Problems with primary health care provision in parts of south east Wales have been reported for a while. You’re about to read a fuller account. And the fuller it gets, the more disturbing it becomes.

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TO EXPLAIN . . .

It seems the contract to run a number of GP surgeries was awarded to a ‘GP management company’ which then employed the doctors and the other staff required.

But problems soon emerged. And these seemed to fall into two broad categories.

First, there was the quality of the service provided to patients. In some cases, no service at all. Even where there was a rudimentary service, questions arose over hygiene and other matters.

And then there was the issue of non-payment of staff, including doctors. Also, non-payment of suppliers, which resulted in sites being without oxygen and other necessities.

I believe the contract was awarded some time in 2024 because I suspect it links with legislation that came into effect late in 2023. I’m referring now to The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023.

This legislation was an attempt by our respected tribunes down in Corruption Bay to ‘streamline’ and simplify health care provision. What could possibly go wrong?

Now let’s get something straight before going any further. Politicians’ contributions and media reports keep telling us that the contract was awarded to a company called ‘eHarley Street’, but are always vague on the details.

The truth is, as this FoI response from the ‘Welsh Government’ makes clear, the contract was awarded to two GPs: Dr Jalil Ahmed and Dr Jonathan Edward Allinson.

(While I found two Jalil Ahmads registered on the GMC website, one of whom could be our man, I couldn’t find Allinson.)

These two are directors of some 50-odd companies in the eHarley Street stable. All formed in the past five years, and almost all of them shell companies, filing as dormant.

All using the address: ‘Hollybush, Upper Bond Street, Hinkley, Leicestershire LE10 1DA’. Which might sound like a nice upmarket property, but is in fact a former pub, of the type knocked up in the 1950s and ’60s. (I knew a few back in Swansea.)

More recently, it’s served as a restaurant, or pizzeria. Possibly with a flat above.

If I’d seen that those applying for the contract to look after tens of thousands of people in some of the poorest part of Wales were using a run-down pub as their corporate HQ, then alarm bells would have sounded.

At the very least, I would have done some background checks!

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WHO’S WHO AT eHARLEY STREET AND LINKED COMPANIES

Ahmed and Allinson are named as the directors of all the eHarley Street companies. Control over these companies is exercised by Harley Street Health Online Ltd, using the same imposing address in Leicestershire.

Though this company also files as dormant, with no money going through the books. At the most recent declaration, the 100 shares were allocated to: Ahmed and Allinson, 25 each; with 50 to Mrs Nabeela Siddiqi who is also named as ‘the person with significant control’ (PSC) over the company.

And, by extension, the eHarley Street empire. Though this seems to be an empire devoid of both funds and tangible assets.

So, again, how were those involved offered GP contracts in south east Wales?

For there’s no question that those involved with eHarley Street were suspect. I say that because they seemed to follow the same MO in other areas. Here’s a report from Northamptonshire.

As I’ve mentioned, the PSC for what appears to be the parent company, is Mrs Nabeela Siddiqi. And before her it was Mr Faizul (Faiz) Aqtab Siddiqi, who I take to be related. Her husband?

He describes himself as a barrister, but I can find no trace of him on the Barristers’ Register website.

He has a number of companies to his name. There’s HSA Property One Ltd, HSA Property Two Ltd, and HSA Property Three Ltd. All using the Hollybush address. These three companies also filed as dormant, and were all dissolved in July 2023.

His partner in these companies was Halima Ali, or Halima Ali-Fehrmann. Who has or had her own company in H A Audiologists Ltd. This never seemed to turn a profit, now files as dormant, and has avoided a number of attempts at compulsory strike-off.

Another of Siddiqi’s companies is Select Villages Ltd, in the hotel and accommodation business. Also at the Hollybush. The other director here is Dutch resident/citizen Archino Faried Afzal Ali Chedie.

Then there’s Weight Mangement 360 Ltd. Where we find Ahmed Jalil and Jonathan Edward Allinson keeping Siddiqi company. This gives as its address: Suite 5a, 2nd Floor 1-9 Castle Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1DA. We’ll look at this address in a mo.

Another company where we find Chedie, formed as recently as 30 May this year, is Halalification Ltd. I can’t think of any way to interpret that name other than the promotion – imposition? – of Islamic dietary rules.

I wonder what might happen to someone starting a company called ‘Porkification’, promoting bangers, bacon, and Homer Simpson’s favourite – pork chops?

Let me just conclude this section with information on the erstwhile watering-hole in Hinckley. The Land Registry title document tells us it’s owned by Narrative Options Ltd of Watford. But that company appears to have relocated to the Hollybush. Or at least, that’s the address it’s using.

The sole director is an Imran Khan. But the Narrative Options PSC is given as Pearlsfield Enterprises Ltd, also of the Hollybush. And directors of this outfit are given as Chedie, and another Meneer in Mohamed Annes Fatehmahomed.

In fact, Fatehmahomed is or was a named director of no fewer than 171 property and real estate companies, all of which seem to run by Pearlsfield Enterprises. And guess the address for this array of companies!

Who runs Pearlsfield Enterprises? Well it’s Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi. Again.

Siddiqi is also named in the Pandora Papers, linked with MAQ Group Inc of the Seychelles. And I know it’s him because in this diagram we also see Fatehmahomed.

And to clinch matters, MAQ Group was registered with Companies House in January as an Overseas entity. Giving an address in the Netherlands but confirming that it’s a Seychelles-registered company.

And confirming Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi as beneficial owner.

The Abid Mahmood Mughal mentioned in the diagram above is yet another Dutch resident or citizen living in England. And you’ll never guess where the office is for his AMM Design Consultancy Ltd. Go on – have a guess!

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UPDATE 13.08.2025: I’m indebted to a good source for further information.

In January 2023, following the suspension of Dr Adem Akyol, the Isle of Thanet News told its readers that Newington Road GP surgery was under new management.

The new directors are listed as Dr Jalil Ahmed and Dr Jonathan Allinson

In December, the surgery was put up for sale with an asking price of £900,000. Here’s one of the comments from readers. Interestingly, Uden is an estate agent.

And I think this is the key. A group of people with medical credentials now view surgeries and other primary health care facilities as real estate opportunities.

No health board should be doing business with these people.

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CONCLUSION

I could go on, but it would just be more in the same vein. Such as the 22 new companies formed this year with Allinson and Ahmed fronting, Nabeela Siddiqi posing as the person with control, the shares divvied up between them . . . but you just know there’s an unnamed presence in the shadows.

These new companies use names like ‘GP Medical Property (number)’, and ‘GMPS (number)’. They were all formed this year, some as recently as this month. After it became obvious the game was up with eHarley Street.

The only change is that they’re using a new address, but still in Hinckley. Now it’s 1st Floor, 1-9, Castle Street.

This has been a complex investigation and, as I suggested at the top, somewhat disturbing. Because the more I dug the more I wondered what the hell was going on. And why it was allowed to happen.

On the face of it, someone decided to a give contracts to provide GP services to two characters who would have been rumbled by the most elementary background checks. So who made that decision?

Was it the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board?

Was it the ‘Welsh Government’?

Was it civil servants?

Those who made the decision(s) owe the people of Brynmawr, Blaenavon, Pontypool, Tredegar, Liswerry, Butetown, Ystrad Mynach, and other areas an explanation.

Then there’s the money. Ahmed Jalil and Jonathan Edward Allinson were being paid to provide GP services. They failed. They also failed to pay their staff, and their suppliers, both in Wales and in England. So where did the money go?

Did it pass through the labyrinth of companies controlled by Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi and end up in his Seychelles nest egg?

Leaving the world of healthcare we find that Siddiqi has had an inglorious business career, with a string of failed and dissolved companies to his name. Either short-lived shells that never filed, and sank without trace, or else companies going under with major debts.

And let’s not forget the companies where he’s ‘Faiz’ Siddiqi.

One thing’s for sure . . . not paying doctors, cleaners, suppliers, was a planned and organised rip-off. And it should be treated as such. We are dealing with crooks.

And so, I believe it’s time for the police to get involved.

Also, perhaps, the General Medical Council.

Most important of all is putting in place measures to ensure that treatment of the sick and elderly in our poorest communities is never again handed over to outside contractors without rigorous background checks being carried out.

There must be no repeat of this débâcle.

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© Royston Jones 2025