Private Healthcare Network Map

This article is part of the Health Portal project of Spinwatch.

Private healthcare companies have built a dense and largely opaque network of political contacts in the UK with one aim – to influence policy in their interests and get the reforms they want.

Web of private healthcare influence, March 2011

Companies, organizations and individuals mentioned in the map

Companies

• Bridgepoint Capital | Capita | Care UK | Cinven | Circle | General Healthcare Group | Lilly | KPMG | McKinsey | Pfizer | Spire Healthcare | Roche | Tribal | UnitedHealth

Think tanks

• 2020Health | Centre for Policy Studies | Doctors for Reform | Policy Exchange | Reform | Kings Fund | Julia Manning | Paul Charlson | Tom Sackville

PR and lobbying firms

Quiller |

PR and lobbying personnel

Peter Gummer | George Bridges

Government

• Andrew Lansley | Alan Milburn | Bill Morgan | Department of Health | Monitor