever, Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company.
Non-Executive Director of Adam Smith International; which has described the NHS as a "centralized tax-funded monopoly". Instead it argues that the UK should "shift the balance of healthcare spending away from tax and more to the individual." At the same time, it says "we need to transform today’s state monopoly providers into independent, competitive ones" - ie private for-profit healthcare providers. In addition they have produced a couple of reports on the promotion of dismantling the NHS called: The NHS need for radical reform, From cradle to grave: The death of the NHS?, and Good sense on the NHS. Included under this registered interest, were Amphion Ltd, which has partner companies involved in healthcare including Firestar software, M2M, & Motfi BioSciences, Inc.
Amber Rudd was selected for Hastings and Rye in 2006 and she moved to the old town in 2007. In 2008, her office received £3,000 from Andrew Law. Mr Law is the CEO of Caxton Associates who as of November 2001, owned a market value of $217.659 million in healthcare. Andrew Law has given £231,530 to the Conservative party, all but £3,000 of this in 2012.
David Ruffley: MP for Bury St Edmunds was a strategic advisor to Partnership Group Holdings Limited. Through it’s website, it offers residential care fee insurance, stating: ‘While the state can help with some costs, eligibility for help is limited and many people find themselves over the threshold for support so it is important to be aware of financial options available to you.’
The company are a subsidiary of PAG Holdings Limited, which is majority owned by Cinven Funds. According to its 2010 annual report, they initiated a direct sales channel for care annuities, as well as ‘provide competitive loans to people with impaired lives.’ On its website it states: ‘Cinven has been involved in European healthcare over a 20-year period and invests in market-leading, cash-generative companies.’ Cinven is a leading buyout firm, who bought 25 private hospitals from Bupa. Other UK investments include. Spire Healthcare, who run private healthcare hospitals, and whose clinical director Jean-Jacques de Gorter said the use of private sector would spiral as a result of Andrew Lansley’s reform proposals. General healthcare group, which runs healthcare services, and whose group includes: BMI healthcare. The other company is Générale de Santé who is France’s leading healthcare provider.
Mr Ruffley also received a £10,000 donation from Caroline Nash in 2009 - Ms Nash is the wife of John Nash who also funded Lansley's office when he was shadow health minister. He was Chairman of Care UK at the time. Now Care UK have won contracts in his constituency.
Mark Simmonds: Conservative as a shadow health minister, accepted a trip to the United States to look at hospitals there from Bupa UK. Mr Simmonds missed out on a ministerial job in the government. Mark Simmonds, who was a minister when the controversial reforms were drawn up, is paid £50,000 a year to work just 10 hours a month as “strategic adviser” to Circle Health, the first firm to win control of an NHS hospital: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/10/26/tory-mp-cashing-in-on-nhs-break-up-with-second-job-at-health-firm-115875-23515038/#ixzz1dJFD7uKw - Mark Simmonds accepted a US trip to Boston worth £4,982 from private health provider BUPA.
Mark is currently a member of the All Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) acting as a co-chair to Baroness Cumberlege.
Chris Skidmore: Conservative MP for Kingswood who sits on the Health Select Committee received a payment of £3,500 for 4 hours work - giving speeches to STAC Consultancy http://www.stac-consultancy.com/ which specialises in the launch of pharmaceutical products, strategic branding and medical education.
Chris Skidmore's family also owns a company called Skidmore Medical http://www.skidmoremedical.com/, which appears to be solely selling a physiologic Vascular testing equipment. The company made a donation to him of £7,500 in June 2010 which also appears on register of members interests.
Donations: Received £5,000 to his office in run up to the election in 2010 from
Caroline Nash, the wife of former Care UK chairman John Nash - electoral commission
Quotes on the bill: ‘For me I feel the bill is a very positive thing.’
"One of the best bits about the Bill for me was the element of Any Qualified Provider"
http://www.parliament.uk/education/newsletter/central-lobby-current-newsletter/chris-skidmore-nhs-future/
Nicholas Soames: MP Mid Sussex: Senior Adviser, to MMC Group; Marsh & McLennan an insurance financial services company. In a review for the Department of Health of the NHS litigation Authority - written by Marsh Inc, it recommended involving opening up clinical negligence cover over to private insurers. Zurich Financial Insurers said they didn't have the expertise but the Marsh review envisaged opening up a dialogue which might eventually give them the information they needed. The DoH accepted the large majority of Marsh's recommendations. According to the electoral Commission, he received £2,000 on 11th May 2010, from Crispin Odey who is an investor of Circle Health. Marsh is a risk and strategy management company that amongst other services helps ‘hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and industry associations understand the implications of changing policy environments". In the UK, Marsh delivers risk and insurance solutions to key areas of the healthcare industry, including major private hospital groups, some of the UK’s largest care providers, over 30 foundation trusts, medical technology providers and other healthcare service providers and funders.
John Stanley: MP for Tonbridge and Malling: Consultant on financial services to investment company, FIL Investment Management Ltd, who invest in healthcare.
Donations: Fidelity Investment Management have given £495,000 to Conservative Central Party between 2004 and 2008. Electoral Commission. Fidelity own nearly a million shares in ATOS. Fidelity also have shares in AXA.
Andrew Tyrie: In 2008 attended the Ryder cup in his capacity as 'Secretary of the Parliamentary Golf Society.' His travel and accommodation was paid for by U.S. healthcare services company Humana Europe. Humana started UK operation in 2006, in response to the framework for procuring external support for commissioners. Won two contracts with NHS Barnsley, and NHS East of England. Pulled out of UK.
David Willetts: Conservative MP for Havant and the Minister of State for Universities and Science. Former director in 2008, and has shares in Sensortec a company that owns Vantix which is working on a contract for a new product that can quickly detect MRSI. The contract is a Small Business Research Initiative - SBRI contract which provides opportunities for innovative companies to engage with the public sector for specific problems. in 1993 when Baroness Bottomley as Secretary for Health wanted to privatise wards and hospitals. Willetts supported the move, saying: 'private companies will want to change NHS labour practices, and not want to negotiate with Labour practices. Had financial support paid to his research account by HGCpaital private equity manager, Ian Armitage in 2008 - HGCApital funds healthcare companies.
Rob Wilson: Conservative - In 2010, the MP for Reading East had registered shares in Vital Imaging, a private screening company.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/01/19/nhs-reform-leaves-tory-backers-with-links-to-private-healthcare-firms-set-for-bonanza-115875-22859373/
Tim Yeo: In 2008 attended the Ryder cup. His travel and accommodation was paid for by U.S. healthcare services company Humana Europe. (See Andrew Tyrie)
Nadhim Zahawi: MP for Stratford-on-Avon. Is a non-executive director of recruitment company SThree, who specialise in the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology sector. The Company provides both permanent and contract specialist staffing services in the UK and Europe in a few sectors, including through Real Staffing, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology and Healthcare. This element of the group also finds roles for areas of the NHS.
On the 4th April 2011 on a debate on the NHS ‘reforms’, When health secretary Andrew Lansley announced a pause in the Health and Social Care Bill, Zahawi reassured him that GPs were “absolutely passionate” about the reforms and described the plans as a “brilliant piece of legislation”.
The text in full is: ‘Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con): I congratulate my right hon. Friend on engaging and listening. We have all received the 50 or so e-mail circulars from constituents who are concerned, but that does not reflect the evidence on the ground. GPs in Shipston in my constituency are absolutely passionate about the reforms and want to engage fully with them, as do 220 other groups-87% of the country. May I make a suggestion to the Secretary of State? Perhaps we should bring all those people who are passionate about this reform and want to take party politics out of it together with Labour Members on a platform so that we can take this forward without petty politics derailing a brilliant piece of legislation.
Liberal Democrats:
Menzies Campbell: North East Fife: Non-executive director of Scottish American Investment Company plc since 2007. The investment company took over one of the care homes when Southern Cross collapsed. His spokeswoman said: "It is Sir Menzies' understanding that negotiations for another care provider to take over the running of the care home in question are at an advanced stage. Sir Menzies has no further comment to make." Approximately 4.5% of the investment company's equity is in healthcare.
Former Eastleigh MP: In 2008 private equity company, Carrousel Capital of London donated to his leadership campaign. Carrousel Capital have made multiple acquisitions in healthcare companies including: Axium healthcare pharmacy, MedData, Sotaria Imaging Services, Brasseler USA. Left in because when the Health bill was passed he was ina position to vote.
Robert Smith: Liberal Democratic MP for West Aberdeenshire and KIncardine - Has shares in pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. Shares in Legal and General, which offers medical insurance.
GSK is the UK's leading supplier of COPD medicines, supplies the NHS. Shares in Legal and general, which offer private health insurance.
Labour:
David Blunkett: MP for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough - Received fee of £4,250 from Civica 28th January, 2013. More than 70 NHS Commissioners use Civica Health & Social Care's industry standard SLAM NHS Commissioning software to help manage service level agreements with providers, including Payment by Results, local tariffs, local agreements, block payments and other variants.Received a fee of his apparent going rate of £4,250 for a speech at Runwood Care homes in December 2012. Recently acquired eight care homes from Warwickshire County Council.
Rosie Cooper: MP for West Lancashire - Paid by Cumerlege Connections for £300 for work with a focus group of health professionals. Company run by Tory Lord Baroness Cumberlege who broke the rules with this company in 2009, by failing to declare it in her registered interests, ran the business from her Westminster office. The company offers courses in power, politics and persuasion to leading staff in the NHS. Five Labour Lords, and several MPs have been paid for providing for her courses. The company is involved in bidding for the transition development of the new Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Simon Danczuk - MP for Rochdale - Fees from Cumberlege Connections Ltd, (See Rosie Cooper). Received fee of £300 for speaking at Fringe meeting of NHS Alliance Conference. Hours: 1.5 hrs (Registered 8 August 2012) March 2012 , received fee of £300 for speaking at Westminster Experience training workshop. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 8 August 2012) June 2012, received fee of £300 for speaking at Westminster Experience training workshop. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 8 August 2012) 11 September 2012, received fee of £300 for speaking at Westminster Experience training workshop. Hours: 1.5 hrs. Non-Executive Director, providing business advice for Shine-Bid Services Ltd – Company provides support for bids which include the areas of healthcare procurement and PFI.
Alistair Darling: MP for Edinburgh South-West: 7 April 2011, He received a fee of £10,200 for addressing a dinner organised by Cinven, London. Hours: approx 6 hrs. On its website it states: ‘Cinven has been involved in European healthcare over a 20-year period and invests in market-leading, cash-generative companies.’
Cinven is a leading buyout firm, who bought 25 private hospitals from Bupa. Other UK investments include. Spire Healthcare, who run private healthcare hospitals, and whose clinical director Jean-Jacques de Gorter said the use of private sector would spiral as a result of Andrew Lansley’s reform proposals. General healthcare group, which runs healthcare services, and whose group includes: BMI healthcare. The other company is Générale de Santé who are France’s leading healthcare provider.
Patricia Hewitt (see below) was an advisor to Cinven.
Frank Dobson: MP for Holborn and St Pancras: Received payment from Cumberlege Connections: (See Rosie Cooper)
Frank Field – MP for Birkenhead: Is a non-executive director of Medicash Health Benefits Ltd a private health insurance company – he was appointed Chairman of the board on 20th of June 2011. Frank Field has worked with Medicash for 8 years having first been appointed as a non-executive director in 2003. The register of interests says his role is to ‘attend meetings offer advice.’ For this work he receives a monthly payment of £1,030, which according to the Medicash website will be given directly to local charities. What’s the problem with this? Private health insurance companies are set to profit from a privatised NHS.
David Lammy: MP for Tottenham: Received several payments from Cumberlege Connenctions for participating in 'Westminster Experience' conference: (See Rosie Cooper). January 2011, received fee of £229.70 for participating in the King’s Fund ‘High Potential Executive’ Programme. King’s Fund are a charity that ‘shapes NHS policy and practice, provides NHS leadership development and information, and hosts health care events.’
Owen Smith: MP for Pontypridd. A former UK lobbyist for the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, where he was head of government affairs from 2005-2007. Director of Corporate Affairs and Health Economics for the UK’s biggest biotechnology company Amgen Ltd from 2008–09.
Gisela Suart: MP for Birmingham, Egbaston - Speaking at seminars for Cumberlege Connections. (See Rosie Cooper). Her Cumberlege Connections work includes: Payment of £350 for taking part in workshop. Hours: 2 hrs. Payment of £900 for taking part in workshop in Winchester. Payment of £1,900 for NHS leadership programme. Hours: 2 days. (Registered 6 April 2012). Payment of £300 for parliamentary programme workshop. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 6 April 2012.
Shaun Woodward: Shares in J Sainsbury PLC. Sainsbury run pharmacies and provide food for the NHS
Other parties:
Dr Alasdair McDonnell: MP for Belfast South for Social Democrat and Labour party – has shares in Medevol, a small clinical trials company.
Ex MPs:
Charles Clarke - Former Labour MP for Norwich South - Promoted charging for 'peripheral treatments'. In 2008 register of interests was listed as a consultant to commercial firm Beachcroft LLP, which offers incisive analysis on the full range of government, parliamentary and regulatory matters in the health sector. In 2008, was registered as a consultant to KPMG LLP, on the future of public service reform. KPMG are heavily involved in implementing changes in the NHS and its commissioning groups.
David Heathcoat-Amory - Former Conservative MP for Wells and a former Treasury minister, registered a payment of “£1,671.08 and health benefit to the value of £86.17” in July from Western Provident Association, which provides private medical insurance policies. The MP defended his work as a non-executive director for the firm, which pays him around £20,000 a year, saying: “The insight I receive from that helps me during health-related debates in Parliament and being part of the world of work and commerce helps me in scrutinising other parliamentary bills.” - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6143256/Tory-MP-David-Heathcoat-Amorys-private-health-link-revealed.html
Patricia Hewitt, left commons - is a former director of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture - which has gained from PFI contracts - Former Labour Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has been an advisor to Cinven; http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=2382 - took a consultancy with Alliance Boots seven months after standing down and a £55,000 role with Cinven, which bought 25 private hospitals from Bupa - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/17/labour-ministers-consultancy-private-sector
Alan Milburn, has left commons - then Health Secretary for the Labour party, was a consultant for Alliance Medical’s parent company. Alliance Medical runs diagnostic services for the NHS, including in Birmingham[15] and Falkirk.[16] UNISON reported that services were giving patients sub-optimal care, losing the NHS money because of below-capacity uptake, and pressurising hospitals into using private sector treatments - http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=2382 - In 2008 his registered interests highlight: Member of Lloydspharmacy's Healthcare Advisory panel paid in the region of £30,000. Also in 2008, a member of the European Advisory Board of Bridgepoint Capital Limited, the private equity firm which acquired Care UK, whose chairman John Nash bankrolled Andrew Lansley’s office just prior to the takeover. He has recently been appointed by PricewaterhouseCoopers as head of board overseeing healthcare practice.
David Miliband - MP for South Shields - received £10,000 from McKinsey and Co for a speech at a Global Business Leaders Summit in February last year. Also received a sum of £10,044 from the same company for travel expenses and accommodation in Singapore in March 2011. McKinsey & Co drew up loads of proposals that were accepted into the Health and Social Care bill. Senior Global Advisor to Oxford Analytica a business strategy company who have worked with healthcare giant GE healthcare. Received a fee of £12,500 on the 9th May 2012 from Bridgepoint, a private equity company who own Care UK. Received a donation from health insurance company, Prudential plc for two Olympic tickets.
Mark Lloyd Davies - Conservative failed candidate a French pharmaceutical company gave a job to this prospective Bristol South Tory http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/news/696096/Tories-paid-an-unhealthy-sum-Quiz-over-MPs-private-firm-links-Health-Ministers.html - According to the Conservative website: "Mark is the UK head of the pharmaceutical government affairs and communications team in the world's largest healthcare company [Sanofi-Aventis], so he's already familiar with the workings of Westminster."
Helen Whately - Former Conservative parliamentary candidate. Has shrugged off any suggestion of a conflict of interest, after it emerged she works for the same consultants helping draw up plans which could see the A+E or maternity unit at Kingston Hospital removed. Her website states she works as a management consultant specialising in healthcare, mainly in the NHS but does not mention her employer McKinsey.
Robert Key – former MP for Salisbury – stepped down before the last election due to health reasons - 2-3 September 2002, panellist at Executive Brief 2002 at Gleneagles Hotel. Travel and hospitality paid by the organisers, AMT-SYBEX of Letchworth. AMT-Sybex Group, is IT supplier to the NHS. Lord Coe is now a Director of AMT-Sybex Group ensuring parliamentary access.
MEP:
Ashley Fox Conservative; was an Associate at Morgan Cole until 2009. As a Conservative party member he fought the Parliamentary seat of Bath at the 2001 General Election. He has been the Councillor for Westbury-on-Trym on Bristol City council since 2002. After leaving Morgan Cole he was elected as a Conservative MEP to the European Parliament in June 2009 and was appointed Chief Whip of the ECR in December 2010. Morgan Cole are a partner in an alliance of companies developing the new GP commissioning groups led by KPMG.
Liberal Democrats - Alpha Healthcare, a residential homes firm which gave the Liberal Democrats party £125,000 last year, is ultimately run by Harberry Investments in the British Virgin Islands. Alpha Healthcare, based in Redditch, Worcestershire, runs ten care homes across Britain and had a turnover in 2006 of £14.5 million. Alpha Healthcare’s ultimate parent company is Harberry Investments, which is based in Tropic Isle Building on the island of Tortola. Harberry’s turnover and tax payments remain hidden because the company is based in an offshore haven where businesses do not have to declare their accounts publicly - http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/health/article2492984.ece
Summary table – Alpha Healthcare Ltd payments to the Liberal Democrats
Summary table type
| select |
Description
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No.
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Total
value
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| Sum : 6 | £440,000.00 | |
| Q2 2010 | 1 | £95,000.00 |
| Q3 2008 | 1 | £50,000.00 |
| Q2 2007 | 1 | £125,000.00 |
| Q4 2005 | 1 | £60,000.00 |
| Q2 2005 | 1 | £100,000.00 |
| Q1 2004 | 1 | £10,000.00 |
Sum : 6 £440,000.00
The Lib Des have received a total of £440,000 from a private care home provider called Alpha Health care Ltd. The company is run by Harberry Investments in the British Virgin Islands a tax haven island and has been giving the Liberal Democrats yearly payments since 2004 with the exception of 2009. In addition to this sum, Bhanu Choudhrie who is listed as a shareholdera in Harberry and also director in Alpha Healthcare, according to Companies House and he gave two donations of £10,000 in 2004, and £20,000 in 2008 to the party. However Bhanu’s Father Sudhir Choudrie who has been accused in several cases filed by the CBI alleging manipulation and bribery in defence purchases has also given 3 individual sums totaling £95,000 in 2006.
I only found this by accident but what an excellent blog. This clearly shows why the condems are so adamant about forcing through the Health and Social Care Bill. Great Work!
ReplyDeleteWow, you have really done your homework. A fantastic resource, thanks you!
ReplyDeleteSelf-interest is a great motivator. Let the NHS issue demonstrate to all of us what hypocritical scum are elected by us, supposedly to act in our interests. We look down on countries like Russia and Iran, but are we really so much better? Time for a proper general election.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteReading the above makes me feel sick, but it's hardly news for a regular Private Eye reader. Unfortunately all the parties are as bad as each other as far as taking bribes, er, donations etc go. NOBODY in Parliament, upper or lower house, should be allowed to work for any outside business, organization &c PERIOD.
"Proper general election". If only......
I suspect that nothing short of an armed uprising where these bastards are hanging from lamp-posts will suffice
We will never have a 'proper general election' until Power is devolved to the grass roots. This was discussed in great detail in The Power Inquiry 2006, which showed that the grass roots had a very good idea on why we need to devolve power, on how to devolve power...
DeleteGoogle it. The media more or less masked it. More folk need to know and understand that the grass roots has already outlined practical and morally acceptable steps to bring Power back to the people.
The level of corruption this represents is disgusting. Really hope something can be done to stop this bill.
ReplyDeleteSo what's your point? That politicians shouldn't have current relevant experience in the world of work? That politicians shouldn't have past relevant experience of the world of work?
ReplyDeleteYou're alternative would appear to be politicians who have no outside interests and no relevant experience (current or past).
I don't want careerist politicians. I want politicians that have done a job of work outside politics. I want politicians who have been successful in other fields.
Completely agreed. One cannot be decisive in matters of public policy without living or experiencing the real world first. It's ridiculous!
DeleteBut there is past experience then a vested interest which may influence their decisions so that the results are not in the best interests of the people. And with Cameron so adamant about pressing ahead with the Bill, regardless of the opposition he faces, one can't help but wonder...
DeleteSpot on. the inclusion of Lord Hunt here just shows that you don't really know what your target is. Using his experience of the NHS he's leading the charge in the Lords against this awful legislation. Links to healthcare provision don't necessarily mean corruption, and the scattergun nature of your list doesn't really advance the debate
DeleteI agree with Gunston. It doesn't matter that mps might be making changes in the nhs that benefit themselves. Just because they are involved in private health so nhs changes will have zero effect on them or their families, doesn't mean they are corrupt. Taking bribes to change policies is right and proper.
DeleteImagine, for example, if we employed a transport minister who'd never driven a car. Or a sport minister who'd never played professional sport - how could they possibly have an opinion on anything?
We need politicians who are in the pockets of pharmacuitical companies because they must know what they are talking about. Right?
Hello Gunston. I think the point is quite clear. There are multiple Lords and MPs who will be making decisions on the National Health Service who are set to financially gain from the privatisation of the NHS. Should this be allowed?
DeleteYou state that you don't want careerist politicians, well that's exactly what you've got.
Sonia and Gunston: Many of the people on the list here have simply been given money from people who have financial interests in the outcome for the Health and Social care bill. This doesn't require working in the real world but simply means the recipients are in a position where they can influence decisions that will benefit their business.
What work does Lansley need to have do in the 'real world', to have received money from the chairman of a private healthcare company set to benefit from the bill Lansley has created. Let us not forget too that Lansley renovated his home on taxpayers money before selling it. What experience does Stephen O'Brien need in the 'real world', to receive money from a person set to gain from the bill. Rob Wilson doesn't need experience to buy a bunch of shares in a private healthcare company. The list goes on...
The alternative is for those MPS or Lords who have in some cases clearly and legally highlighted their interests to not be allowed to vote on issues where these interests may conflict in their decision-making. In my view it weakens democracy.
Nicktheowl - I agree a couple of them have been sucked into the list that I could easily have left out, but we are talking two or three and the list is log and incomplete. On that note if there are some you find that think should be added let me know.
Prankenstein: Experience is a good thing, no-one is doubting that. However I refer to the points made to Gustan in this comment. What experience do you need to receive money from private health care companies to run your office.
In addition, some of these former MPs choose to become directors or sit on the boards of private health care companies. Maybe it is because they are good at what they do, or maybe it is because they have influence on those in power who then sort them out with contracts. There is a merry-go-round in politics which sees MPs sitting on the boards of corporations not that long after office receiving money for their power and influence. Once they finish on the board, they then return back to politics and round and round it goes.
My view is that if a Lord or an MP has clear interests that may cloud their decisions in voting, then they should not be allowed to vote on the issue. It is not enough for them to announce it in their register of interests. After all, the reason why they have to announce it is because it is understood vested interests will influence decisions, so why not go a step further.
I think the point of view is that pressure for NHS Privatisation is coming from people with strong links to politics, particularly the Conservatives. Tories hardly recognise Community, let alone work on behalf of it.
DeleteOn voting in parliament or the Lords, they should be like borough councillors - declare an interest and then abstain
What experience in 'the relevant field' would a director of a private health care company have? Is it the same experience as that of a care worker, who looks after ordinary people who are too sick or immobile to look after themselves? (on minimum wage and no travelling allowance whilst the director of that company gets a whopping £800k a year).. Do they actually have any relevant experience at all, except that they know how to make a fat profit out of vulnerable people, who have absolutely no idea what is going on? The people we need to make decisions for us are those who live the same lives as us, not people who live lives so far removed from ours that it bears no resemblance to our world. And who actually care about people, not money, or power.
DeleteSocial Investigation team, your blog states it is privatisation of the NHS. Read the bill again as this is clearly not true. Stop joining the masses in thinking of the NHS in such a black and white manner. We can and do have private companies working in the NHS and it works well. Just because someone makes profit doesn't mean your service will be any worse or you will be exploited.
DeleteLets grow up and have serious debates and blogs about these issues not just moan.
The masses are what i am part of. This list clearly presents a serious problem with our democracy when over 100 Lords are able to vote on a bill in which they have a a financial interest. The expansion of privatisation which this bill represents is entirely different to that which exists in the service presently. there has been plenty of grown up debate, but we are now dealing with undemocratic corporate servants who have flagrantly abused their office and dealt blow after blow to our democratic system.
DeleteI FOR ONE WOULD ABSOLUTELY WELCOME POLITICIANS WHO, ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN ELECTED, DID NOTHING BUT POLITICS, UNDERSTOOD AS SERVING THEIR COMMUNITY AND CONSTITUENTS. THE ISSUE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EXPERIENCE, AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH VESTED INTERESTS.
DeleteWe vote for politicians to do a job for the people and country, these people are lining their own pockets at OUR expense. Politicians should have experience of work in the field, especially, in the case of ministers, their given portfolio. Why do we end up with Osborne, who knows nothing of economics, as chancellor? These people should also, BY LAW, not be allowed to vote on legislation they have a vested interest in! All they are doing is using public funds, to manipulate situations to their/agents advantage. SURELY THIS IS ILLEGAL? Or does wording it politely legalise it?
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ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what your aim is, but to be complete you would need to list any with stakes in the profession (eg ex-GPs) and also any funded by, or committed to, producer interests - which would include the dozens of MPs funded by UNISON, for example.
ReplyDeleteHi Matt. My aim is simply to bring together various elements that papers and organisations have already researched to make it easier to see what level of self-interest there is in the bill. MPs or a party funded by the workers unions such as Labour, are thus more inclined to pay heed to workers rights, than the one that isn't, but then again Labor was historically born out of the workers movements so this is not surprising.
DeleteThe list is far from complete in various areas, as I brought it together yesterday afternoon. There is plenty more that relates to donations to the party and links where the tentacles are further reaching. When i get the time I will intend to extend this list, which can hopefully act as an easy to use resource if people so choose.
I think you'll find that Union sponsored MP's are Labour, the party that is supposed to represent the interests of the ordinary people. Doctors have relevant experience, and judging by the response of the royal colleges are just as likely to be against the bill.
DeleteThe point is that the current members of parliament mostly have no relevant experience of what most of us call the real world. The issue is not some idealistic notion of 'fairness' but the real unfairness of increasing the involvement of the private sector in the NHS. By taking profit out of the NHS less money will be available for treating patients.
I am the last person to claim that the NHS needs reform, more accountability to the people and the removal of excessive management. But at present the vast majority of people are more than satisfied with the service they get.
On panorama last week I saw a man with a hernia, he was unemployed and homeless and living in the USA. The operation that would save him from an agonising death from gangrene would cost him $20,000. Obviously he hasn't got it and obviously as he is unemployed he has no health insurance.
That is what I call unfairness, those at the top already have power through their wealth to encourage parliament to support their interests. When even Labour MPs can be 'bought' where does that leave the ordinary working man or woman?
That is real unfairness.
BTW, I do agree it 's a really tough thing to get a handle on.
ReplyDeleteThis search, for example, seems to throw up quite a few of MPs who have received around £5k from Unison.
Unison MPs
Hmmm. Some of this is a bit spurious (Health benefit of 1k + 86?, works at a management consultancy etc). All you have really shown is that Tories have business interests outside of parliament. I suspect you could look at any sector and find links.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting if it was balanced by a similar analysis of Labour interests.
Having said that, the sheer volume is quite surprising, given the number of Lords/MPs they have in parliament compared with the wider population.
An excellent resource to 'just go check' when they appear on Newsnight :)
Hi Mark - you aright and that's why I have also added in the Labour connections I could find to the private healthcare for both the Lords and MPS. The volume is a lot but not complete by far. I have plenty more to add which I will do when I get the time.
DeleteHopefully it can be used as a 'go-check', which was really the idea - just to bring the different bits already known and bring them together.
Your list of hypocrites is extremely interesting and illuminating. Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteNo worries - if you find more that should be added please let me know with a link to the source.
DeleteYou may want to take a look at my MP, Chris Skidmore, who sits on the Health Select Committee and received a payment of £3 500 for 4 hours work http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/111129/111129.pdf
ReplyDeletegiving speeches to STAC Consultancy http://www.stac-consultancy.com/ which specialises in the launch of pharmaceutical products.
Chris Skidmore's family also owns a company called Skidmore Medical http://www.skidmoremedical.com/ and made a donation to him of £7 500 in June 2010 (also on register of members interest). I have been unable so far out to find out if Chris Skidmore has any holding in this company.
Hi Richard that's great - I'll add this in shortly and promote and ask people to RT etc...The more we get the more effective this will be. Much appreciated.
DeleteSo, we have an MP who knows something about healthcare sitting on the Health Select Committee - terrible, should be a law against it!
DeleteJohn, he knows nothing about healthcare at all. He is a recently elected 30 year old who has never worked in healthcare and is a published academic historian.
DeleteLooks like a case of if you don't want to be taken for a fool, best to keep your mouth shut than to open it and confirm you are one.
Awesome. Great, great work. Have you shown this to any nationals, to try and get it to a wider audience? It would be interesting at least to hear a reason for not publishing it.
ReplyDeleteHi davosdavas - thanks - a lot of this is taken from the nationals, some from other sources, some my own research, and a few suggested by the public which is great. If we can collectively find as many as possible, MPs, advisors, Lords, etc then I will definitely put it to the media as the list like this is quite impacting. Richard above has provided another one and yesterday three more were added. So hopefully over the next few days the list will continue to expand (sadly).
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ReplyDelete"Imagine, for example, if we employed a transport minister who'd never driven a car."
You'd be referring to Barbara Castle then, yet she passed seat-belt legislation and supported women workers at Ford. What does driving a car have to do with it?
Fascinating stuff but you really should be more discerning. Many of the companies are suppliers to the NHS without whom the NHS would not be able to function. The private sector has a legitimate and long standing role in providing all manner of stuff to the NHS. I see nothing wrong in a politician having and declaring an interest relating to such companies.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right to expose the links to private healthcare.
Hello John. Thanks for the comment. IF there are some that you think should not be on there, then please do let me know, tell me why they are weak and then we can consider them being removed or not. The best thing is for the list to be as strong as possible, which I think for the large part it is. All the best.
DeleteUnfortunately, the basic premise of this post is false, namely that the NHS is being "privatised".
ReplyDeleteThe same system of funding remains in place, namely compulsory deduction from earned income or business profits in the form of taxation. That funding of around £120bn a year completely dwarfs the private funding of around £10bn. So whatever happens, the idea of a "privatised health service" is nonsense when 90% of the spend will be taxpayer funded and controlled by contractors working for the state.
The same system of delivery of care services remains in place, namely, state owned and run hospitals who in turn employ contractors, from Consultants to Cleaners to do the work. Then, there are GPs, who have always been almost entirely self-employed "private" enterprises. They will have a greater role in commissioning care and may choose not to use the near monopoly providers that currently do such a good job. (Stafford Hospital anyone?)
Now, were we to actually want a healthcare system which delivered better outcomes, we might want a set up which was a bit more like, ooh, let's think, Germany maybe?
There, everybody has insurance. One third of care is provided by what we might regard as "NHS style" health centres, A&E and hospitals, but fully two thirds is what we would regard as "private". Half of the latter is not for profit and the largest single not for profit provider is the Trade Union movement - who are also one of the major insurers.
There are no waiting lists in Germany, they spend more than we do and they have significantly better health outcomes and have done for decades.
Sadly, our nationalised healthcare service doesn't look like that or work like that.
Is it wholesale privatisation no - however the Conservatives would like NHS hospitals to earn 49% of income from treating private patients - that's quite a leap and will it then expand? Certainly the influential right-wing think tank IEA will consider it. Here is one article on their website titled 'How to abolish the NHS' - http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/how-to-abolish-the-nhs#comment-6965.
DeleteI think you do know that whatever Germany has that is not something this band of gangsters are intending. They are far more leaning towards the U.S than Europe. The manner in which they have introduced the bill, has been thoroughly undemocratic, the lies and deception continue with the latest omission of key members of the health professionals form the health summit adding to their undemocratic reputation.
However, the purpose of this blog is simply to highlight the links between our politicians who are meant to serve us, and their links to private healthcare companies. Most of these links have already been published in the press, and all I have done is bring them together with the exception of a few provided kindly by the public and my own research in the register of interests.
The issue I am trying to focus on is whether our democracy is weakened when so many MPs and their advisors have direct links to companies that are set to financially benefit from a bill they have created. In addition, whether we need to bring a system into place that goes a step further than simply registering your interest, but actually prevents you voting on a bill where your interests will financially benefit a company. Tricky?
Earning a living through the NHS will never been the same as making a profit out of it. I work for a charity which provide a a service for people with mental health problems, paid for by the NHS, and its a great example of patient choice and innovation in health care. However, it is a charity, and does not make a profit. Care UK- a profit making company, pays its staff minimum wage and nothing at all for driving between house calls, yet the director earns close to a million a year and its listed as one of the top 5 private heatlhcare co's that don't pay their fair share of tax. If it were non profit, that surplus would go to provide better care for patients, the focus of the 'which' report scandal about the quality of care in this country.
DeleteA reminder to everyone - that if you know anyone who should be on this list, please contact me, add it as a comment with links to sources and it can be added to the list. If people have suggestions about where the list can be circulated, then please do so or let me know.
ReplyDeleteFUNNY how none of the Corporate Media in the USA is mentioning or polling or doing any investigating any of the bush admin with ties to phizer, lily, makers of aspartame, which their admin remade to be re legalized while rumsfeld was major stockholder... imagine the kickbacks and the ongoing funding of the neo con corporatist servants campaigns and funding through their contracts and bids given , not to mention their library foundations.
ReplyDeleteunfkg believable.
teach the world to copy the neo con corporatist economical strategy to trickle down economics which is mere bullshit...
@John Moss, while it's certainly true that better systems could be in place than the current NHS, it's a question of whether that's what this gov't is aiming for. The whole premise of this list is vested interests that would prevent the best-case scenario happening. The other worry must be that this gov't is so clearly wedded to corporatism and privatisation, and the primacy of the private in the most general sense that they are (probably, to the best of our knowledge) spending far more time discussing with private companies how to carve it up than they are with doctors and patient-reps discussing care options.
ReplyDeleteIt waylays the argument to speak about the imperfections of the NHS. The argument has to be, which system will be best? And, given this list, the cuts and taxes imposed, and the ideological will towards privisation, it seems very much as though the German health system was at the forefront of Cameron's mind when he came up with this policy.
Think I'm right in saying lord carter is also the man whose report into pathology has called for mergers and closing of pathology labs inevitably leading to privatisation...
ReplyDeleteOK, some of them are pretty damn sleazy, but some of them are included in the list simply because they have an interest in pharmaceutical companies.
ReplyDeleteAm I missing something? Why is that relevant? Surely the NHS is going to spend money on drugs under any system?
What if the NHS gives drug contracts to those particular companies over other ones?
DeleteYou and many others have a warped view of politics, and the world. Are we so far gone that it has become too much to ask that our politicians don't have outside economic interests, in anything? Is that madly radical? Those interests almost guarantee, in health alone, that at some point they will have to choose between their business interests and their electorate. We see from America who wins there. Of course politicians with financial interests in health should not be making health law. This was obvious a long time ago.
DeleteThe article shows what a sick state our politicians are in. Some of comments show what a sick state our electorate are in. If people are unable to grasp that, politicians should have no conflict of interest when making important decisions on behalf of the people they are supposed to represent, then we really have a problem.
ReplyDeleteInteresting and depressing. However, there are some pretty serious errors in this - Unilever is not a pharmaceutical company, for example.
ReplyDeleteHi Barefaced Coach - It is depressing - there may be some errors in here, though I have linked to all the sources. On the note of Unilever, their European venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to form a pharma arm to their company.
DeleteError spotting is welcome though so if some are found they can be verified of altered. Equally if people find out information about advisors, MPs or Lords that need to go in here, then please contact me.
David Heathcoat-Amory is no longer the MP for Wells: it's Lib Dem Tessa Munt
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DeleteUnfortunately, if we don't want our country badly let down again by professional politicians who are only interested in their own careers, such as Ed Balls and Ed Miliband, its almost impossible to get quality people without some sort of vested interest. I'm a retired person living off my savings and a small pension all of which depend on the success of many of the companies mentioned above. Does this mean I could not vote on this bill? What the electorate really want for as important an issue as the unsustainable cost of the NHS is our representatives working together is figure out the best possible solution; not sniping at each other and point scoring in the interests of their own self-aggrandisement and in the process misleading the general public. Unfortunately we are still stuck with the dross left over from the centralist Blair/Brown way of thinking, the expenses fiddlers, and a coalition government with some weird mixed Con-Lib manifesto that none of us voted for. The only answer has to be another general election. In the meantime, let's hope no irreparable damage gets done. Personally I'm agnostic about more privatisation of medical services. After all, for example, two-thirds of NHS abortions are outsourced to the private sector already and has been for some long time, and this a[[ears to work well. I'm sure there are large numbers of such contradictory statistics but unfortunately we won't hear a sensible discussion about any of it from this lot, from either side of the House.
ReplyDeleteLet there be no doubt that the current NHS reforms are nothing more privatization through the back door, its a typical Conservative modus operandi, try make the changes creeping and gradual and hopefully no one will cotton on until its too late. I'm currently living the US (born and bread in the UK) and witnessed how the system over here refuses to cover or give treatment to the vast majority of average Americans. Interested third parties, namely health insurance companies are reaping huge profits from what has now become Americas biggest domestic industry, the standard of healthcare here is rate just one place before Turkey, the poorest among all major industrialized nations. Its a system thats both evil and scary compared to the NHS system enjoyed in the UK, I'd advise folk back in blighty to sit up and take notice rather than the usual apathetic attitude domestic politics is greeted with because at some point is going to effect you.
ReplyDeleteBefore anyone else argues that these vested interests can be justified as 'experience in the world of work', look at how many are paid to 'advise' purely on the strength of their parliamentary contacts, or just buy shares in private healthcare companies. Those with real experience of working in the health sector, who meet sick patients every day, have just been specifically excluded from NHS talks.
ReplyDeleteAs a Citizen of The U.S.of A. , I truly hope that all of you in The U.K. make a stand on this "health" bill. Ask yourselves is it the objective of any Democratic government to assist private ( many times international ) companies to make a profit with ones ill health? The concept that competition is good may apply to a product that one MAY DECIDE TO BUY because if the price and quality is not acceptable - well, simply one will not buy it...When health "care" is private (for as much profit as possible) you will always be "diagnosed" with an illness- that "needs" a "specialist" and "the best (expensive) medication". Public Health Care with economic incentives for Doctors THAT REDUCE THE ILL UNDER THEIR RESPONSIBILITY is the ONLY correct form of "Health Care".
ReplyDeleteThat's not surprising, nor wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt is totally acceptable that liberal professionals (ex-surgeons turned advisor for example) to be a politician.
So is for a businessman. It is no coincidence that people with links to the Health industry, by either being a health professional themselves or by having some expertise on it, to be called to take part in Health committees and so on.
It would be completely foolish and inappropriate to put someone from the mining industry to head the DoH, for example. It's not coincidence that they have interests in this bill, from a personal point of view too.
And obviously, If they sit on the BUPA board (and surely that is not a crime) it is clear that they are pro-reform.
If they sit on a Bupa board, what are they doing being allowed to vote on a bill that will give Bupa more opportunities to make more money. This is a crime in my opinion. She can sit on the BUPA board if she wants, but just not in the Lords at the same time. Baroness Bottomley who sits on the board of BUPA has an attendance rate of 20% since 2005 & voted less than half Lords voting days in 2011, yet she managed to turn up for every day of the health bill.
DeleteLord Darzi is a surgeon but he is also an advisor to a private company that may benefit from the new privatisation elements of the bill. He, alongside all of the other Lords with financial interests, should not be allowed to vote on the bill.
The Tories were not elected - there was no mention of these vast sweeping and expensive reforms in their manifesto, which will cost in Human and monetary terms to implement. People who make decisions to open up floodgates for private sector exploitation should be vetted for vested interest - if found, they should be prosecuted for fraud. They are elected to represent and act on the will of the people.These lobbying MPs and groups remind me of the moneylenders in the temple, who were driven out by Jesus. I question a billionaire, out of touch with ordinary life, wanting £60,000 a year for anything other than furthering his own aims, and those of his peers. Having these spivs and privateers oversee a precious national resource is akin to appointing the foxes to look after the Chicken coop.
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ReplyDeletePiper, a global law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health
and social care sectors”."
This is very unfair. DLA Piper are one of the world's biggest law firms - the biggest using aome measurements. No doubt they have clients in the health and care sectors, but implying this is their main focus is totally wrong. I wouldn't describe the work of a law firm as "lobbying"!
Do I suspect that you added this one (and the note about a pretty small donation tacked on the end) to try to prevent this article becoming an advert for the Liberal Democrats? It certainly seems like they are really the ones to trust on the NHS, no?
Well DLA Piper has advised King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on a public private partnership with Serco and Guy's & St Thomas - DLA Piper has advised three Peterborough NHS trusts on a PFI healthcare project that will include a new 612-bed acute hospital, a 102-bed mental health unit and an integrated care centre with 34 specialist rehabilitation beds. In September 2011 DLA Piper hosted a seminar on the future of outsourcing.'realising the benefits.'
ReplyDeleteThey are just a small sample. DLA Piper do a lot of work on the NHS in a capacity that says to me Lord Clement-Jones should not be voting on a bill when he works for a company that has so much interests in the NHS and is potentially influencing the way it is shaped.
£440.000 is not a small amount of money - and why is it Okay for a party to receive this amount of money from a private health care company that is set to benefit from a bill that the party is helping pass through when this didn't exist on any mandate the party put to the country.
I have no problem with leaving the Lord and the Lib Dems on this list.
80% of all NHS patients dealt through the private sector.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, the Lib Dem donation story doesn't make much sense. If you were trying to influence government in healthcare privatisation, then why would you donate to the party furthest from power? As you say, this NHS private suppliers stuff has never been in their manifesto so why would he choose to support them instead of, say, the conservatives or labour - both of which have nailed their colours to the private/PFI mast.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are simply Lib Dem supporters? It may be a surprise, but there are plenty of SMEs that support them, but very few if any multinationals.
And in terms of a law firm being involved in all those things. Well duh. These PFI things are hugely complicated legally (as are most other big government contracts) so of course there will need to be law firms involved and preferably a big, capable one like DLA. What's the alternative, the government do the legal stuff themselves?
Wow, they hosted a conference in their big auditorium in central London. Stop the press. All big firms do this with clients across a variety of sectors.
Have a look online at how many partners DLA Piper has, then think how likely it even is that Clement-Jones is even involved in this. You should even be able look up his area of legal practice. I can't be bothered really because it seems totally irrelevant.
You're still implying that health and care services are a large proportion if DLA's business. It is not.
You're clearly against any and all private involvement in the NHS, and presumably all other public services. Sadly my friend you've missed the boat - HMS Private Enterprise was launched by the Tories and accelerated by the party of the people, Labour.
Vote Liberal Democrat.
'Vote LibDem,' after yesterday, when they blocked the vote to publish the NHS risk assessment documents.
DeleteYou must be mad.
Several LibDems even signed the EDM and then either abstained or turned completely on the day.
LibDems were the last hope but it seems that everything their critics ever said about them is absolutely true or of course it could be that every politician is the same, skum of the earth (probably latter).
As a party surely they are finished.
So whatever evidence comes up highlighting somewhat dubious connections between Lib Dems, their MPs and private healthcare is irrelevant because you are a Lib Dem supporter.
ReplyDeleteDLA Piper didn't just hold a seminar: They held a seminar titled 'the future of outsourcing; realising the benefits'. To me that is Wow!
I am not implying anything by the way: I repeat what I said before: 'DLA Piper do a lot of work on the NHS in a capacity that says to me Lord Clement-Jones should not be voting on a bill when he works for a company that has so much interests in the NHS and is potentially influencing the way it is shaped.' Even if Clement-Jones is not involved directly with health, he is still working for a company that has a clear influence.
You are a Lib Dem supporter, and I am surprised you don't feel betrayed by the party quite frankly. They are in government, they offered no mandate to their supporters or to the public about the Health and Social Care bill, and yet are holding hands with Lansley, Cameron and the MPs listed above into a new dawn. Nick Clegg who said into Cameron's ear: “If we keep doing this we won't have anything to bloody disagree on..."
As for the Lib Dems, they have received a considerable sum from a private health care company who will potentially benefit from the Health and Social care bill. They implicate themselves, there is no need for me to do it for them.
As for the Labour party, they have privatised as much as the Tories, they haven't reversed any of the often failed privatisation's of our utilities and transport. They too sit on the boards of companies, become directors and cross the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. They have let down the working class roots and there is no evidence yet of them particularly changing. Cronyism is a cross-party issue, it weakens out democracy and as this list shows it is widespread.
No I shall not vote Liberal Democrat.
Just to say thanks for collating that information.Definitely if an mp or a lord has a connection with a business interest,they should be excluded from any vote relating to that business interest.Simple as that.This is what a vested interest is,and conflict of interest is to do with affecting a situation not out of objectivity/neutrality,but promoting your vested interest,no matter how subtly.It's common sense with a huge track record.When common sense goes out the window anything can happen or be said.
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Thanks - the campaign is going well on twitter - so please do spread the twitters going around on these Lords...all the best.
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DeleteThose vile and disgusting faces I have seen on this excellent site should be grouped together to form a rouges gallery of treacherous scum who should be thrown out of Parliament and the Lords immediately...astounding research that the wider public of Britain should see...this is food for my radical poetry...
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Today the NHS bill had its final reading in Parliament and has got its shameful royal accent...I ask if it was in the realms of possibility for the Queen to have said NO to this vile bill?...or is she obliged to dance to the whims of her government of the day(don't want to rock the boat of easy living,a wot!)
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DeleteCan anyone tell me the position in Parliament regarding conflict of interest? At town council, county council and regional assembly level, if someone has a financial interest in a particular piece of business, they must declare it, take no part in the debate and may not vote on it. Is this not the case in Parliament? If not, why not? And if it IS the case, what mechanisms exist to punish transgressors and why have they not been invoked/used?
ReplyDeleteI am just about to look into this - I was told that local government is different.
DeleteBasically if they have a financial interest they must declare it in the register of interests and announce it prior to a discussion, but can still take part in the discussion and vote on it - it is scandalous and must change.
I am about to put in a complaint to the commissioner who oversees these things for Lord Chadlington and see what happens. But the idea that at town hall level it would be different says it all about these lot.
MPs are a law to themselves and should be barred from gaining from companies they have privatised ie Patricia Hewitt about £150000 from companies she arranged contracts for how truly pathetic,why can't they concentrate on the job we elect them to do,and some of this pathetic lot cannot resist their ample snouts in the pig trough,have a laugh and watch these morons on PMs question time jumping up and down as though their back sides are on fore.
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ReplyDeletefascinating and frightening
ReplyDeleteHow glad am I, they don't have a say in our NHS... As for dear Frank, he should put all his energies into fighting these plan's, and not do the work of the Tories.
ReplyDeleteGreat investigative journalism - this should be in every newspaper. I knew some firms given NHS contracts donated to party funds, but i didn't know so many MPs and Lords had direct financial interests in private healthcare firms - almost as bad as the US. Will be following your blog from now on.
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DeleteI am a Brit living in America. You are going to bitterly regret dismantling the NHS.
ReplyDeleteWe know, that's why we keep fighting every step of the way, we - that is - who value the NHS for its universal access. Please watch 'Sicko' (Michael Moore): it says it all, so eloquently.
DeleteIn particular it talks to American ex-pats living in Europe : why they value how their taxes are spent (on national health and child nurseries etc.)
This is so true. There is literally a whole mini-industry in the States built around assisting Americans in the area of "medical tourism", where people are travelling outside the US for medical procedures they cannot afford in their own country.
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ReplyDeleteOh Dear!! (Adam Curtis 2011)
ReplyDeleteThe sooner the NHS is either privatized or disbanded the better. Biggest waste of tax payers money out there.
ReplyDeleteI want to see a system where to see your doctor you would pay a minimal fee, say a few pounds. That would keep the persistent non-ill people from clogging up the system.
Then I would have a review system fed by patients for every doctor. More than x number of serious complaints and they are investigated and struck off.
Doctors pay should be related to how good they are.
The only part of the NHS I would keep as it is is A and E. With the exception I would channel some of the funds saved from axing other departments into it so we didnt have to wait so long.
If tax funding people's health is a waste of money, then your view on the world is a little warped. You might as well volunteer for the IEA. Meanwhile this list that represents institutional corruption doesn't seem to bother you one bit. Of course, like all detractors of the NHS, he offers no evidence to suggest doing away with the NHS would be better for the overall population, and society.
DeleteI have rarely used the NHS, having been lucky to have good health all my life and suffered no major accidents [or assaults], but I have been happy to pay my bit not just for the time when I may need it but for those less fortunate who often need it all their lives, like a young neighbour who's suffered terrible problems and whose life has depended on the NHS. You sound like a selfish, greedy person who has never considered others, it's just what YOU want that matters right? I agree with the other poster, you're warped, with selfishness and a lack of care for others. You don't really belong in society do you, you'd be better off somewhere in the back of beyond; supporting yourself, relying on number one and no others, thinking of number one and no others, contentedly alone. I expect if you do ever get to need health services you will insist on going private and paying, and you won't have to wait as long either.
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ReplyDeleteThere is much talk in north Norfolk where the sitting Lib Dem M.P. Norman Lamb has taken a ministerial post in the Ministry of Health and the best analysis of his Healthcare attitude differences from ordinary m.p. lifted to ministerial mouthpiece are available locally in North Norfolk, but strangely seemingly not outside those parts.
ReplyDelete"Although the Government has consistently argued the recent controversial NHS Act is not about the privatisation of the NHS, some Conservative county MPs continue to advocate unnecessary tendering to the private sector. It is also noteworthy that local MPs Mark Harper and Richard Graham have received donations from backers of Circle Health, a fast growing private healthcare company."
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ReplyDeleteWe elect MPs to represent our views in Parliament and not to privatise our I repeat our NHS it really is disgusting to privatise OUR NHS as usual snouts in the trough the lot should be booted out they make me sick all they really care about is trying to fill their seemingly bottomless pockets and handbags with Directorships ,I will vote for UKIP and if we do not have a candidate I will not vote! Camerons cast iron guarantees are very very rusty both him and U-TURN Clegg have no shame ,when they renege on their manifesto we should have the opportunity to boot them out as they have gained office on the back of a pack of lies.Pass the sick bag.
ReplyDeleteDepressing but important stuff.
ReplyDeletebtw, you should now move David Miliband into the "retired MPs" section.
Thanks - I have now moved him...
DeleteI am glad you've compiled this list. However, the inclusion of Owen Smith MP does not appear to reflect his actions. Automatically associating him with his previous employers seems unfair. He had a job before entering Parliament - we may not think his employers ethical or like them - but people have to work. It's about what MPs do in Parliament, not who they once worked for.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting point and what that is in need of a debate. Why should a politician be listed here because of a past job? the answer to that is at least in the case of Margot James, they still feel aligned to their past employment - http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-keep-saying-we-but-im-not-really-part.html - as you will read she still feels a part of it, offers advice to her former colleagues.
ReplyDeleteOwen Smith was a lobbyist and it is not beyond imagination that if he was to not be a MP that he may well return to his former role. It happens all the time. Did he keep his contacts there, do they maintain contact? This I do not know, but it is important that his former work be highlighted as a recent past in companies involved in healthcare.
If this list was regarding links to the arms industry, we'd be here forever.
ReplyDeleteRotten through to the core.
ReplyDelete“It cost friends of government just £8.3 billion to get £53 billion in PFI returns”
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