article_snippet: And yesterday it emerged that Mr Taylor’s company, Nevsky Capital, advises a fund with a £10million stake in United Health, an American private healthcare giant which has run NHS-funded GP surgeries and is bidding for health service contracts.
article_snippet: United Health UK, United Health UK arm in this country, has run a number of GP surgeries over the past few years.
article_snippet: But United Health UK was fined tens of millions of dollars in the USA for allegations it over-charged patients.
article_snippet: it is also bidding for other NHS work including a controversial £1.2billion contract for cancer and end-of-life care in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent, described as the health service’s biggest ever privatisation.
article_snippet: The deal - for which a number of other private companies including Richard Branson’s Virgin Care Ltd are also bidding - has been opposed by Labour’s Andy Burnham who said all private contracts should be halted until after the General Election.
highlights_snippet: The US private healthcare giant has run NHS-funded GP surgeries .