Private companies with financial links to Tory politicians won NHS contracts worth £1.5bn within three years

Private companies with financial links to Tory politicians won NHS contracts worth £1.5 billion between 2012 and 2014, according to research by the UK’s largest trade union.

Among those highlighted in Unite research is former health secretary Andrew Lansley, the chief architect of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act dubbed “the death of the NHS as we know it”. Lansley received a donation of £21,000 from Caroline Nash, the wife of John Nash, in 2009. At the time John Nash was chairman of Care UK, one of the UK’s largest health companies, which, according to Unite, won more than £650m in NHS contracts between 2012-2014.

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Sources:

• “‘Selling off NHS for profit’: Full list of MPs with links to private healthcare firms“, Daily Mirror, 4 Feb 2015
• “Companies with links to Tories ‘have won £1.5bn worth of NHS contracts’“, The Guardian, 3 Oct 2014
• “Tories in £1.5 billion NHS sell-off scandal“, Unite, 4 Oct 2014
• “Health act means the death of the NHS as we know it“, The Guardian opinion, 30 March 2013