This list represents the dire state of
our democracy. The financial and vested interests of our MPs and Lords in
private healthcare. Why are these people allowed to be in charge of our NHS, to
vote on a bill that they clearly have something to gain from. 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 the
privatisation 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?
The
list is long, and could surely be longer, 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 one of these listed is your MP, then
contact them and let them know you will not be voting for them again if
this bill goes through. If the Lord is under your area, email them and
let them know what you think. If there are others to be added, then
please let me know with link to source - as this is by no means a
complete list. Equally if you think someone should not be on here, then
please say with reason and then they may come off if justified as the
list should be as strong as possible.
In
short - they won't be stopped unless they are stopped. They do not
listen and nor do they care. 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) taken from the Daily Mirror research: These
are also available in register of interests, and some from my own
research, the list continues to expand but so far for Lords is bout
eighty.
In addition to the list below research by Dr Éoin Clarke -
has revealed 333 donations from private healthcare sources totalling £8.3 million has been gifted to the Tories. Here is the database of those donations and 'gifts'.
Conservative Lords
1. Lord Ashcroft: Conservative benches and funder - Until 2010, held
investments in two private healthcare groups.
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 Ballyedmond: Conservative - Chairman of
pharmaceutical company Norbrook Laboratories.
4. 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.
5. 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 - conflict of interest), between 1978 and 1994.
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.
6. Lord Blyth of Rowington: Conservative - Senior adviser to
investment bankers Greenhill. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
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 ...'
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Lord Carrington - 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. Although Lord Carrington's shares are stated as being in household products, in the end it is the same pot.
12. Lord Chadlington:
Conservative - Chief executive of Huntsworth
communications group with several lobbying firms. Huntsworth Health
chaired a meeting on commissioning on behalf of Healthcare
Communications Association, a group whose members consist of PR agencies
and pharmaceutical companies. Members set to make increasing profits
from the Health and Social care bill.
13. 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.
14. 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.
Quotes on bill: 'I applaud the flexibility of the Bill.'
15. Lord Dixon-Smith -
Conservative - has shares in Vodaphone group plc - Vodaphone 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 Vodaphone 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.'
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, Vodaphone group.
21. 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. Newly
appointed Senior Managing Director of Evercore Mr Maisonrouge said: 'Evercore has advised on some of the most noteworthy healthcare transactions.'
22. 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.
23. Lord Garel-Jones: Conservative - MD of UBS bank, whose
healthcare division earned the firm over $1billion since 2005.
24. 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 becaue 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.
25. 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
are 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. Voted loyally on the Health and Social care bill.
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 Koln Ferry will be recruiting for the new
NHS.
26. 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.
27. Lord Hamilton of Epsom
- Conservative: Has a directorship with MSB Ltd (managing consultancy),
who have NHS, Bupa and CareUK listed as their clients. Care UK chairman
John Nash funded Andrew Lansley's office.
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.
28. Lord Hayhoe - Conservative - shares in Abbott Laboratories ltd (pharmaceuticals, and medical products) supplies NHS.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. Baroness Hooper: Conservative - Until July 11, chairman
of Advisory Committee of Barclays Infrastructure Funds, one of the most
experienced investors in hospital PFI deals.
32. Lord Howard of Lympne:
Conservative - Senior adviser to
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?
33. 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.
34. 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) -
Vodaphone 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 Vodaphone UK as its
communications partner.
35. 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".
36. Lord Lawson
- Conservative - Chairman of Oxford Investment Partners whose
investment management team 'has more than 50 years of investment
experience with a dedicated focus on communications, healthcare and
sustainability. 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? Oxford Capital Partners invested £550,000 in Oxitec
Ltd led investments in a number of science and technology companies
including several spin outs from UK universities. Our current investment
portfolio includes 8 university spin outs of which four are from the
University of Oxford: Avidex (drug discovery); g-Nostics
(pharmacogenetics); Oxonica (nanotechnology)
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. Lord Maple
- 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.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. 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 Vodaphone
group: Vodaphone
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 Vodaphone 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.
44. 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.'
45. Baron Newton of Braintree: Conservative - Advisor to Oasis Healthcare on dentistry and general healthcare matters.
46. 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. Vodaphone Group plc, Vodaphone
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 Vodaphone 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.'
47. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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. Voted loyally on Health and Social care bill.
51. Lord Saatchi
- A partner and shares in M&C Saatchi plc - a marketing company.
Involved in multiple campaign projects for the governement 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.
52. Earl of Selborne: Shares in Prudential, which offers private health insurance.
53. 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.
54. 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.
55. 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 multiple members
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.
56. 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.
57. 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)
58. 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".
59. Lord Waldegrave
- Tory Adviser, UBS Investment Bank UBS bank, whose healthcare division
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.
60. Lord Wasserman
- Conservative - Shares in Diageo plc a 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.
61. 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.
62. 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
Liberal Democrats
Lord Alliance: Liberal Democrat - 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.
Lord Clement-Jones:
Liberal Democrats - 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.
Lord Lee -
Liberal Democrats - 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.
Lord Lester -
Liberal Democrats - 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.
Lord Rennard: Liberal
Democrats - 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.
Lord Sharman -
Liberal Democrats - 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.
Lord steel - Liberal
Democrats - 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.
Lord Taverne:
Liberal Democrats - 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.
Lord Vallance -
Liberal Democrat - 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.
Lord Watson -
Liberal Democrat - 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."
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.'
Labour Lords
Lord Carter - Labour - the head of the increasingly influential Competition and Cooperation Panel, is
an 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
Lord Filkin: Labour - Adviser to outsourcing giant Serco, heavily involved
in NHS services.
Lord Harris of Haringey: Labour - Senior adviser to business
services giant KPMG, who are heavily involved in implementing changes in the NHS and its commissioning groups Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 2001.
Lord Hutton of Furness: Labour - Ex-health minister is an adviser to law
firm Eversheds. Clients include care homes and private hospitals.
Lord Leitch: - Labour Bupa chairman.
Lord Puttnam: Labour - Director of Huntsworth communications group. global public relations and integrated
healthcare communications group. Did
not stand for the board this year (2012).
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 Evans of Watford: Labour - Director of healthcare
property firm Care Capital.
Baroness Morgan of Huyton: Labour - Ex-director of failed care home
firm Southern Cross.
Crossbench
Lord Adebowale -
Crossbench - 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.
Lord Boyce - Crossbench - non-executive director of global engineering and design company WS Atkins - who are 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.
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.'
Lord Chorley:
Crossbench - 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.
Lord Currie of Marylebone:
Chairman of Semperian, an investment vehicle, which owns a portfolio of
mature Public Private Partnership investments, including hospitals.
Lord Elystan - Has bonds held in HSBC-controlled companies - According to a Times report in 2008, HSBC made almost £100 million from managing NHS 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.
Earl of Errol -
Crossbench - 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.
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.
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank
- Crossbench - Member of the advisory board of Cannacord Genuity a
global capital markets division of Cannacord financial Inc. Their website states: 'Cannacord Genuity focusses on public and private healthcare companies, at all stages of development.'
Lord Hameed:
Crossbench - 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.
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.
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 'no mercy'.
Baroness Hayman - Has shares in Standard Chartered plc, which offers healthcare through Aviva for its customers, and general health insurance.
Baroness Hogg of Kettlethorpe:
Crossbench - Chair of Frontier Economics, a consultancy that advises
private sector clients on the impact of healthcare reforms and how "to
shape regulatory environments".
Lord Jones of Birmingham - Crossbench - 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.
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard - Crossbench - 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.
Lord Kilclooney - Crossbench - Shares in Vodaphone - Vodaphone
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 Vodaphone UK as its communications
partner.
Lord Levene - Crossbench - Holds shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, which is heavily involved in the healthcare sector.
Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge - 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.
Lord Millett - Has shares in Diageo - (See Lord Wasserman). Shares in GlaxoSmithKline.
Duke of Norfolk - 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.
Lord Owen - Shares in Abbot Laboratories global healthcare company - supplies NHS with Lab equipment, reagents.
Lord Palmer - Shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline
Lord Patten of Barnes: Adviser to private equity firm Bridgepoint.
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.
Lord Quirk: Has shares in pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Astrazeneca and Walgreen. For more on Walgreens. Shares in Standard chartered who offer health insurance.
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.
Lord St John: 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.
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.
Lord Sutherland: Non-executive
chairman of Scottish Care - now represents the largest group of Health
and Social Care independent providers across Scotland, delivering
residential care, day care, care at home, and housing support.
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
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MPs
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/
Andrew Lansley
- Conservative - John Nash, the chairman 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.
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.
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
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
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.
Michael Fallon –
Conservative MP for Sevenoaks – Director of Attendo AB since 2008 – 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.
Robert Smith: Liberal Democratic MP for West Aberdeenshire and KIncardine - Has shares in pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, GSK
is the UK's leading supplier of COPD medicines, supplies the NHS.
Shares in Legal and general, which offer private health insurance.
David Miliband
- Labour 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 recied 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.
Alan Milburn, 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
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
David
Willetts - Conservative MP for Havant and the Minister of State for
Universities and Science. Has shares in 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 SBRI contract which provides
opportunities for innovative companies to engage witht he 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.
Frank Field – Labour
Birkenhead MP – 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? Less
so than some others, but private health companies are set to profit massively
if the bill goes through.
Stephen
O’Brien Eddisbury MP - Conservative - 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/
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/
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.
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.
Liam Fox – Former
Conservative MP – 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.
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
Description
|
No.
|
Total value
|
|
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.
