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EveryDoctor Uncovers Millions in Private Healthcare Donations to UK Politicians

Campaign group EveryDoctor has once again shone a light on the murky financial ties between UK politicians and the private healthcare sector—connections that signal further corporate influence over the future of the NHS.

The group, known for its persistent efforts to expose NHS privatisation, has revealed that MPs received more than £2.7 million in donations from individuals and companies with vested interests in private healthcare between 2023 and 2025.

This builds on previous findings.

In 2023, EveryDoctor and reported by this website and news outlets like The Canary highlighted how both Conservative ministers and Labour shadow cabinet members had accepted significant contributions from private healthcare-linked donors. Among them was Labour’s current health secretary, Wes Streeting, who took a donation from Peter Hearn, director of OPD Group—heavily involved in private healthcare and one of the UK’s top political donors. Hearn has also donated to other Labour MPs, including Dan Jarvis and Yvette Cooper.

By October 2024, the Good Law Project reported that over 60% of Streeting’s donations came from people and companies connected to the private health sector—signalling deepening entanglement.

Now, EveryDoctor’s new research reveals:

• £1.4 million of the total came from firms with private healthcare investments, such as asset managers.

• £312,204 came from companies already contracted by the NHS.

• £230,000+ was donated by directors of firms invested in private healthcare.

• Lobbyists with private healthcare clients gave over £110,000 to MPs.

Founder Dr. Julia Grace Patterson called the findings “appalling,” especially the revelation that lobbyists are funneling money into Parliament through donations.

This is just the beginning. EveryDoctor plans to release a detailed report and updated map of the links between politicians and private health interests, revealing the extent of corporate capture in UK healthcare policy.

Their previous investigations laid the groundwork: mapping the vast scale of NHS outsourcing and exposing how NHS England has poured public money into private mental health services. In this context, it’s no surprise that the Labour government appears to be continuing the Tory-led drive toward NHS privatisation.

With more revelations expected, EveryDoctor’s next report is likely to confirm what many fear: politicians—across parties—are increasingly aligned with private healthcare profiteers, not the public they were elected to serve.

It also proves that politicians of all parties. except perhaps for those from the Green Party, are no friends of the NHS!

To learn more about EveryDoctor campaign group, and the doctors involved in the campaign, click the EveryDoctor logo

See also: NHS Privatisation News Archive

Source: EveryDoctor

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