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Social Investigations: NHS privatisation: Compilation of financial and ve...

This represents the latest list of recent or present financial links between parliamentarians and individuals or companies involved in private healthcare.

The list is up-to-date as of March 2nd 2014. Another list will be drawn up prior to the election. The previous list is representative of who had these interests when they voted on the Health and Social Care bill, helping it become Act.

MPs and Lords are able to vote on legislation, even when they have a direct financial interest. This happened with the Health and Social Care Act, which saw the NHS being forced into a world of an external market. The legislation was written for industry, by industry and is part of the overall plan for it's demise and the eventual takeover by private health insurance companies.

Not our words, but those of Oliver Letwin and John Redwood in their 1988 publication for the Centre for Policy Studies, 'Britain's Biggest Enterprise.'

The rules are not fit for purpose, it is not enough to simply register your interests and then vote as you like. Local councillors must abide by a stricter regime, which is imposed on them by parliament. Why should we the public be placed in a position whereby we have to take the politicians word for it that despite their interest, their vote was in the best interest of the public? It is time, that parliament ended this hypocrisy.

What point are the rules, if there is no punitive action when they get broken. The committees made up of parliamentarians, decide the punishment of themselves. When a serious wrongdoing is committed, all that is often handed down, is a suspension, whiles they are able to remain on as an MP, before being able to return to the fold. Resignations mean nothing to parliament, but a great deal to a public who rightfully see our political elite as a law unto themselves.

So, when an opportunity came for the public to receive more power in the form of a 'Recall', the government failed utterly to introduce it. The message this gave, was that we do not trust you with more power, especially that, which will hold our elected representatives to account.

The list below, which is by no means totally complete, highlights the various interests in healthcare. They are of varying significance with some persons being the sole owners of companies, chairman, directors, advisers, consultants, shares, you name it. What this list should do is act as a catalyst to reform. Many of those on the list are attached to companies that have financially gained from the changes made possible by the new Health Act, which in turn was made possible by their vote.

The list has gone out far and wide, although largely ignored by the mainstream media. Therefore it is up to us all to spread this list as far and as wide as possible.

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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. 

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