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Concerns have been raised over government links to healthcare tycoons after the Conservative Party received £5 million from a man whose company is currently raking in £800,000 a week in NHS contracts.
The Department of Health and Social Care has paid a firm owned by Frank Hester an eye-watering £137 million in hidden payments, seemingly for digitising NHS records.
Payments to Hester’s Phoenix Partnership – which are running at around £800,000 a week – continue to flow, according to the law charity, helping Hestor rake in astronomical sums in dividends.
The accounts of the holding company, which is 100 per cent owned by Hester, reveal that he was paid £10 million in dividends last year, and his operating company has paid dividends of £52 million in the last four years.
A clip of Sir Michael Marmont, an internationally revered epidemiologist, has been shared on social media after the revelation became clear.
In it, he points out that, if your hypothesis was that the government was seeking to destroy the NHS “all the data are consistent with that hypothesis.”
Watch the clip in full below:
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