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
Did you read my piece on the Gwlad site? If so, I’d be interested in your thoughts. Stephen Morris was my copy editor so can’t take all the credit/blame! Do you remember some ‘consultancy’ was actually paid to reach a conclusion that outdoor spaces should have segregated areas for people from cultures which don’t like dogs? It’s simply beyond satire at this point. Are they trying to stoke racial tension, or just seriously piss people off?
Also, there’s been quite a bit of flag-hanging around my parts, both the Apron and the actual national flag. Presumably an adjunct of what’s been going on in England. Anything of that ilk been happening round by ew?
I had read it, but now I’ve re-read it. Here’s my view.
It was good in setting out a rational, almost unemotional, case for independence. Which we need. Though I must take issue with you on one point.
You wrote that the UK was, “skewed by England’s sheer size and dominance“. But then, more than once, you argue for us to follow the Scandinavian model.
But the Scandinavian countries are all relatively small, and spread over a huge area; whereas we are cheek-by-jowl with a country twenty times our size. What’s more, not one of the Scandinavian countries has dominated another for almost a thousand years. Another factor to consider would be that (Finns excluded) there was always a certain cultural and linguistic closeness with the Nordics.
So I’m not sure there is an off-the-shelf model for any future relationship with England. Ireland would be the closest I can think of.
I was thinking in terms of how we can share in an identity post-UK, as the Nordics do, rather than any attempt at hashing out a potential formal relationship. If anything, I’d argue identity and political makeup can be completely unrelated; indeed, I think my Nordics example does make this sort of point.
I was seeking to reclaim what it can mean to be British, a trick I feel the movements in Wales and Scotland have missed given it’s not a label or badge like in Northern Ireland, but an inescapable fact of geography.
Cymraeg’s difference to English notwithstanding, I’d say we’re very similar culturally with England, as indeed we are with all nations in these isles. Also, I’m sure Norway only became independent from Sweden before the First World War, and at various points over the last millennium ruling power in the region swapped between Denmark and Sweden? Could be wrong though.
Excellent reporting. I recognised names of some of the villains. I think you might find that this lot have had a go in Wales before. They seem to use bribes and promises as the political in. Loca Ventures Limited, owned by a company in the BVI, and MAQ inc in the Seychelles, tried to get their hands on Parc Howard. That was in 2015. Loca Ventures got some football players involved in this and other schemes. Steven Gerrard bought a holiday property from them in Wales I think, this may have helped with convincing the following persons to open doors.
In 2019 ex head of Carmarthenshire council Mark James, and cllr Meryll Griffiths had their homes raided by the fraud squad.
https://carmarthenplanning.blogspot.com/2015/06/parc-howard-for-people-of-llanelli.html
Blood hell! Will look into this tomorrow. getting a piece ready for the morning at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4rm6qGK9I
Aqtab Faizul Siddiqi is the muslim cult leader at Hijaz College in Nuneaton. He set up Sharia courts in UK, and made a speech attacking Charlie Hebdo after the journalists were murdered. He published the name of the teacher at Batley Grammar school, resulting in him having to ‘disappear’ with his family due to death threats from extremists.Has caused contoversy in The Hague https://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/the-long-arm-of-the-sheikhs/64798834.html . He is an Hawala banker moving dark money. He has used thousands of UK companies and property to do this.
Just the sort of guy who will be greeted like a long lost cousin by the soft in the head majority element at our Senedd. Hard to find any member of the Labour or Plaid groups who would come out and criticise this type of unwanted intruder. Maybe there are a few Tories who might be willing to condemn giving this turd and his accomplices contracts funded by public money. Given that he would fit in well with the Taliban he might like to buzz of over to Afghanistan and try ripping them off.
Good work Jac. Will you forward your evidence to Gwent Police?
I’ll put something out on X.
Disgraceful. Someone’s head should roll for making the appointment of these fraudsters. The practices should be audited and if it is found they have made false claims, they must be charged. (Please note new email address)
I agree. But this is Wales, nobody’s ever held to account.
Thanks for the post Jac. Compelling evidence of the so-called health service falling apart in Wales.
“There must be no repeat of this débâcle.”
How many times have we heard this from government. Lessons must be learnt. This must never happen again.
A friend of mine visited his doctor’s surgery last week with a few medical issues. He was informed by the doctor that he could only deal with one problem in a 12 minute consultation. Further consultations would be required if he had more than one medical issue.
A better health care service is now provided in third world countries.
What I also found disturbing in this case was the reluctance of the Welsh media to identify those behind eHarley Street.
The reason for that is bleedin’ obvious. They are all Muslin Asians or dress up like them. Fact that they are looking suspiciously like an organised crime group is ignored by the media and the political hierarchy that dished out their contracts in the first place.
On the other matter Wynne’s pal is lucky he was seen regarding one issue. Last year I received a letter indicating that the GP wanted to see me regarding results of recent tests at local hospital. I rang to book in and was told to ring back next morning where I could join the lottery for appointments that day. I thought “fuck you” and never bothered just continuing my dialogue with a decent and fairly accessible team at the hospital. People with new issues must be livid getting that kind of rationing stance from local clinics.
Yes, I had noticed that all involved are Muslim. Even Allinson looks like a convert.
My sources tell me he is indeed a convert. He uses his English name for business yet is referred to as ‘Abdul Qadr’ or ‘AQ’ within their circle. Quite strange why he is not using his revert name in the public domain…
Perhaps to disguise the fact that all involved are Muslim.
This makes my blood boil. Those ‘other problems’ MUST be considered and prioritorised (maybe for future detailing at a future appointment) because they may all be connected and related to a systemic pathology.
A GP who doesn’t even allow the patient to speak of other concerns is not being a good medic. They should be skilled in seeing the whole picture, which cannot be done if something that maybe important is not even considered. Either practise good medicine or get out of the NHS. Do no harm.
What Wynne describes is the default profile of an NHS GP nowadays. Like so much of UK society the profession has been dumbed down and the consequences are already visible and tangible.