Nick Seddon

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

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

This article is part of the Revolving Door project of Spinwatch.

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.

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. 

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
• Nick Seddon, Why the NHS needs a regulator, The Telegraph, 18 May 2011

• See Powerbase's Private Healthcare Network Map

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