The Financial Times has revealed new ties between the NHS and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. On 4 July, the newspaper reported on the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and its involvement in plans for relocating Palestinians and the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’, a scheme that is anything but humanitarian. These twin projects are the basis for what many campaigners and media reports have called a ‘concentration camp’ and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
The Boston Consulting Group is one of the world’s biggest consulting firms. It also has deep ties with the NHS, including millions of pounds worth of consulting contracts. This raises the alarm over the involvement of private companies in the health service, especially those with links to the genocide in Gaza.
Much like Palantir, the Boston Consulting Group shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near our NHS.
This post is based on the article by Greg Dropkin, Merseyside KONP published 15 July 2025.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – far from ‘humanitarian’
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a US organisation founded in February 2025 and designed to replace the role of the UN and international aid agencies. Although it is officially independent, the foundation is backed by Israel and the US Government, which donated $30m in June 2025.
The FT found that the Boston Consulting Group was directly involved in the set-up of the GHF, in a project codenamed ‘Aurora’ which lasted from October 2024 to May 2025.
Far from providing relief to the thousands of Gazans facing starvation, according to UN offshoot ReliefWeb, the GHF’s ‘operational model involves luring civilians to specific locations coordinated with the Israeli army, where they are subjected to killing, injury, and cruel and degrading treatment.’
The GHF’s actions are so awful that even the UK government has spoken against the foundation. At the time of writing, 674 Palestinians have died trying to access aid from the GHF, including 20 in a huge crush on 16 July, along with another 200 at other aid sites. Now, aid agencies are accusing Israel of an ‘aid siege’, as mass starvation spreads across Gaza.
The Financial Times found that US-based Boston Consulting Group was involved in both the displacement of UN and international aid agencies by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as well as plans for ethnic cleansing in Gaza linked to the foundation.
The group’s ‘Aurora’ project also modelled ‘postwar reconstruction’. One scenario had 500,000 Gazans leaving with $9,000 “relocation packages”, or around $5bn in total. In early July, the Israeli Defence Minister unveiled plans for a vast concentration camp near Gaza’s border with Egypt, with a view to Gazans choosing to “voluntarily emigrate” there.
The Boston Consulting Group clearly had a significant role in the setting up of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Equally shocking is that these links and the goals of the GHF have revealed the extent of Israel’s goal of ‘cleansing’ Gaza of Palestinians.
The Boston Consulting Group: Undermining our NHS
In addition to profiting from Palestinian deaths, the Boston Consulting Group is making millions from our NHS, and has been for some time.
In late April, a month before the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was launched, the NHS Blood & Transplant Authority awarded the BCG an £890,000 contract for ‘Commercialisation Professional Services’.
In February 2025, midway through the Boston Consulting Group’s project in Gaza, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust awarded the firm a £5.7m contract which will last until 31 January 2026.
Other contracts that predate the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scandal show the Boston Consulting Group’s deep roots in the NHS.
In 2023, BCG had a £384,000 Population Health Management contract with North London ICB (Integrated Care Board), to identify patients at high risk of hypertension within low-risk cohorts. The ICB has made many other payments to BCG, totalling at least £2.3m.
In 2024, BCG partnered with the NHS Confederation for a report on a ‘whole-of-government’ approach to economic inactivity driven by long-term sickness.
During the pandemic, the firm had a £4.5m contract with the Department of Health and Social Care to advise on strategy for mass testing. The DHSC also signed a separate contract with them worth £2.8m.
Individual trusts also have their own contracts with the BCG. In January 2023, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital paid them £78,000. The former CEO of the GSST Foundation was previously employed by BCG.
This all amounts to around £16.7m worth of contracts between the NHS and the Boston Consulting Group, and is unlikely to be the total sum of money the NHS has signed over to the firm.
No private company should be making this much money out of our health service, let alone one with such strong links to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
We need an NHS that is publicly provided, funded and accountable. The millions of pounds spent on the private sector could be going towards improving vital services, rather than the Boston Consulting Group, Palantir, or the myriad other private companies parasitising the NHS and public money.
As we campaign to save the NHS, we see the total destruction of healthcare in Gaza, a genocide aided by companies also involved in the NHS, and we join the critical demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and for aid to be let in, urgently. This is why we call for an immediate end to the Boston Consulting Group’s involvement in the NHS.
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