When there’s money to be made it seems they just can’t help themselves. If we can’t trust them with the NHS how are we expected to trust them with the UK? Here they are in alphabetical order by surname.
Harriette Baldwin private NHS interests
Harriett Baldwin was former executive at JP Morgan, a major player in private healthcare.Quester VCT 5 plc, a venture capital firm with multiple investments in healthcare companies.
Gregory Barker private NHS interests
Gregory Barker held shares in Quester VCT 5 plc, a venture capital firm with multiple investments in healthcare companies.
Henry Bellingham private NHS interests
Henry Bellingham was director of Lansdowne Advisory Ltd, which has shares in private healthcare company Circle.
Jake Berry private NHS interests
Jake Berry has interests in legal firm Squire Patton Boggs, which worked with multiple NHS trusts on PFI and PPP programs.
Graham Brady private NHS interests
Graham Brady was advisor to PA Consulting, a management consultancy company which has worked with the NHS’s new Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Andrew Bridgen private NHS interests
Andrew Bridgen is 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 private NHS interests
Steve Brine accepted nearly £15,000 in donations from James Lupton, the chairman of investment bankers, Greenhill Europe which has a global network of corporate relationships in the healthcare sector.
Aiden Burley private NHS interests
Aidan Burley accepted six bottles of wine from Hitachi consultants for a speech in 2011. Hitachi Consulting UK built an online ‘portal’ for NHS commissioners to help them monitor performance.
Simon Burns private NHS interests
Simon Burns attended an oncology conference paid for by Aventis Pharma – a five-day trip to the US funded by a leading drug firm.
Nick de Bois private NHS interests
Nick de Bois was majority shareholder in Rapier Design Group, an events management company heavily involved with the private medical and pharmaceutical industries.
David Cameron private NHS interests
David Cameron handed a peerage to nursing and care home tycoon Dolar Popat, who has given the Tories more than £200,000 in donations.
Damian Collins private NHS interests
Damian Collins spent almost a decade working for marketing agency M&C Saatchi, whose clients include PPP healthcare, AXA insurance, Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck.
David Davis private NHS interests
David Davis accepted £4,250 for a six-hour speaking engagement for private health insurance company Aviva.
Jonathan Djanogly private NHS interests
Jonathan Djanogly accepted £1,900 from Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, which manufactures medical and orthopaedic equipment and instruments.
Richard Drax private NHS interests
Richard Drax accepted £14,000 in a series of donations from Derek Luckhurst, chief executive and owner of care home group Agincare.
Iain Duncan-Smith private NHS interests
Iain Duncan-Smith has shares in hygiene technology company Byotrol plc, which sells products to the NHS.
Philip Dunne private NHS interests
Philip Dunne was a non-executive director for investment firm Baronsmead VCT 4 plc, which had multiple investments in private healthcare companies.
Michael Fallon private NHS interests
Michael Fallon was director of Attendo AB, a Swedish private health company.
Mark Field private NHS interests
Mark Field was board advisor to Ellwood and Atfield, a recruitment firm which recruit for NHS positions and private healthcare.
Liam Fox private NHS interests
Liam Fox accepted £5,000 from investment company IPGL Ltd, who purchased healthcare pharma company Cyprotex.
George Freeman private NHS interests
George Freeman has shares in Hill House Assets Ltd, formally private health firm 4D Biomedical Ltd.
Mike Freer private NHS interests
Mike Freer provided marketing advice to Care Matters, a financial planning company for care homes.
Richard Fuller private NHS interests
Richard Fuller worked for L.E.K consulting, which has six ‘partners’ in European healthcare.
Dominic Grieve private NHS interests
Dominic Grieve has shares in Reckitt Benckiser, GlaxoSmithKline, Diageo, Astrazeneca, Standard Chartered (Health insurance).
William Hague private NHS interests
William Hague accepted £20,000 donation from MMC Ventures, which parts owns The Practice plc which runs 60 GP surgeries.
Philip Hammond private NHS interests
Philip Hammond is beneficiary of a trust which owns a controlling interest in healthcare and nursing home developer Castlemead Ltd.
Jeremy Hunt private NHS interests
Jeremy Hunt accepted £32,920 from hedge fund baron Andrew Law, a major investor in healthcare firms.
Margot James private NHS interests
Margot James had a key role at marketing giant WPP Group, which had a long list of healthcare clients.
Mark Lancaster private NHS interests
Mark Lancaster old adviser to property venture capital firm Company Palmer Capital Partners Ltd, a funder of Danescroft Commercial Developments, which has worked in the healthcare sector.
Andrew Lansley private NHS interests
Andrew Lansley accepted £21,000 in Nov 2009 from John Nash, the former chairman of Care UK.
Oliver Letwin private NHS interests
Oliver Letwin was a non-executive director of N.M. Rothschild Corporate Finance Ltd, which invests heavily in healthcare.
Peter Lilley private NHS interests
Peter Lilley is non-Executive director of management software firm Idox plc, which provides services to the NHS Health Libraries Group and NHS Education for Scotland.
Tim Loughton private NHS interests
Tim Loughton accepted £350 for sessions with Cumberlege Connections, a political networking firm that works “extensively” with the pharmaceutical industry.
Mary Macleod private NHS interests
Mary MacLeod was a senior executive at Andersen Consulting/Accenture, which has profited from big PFI deals.
Francis Maude private NHS interests
Francis Maude was a director of PR firm Huntsworth plc, which was part of lobbying group Healthcare Communications Association.
Patrick Mercer private NHS interests
Patrick Mercer is adviser 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 private NHS interests
Maria Miller was director of Grey’s Advertising Ltd, an advertising and brand company which worked extensively with clients in the healthcare sector.
Andrew Mitchell private NHS interests
Andrew Mitchell was a strategy adviser to global management firm Accenture, which has worked extensively with private healthcare companies and the NHS.
Penny Mordaunt private NHS interests
Penny Mordaunt had worked for lobbying firm Hanover, where she had a range of healthcare clients.
Brooks Newmark private NHS interests
Brooks Newmark is partner in the Allele Fund, which invests in healthcare startups.
Jesse Norman private NHS interests
Jesse Norman accepted £5,000 from Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
Stephen O’Brien private NHS interests
Stephen O’Brien accepted £40,000 from Julian Schild, whose family made £184 million in 2006 by selling hospital bed-makers Huntleigh Technology.
George Osborne private NHS interests
George Osborne accepted donation through Conservative Campaign Headquarters from Julian Schild
Richard Ottaway private NHS interests
Richard Ottaway visited 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.
Priti Patel private NHS interests
Priti Patel worked for lobbying firm Weber Shandwick, which does PR for big healthcare and pharmaceutical firms.
John Redwood private NHS interests
John Redwood advised the private equity company which runs Pharmacy2u, the UK’s largest dedicated internet and mail order pharmacy.
Jacob Rees-Mogg private NHS interests
Jacob Rees-Mogg is partner of Somerset Capital Management LLP, which has healthcare investor Redwood Emerging Markets Dividend Income Fund as a client.
Malcolm Rifkind private NHS interests
Malcolm Rifkind is Chairman of advisory board at L.E.K. Consulting LLP, which helps private healthcare firms identify “new business development” and “opportunities with the Government”.
David Ruffley private NHS interests
David Ruffley accepted £10,000 in donations from Caroline Nash, wife of former Care UK chairman John Nash.
Mark Simmonds private NHS interests
Mark Simmonds accepted £50,000 per year as a “strategic adviser” to Circle Health.
Chris Skidmore private NHS interests
Chris Skidmore accepted £3,500 for speeches to STAC Consultancy, which specialises in the launch of pharmaceutical products.
Nicholas Soames private NHS interests
Nicholas Soames accepted £2,000 from Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
Andrew Tyrie private NHS interests
Andrew Tyrie attended the Ryder Cup as Secretary of the Parliamentary Golf Society, with travel and accommodation paid for by U.S. healthcare services company Humana Europe. This is the man who said he wants fracking but not in his back yard.
David Willetts private NHS interests
David Willetts has shares in Sensortec, a company that owns Vantix which was working on a contract for a new product to detect MRSI.
Rob Wilson private NHS interests
Rob Wilson had shares in Vital Imaging, a private screening company.
Nadhim Zahawi private NHS interests
Nadhim Zahawi is non-executive director of recruitment company SThree, which specialises in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sector.
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