Samantha Jones

Samantha Jones
Expert Adviser on NHS transformation and Social Care In office April 2021 - Present Employer Boris Johnson  Chief Executive Officer In office January 2019 - April 2021 Employer Operose Health  Freelance In office September 2017 - January 2019  Director of New Care Models In office January 2015 - May 2017 Employer NHS England  CEO of West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust In office February 2013 - January 2015 Employer NHS

Samantha Jones, former CEO of Operose Health, the UK arm of US health insurance giant Centene, is Boris Johnson's expert adviser on NHS transformation and social care.

Johnbosco Nwogbo, campaigns officer at We Own It told the Daily Mirror:

"It is absolutely shocking that Boris Johnson has hired the CEO of the UK arm of a US health insurance giant as his health advisor.

"It's made all the worse by the fact the company in question - Operose - has just taken over 49 GP practices across London, and whose American wing - Centene - is currently being sued in the USA for allegedly inflating costs and overcharging government departments.

"This is the revolving door of NHS privatisation in action - senior figures in the private health sector take on senior jobs in government and vice versa. The risk here is clear - a former private health company boss advising the government on health policy is unlikely to make the case for a publicly owned and publicly funded NHS.

"It's time to end these cosy connections between government and the private health sector. And it's time to kick the private companies out of our NHS and reinstate it as a fully public service."

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