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{{Template:Health badge}} {{Template: Revolving Door badge}}'''Nick Seddon''' is a former private healthcare lobbyist who was appointed special adviser to UK prime minister [[David Cameron]] in May 2013. His brief covers health, social care and life sciences.
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{{Template:Health badge}} {{Template: Revolving Door badge}}'''Nick Seddon''' served as a special adviser to the former UK prime minister [[David Cameron]], from May 2013 to July 2016, for which he earned an annual salary of £88,000. <ref> [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486829/List_of_Special_Advisers_in_post_at_17_December_2015.pdf List special advisers in post at 17 December 2015], ''GOV.uk'', accessed 6 February 2017. </ref> His brief covered health, social care and life sciences.
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He is a former private healthcare lobbyist.  
  
 
==Lobbying for private healthcare==
 
==Lobbying for private healthcare==

Revision as of 11:19, 6 February 2017

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Nick Seddon served as a special adviser to the former UK prime minister David Cameron, from May 2013 to July 2016, for which he earned an annual salary of £88,000. [1] His brief covered health, social care and life sciences.

He is a former private healthcare lobbyist.

Lobbying for private healthcare

Before joining the Number 10 policy unit, Seddon was deputy director of Reform - a right-leaning free market think tank which receives funding from healthcare and insurance companies.

Before this, Seddon was head of communications for Circle, the first private healthcare company to run an NHS hospital, Hinchingbrooke.

Before joining No 10 under Labour, he also led the ‘cross-government delivery unit for the Health, Work and Wellbeing Strategy’, supporting Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s workforce. [2]

Seddon's salary for his health adviser position is £78,000 annually. [3]

Affiliations

Resources

Notes

  1. List special advisers in post at 17 December 2015, GOV.uk, accessed 6 February 2017.
  2. Guide to No.10 The House Parliament's Magazine, 03.2014, accessed 8 October 2014
  3. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015

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