EveryDoctor has spent the last three years meticulously tracking donations to MPs from individuals and organisations with interests in the private healthcare sector.
Our research has uncovered more than £2.9 million in donations from donors with connections to the industry.
That might sound like a lot, but it’s chump change compared to profits that the private sector stands to make if it can expand the services it provides to the NHS.
While the industry has an estimated market value of £13 billion, that is dwarfed by the £240 billion the UK spent on public health services last year.
In light of this, we have once again updated our database to include all donations recorded between April and September 2025.
We found that former Tory MP Robert Jenrick, now a Reform MP, received £10,000 from West End Medical Practice, a private GP clinic. Its owner Ashraf Chohan has a portfolio of medical and nursing businesses in London and is also the chairman and founder of the Conservative Friends of the NHS, which has previously called for mandatory health insurance.
We also identified new donations from donors that have already given significant sums to the Labour party.
Daniel Luhde-Thompson, a strategic advisor at the investment firm Quadrature Capital, gave £40,000 to four Labour MPs. Quadrature has more than $200m (£158.7m) in shareholdings in private healthcare firms, according to the news website Torchlight.
Trevor Chinn, a senior advisor to the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners which has investments in dozens of private healthcare companies based in the UK, Europe and Asia, gave £7,500 to several MPs.
To do this work, we scour the declarations that MPs make in their Register of Financial Interests, which are published fortnightly by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
We screen all donations over £5000 using various public sources to see if the donor has any interests in the private healthcare sector. For example, we found more than 120 donors which had financial investments in private healthcare companies.
To build our database we painstakingly sifted through almost 6,000 donations between January 2023 and September 2025.
Such connections are rarely ever readily apparent and checking to see if a donation leads back to private healthcare interest takes time. All we have to go on is the name of a company or an individual.
Our findings have heaped pressure on ministers and MPs, putting their uncomfortable connections to the private healthcare sector in the spotlight. After we revealed that Wes Streeting received more than £200,000 from private healthcare interests, several media organisations reported our findings.
This September, we want to update our database again, but we need your help to keep doing this urgent work.
It’s vital the public know exactly who is donating to MPs if we are to track the influence of the private healthcare industry.
We’re just a small team of campaigners up against a multi-billion pound industry. That’s why we are counting on donations from supporters like you.
Dr Julia Patterson, CEO of EveryDoctor, said:
“The NHS belongs to the public, not private interests. When money from those connected to the private healthcare sector flows into politics, it risks undermining trust in how decisions are made.Our research highlights the importance of shining a light on these relationships. If we want a health service based on need, not profit, we must ensure that political influence is transparent and accountable.”
Please donate if you can to help us carry on our work.
