Care UK
Care UK is a private health and social care company operating in the UK. Services it provides include: running 12 GP Led Healthcare Centres, 4 Out of Hours services, 2 NHS Walk-in Centres, 10 NHS Treatment Centres, providing surgery and diagnostic tests for over 37,000 patients each year. It also runs 57 nursing and / or residential care homes.[1]
It is well placed to benefit from the Conservative Party promise to make it easier for private providers to perform more NHS work.
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Political connections and lobbying
In November 2009, Care UK's former chairman John Nash made a donation of £21,000 to then shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley, now Secretary of State for Health. Nash and his wife Caroline are regular Tory donors who have given £107,000 to the party since 2006.[2]
Care UK employs lobbying firm Westminster Advisers Ltd[3] and has in the past employed Portland PR[4] and PLMR. [5]
People
- John Nash, ex-chairman of Care UK. Founder of the private equity fund Sovereign Capital, which owns several healthcare companies.
Funding
Care UK is now backed by Bridgepoint, a private equity firm that has former Tory chairman Lord Patten sitting on its European board. [6]
Lobbying firms
Contact
Care UK
21 Great Winchester Street
London, EC2N 2JA
Website:http://www.careuk.com
Resources
See: The Corporate Capture of the NHS
- Tamasin Cave, The privatising cabal at the heart of our NHS Spinwatch, 1 April 2015.
References
- ↑ Care UK, Facts and Figures, accessed Nov 2010
- ↑ Kirsty Walker ,Tory Health spokesman accepted £21,000 donation from private health firm boss, Daily Mail, 15th January 2010
- ↑ Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 28 January 2015
- ↑ APPC register, to August 2010
- ↑ PLMR, Clients, accessed 9 June 2011
- ↑ Randeep Ramesh, House of Lords will be able to vote on key NHS clause, The Guardian, Wednesday 2 November 2011
- ↑ Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 28 January 2015
- ↑ PLMR clients, Dec-Feb 16, PRCA, accessed 4 May 2016
