1st May 2025

NHS now corporate health
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems.

Corporate profits in eye care
This Centre for Health and Public Interest report looks at how the very rapid growth in private sector provision of NHS cataract care has happened and the profits of some of the companies involved.

Samantha Jones: permanent secretary
Former CEO of Operose Health, a large privately-owned chain of NHS GP practices and chief executive of West Hertfordshire and Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Trusts, is appointed permanent secretary in DHSC.

Politicians funded by private healthcare
When private companies and people linked to the private healthcare sector give donations and benefits to senior Labour politicans, they might expect something in return.

Hedge Fund Labour
Since early 2020 the party has stopped condemning NHS privatisation and privateer donors have returned. Read on for a summary of Labour’s donor links to the private health industry.

Court rules on Physician Assistants
The BMA sought to establish that the application of ‘Good Medical Practice’ to PAs and the use of the term ‘medical professionals’ by the GMC are both ‘unlawful’. However, the BMA called the High Court decision ‘regrettable’ ruling in favour of the GMC.

Starmer vists Palantir HQ
Mandelsen, now British Ambassador to US, arranged for Starmer to visit Palantir. Did they discuss Palantir’s work with US agencies accused of separating children from their parents, wrongfully detaining thousands of US citizens and forcibly sterilising women?