Nick Seddon

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

Nick Seddon is a former private healthcare lobbyist who was appointed health advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron in May 2013.

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.

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

Affiliations

• Reform
• Circle

Resources

• Joe Murphy, Controversy over new Tory health advisor Nick Seddon who called for NHS cuts and charges for GP visits, Evening Standard, 9 May 2013

• Andrew Robertson, "This Can't Go On" - Cameron hires private health lobbyist into the heart of government, 13 May 2013, OpenDemocracy

• See Powerbase's Private Healthcare Network Map

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