"Assura Medical, majority controlled by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, has links with 50% or more of the board members at three of the 52 first-wave GP pathfinders. ... Findings by TBIJ, a not-for-profit organisation based at City University, London, show one in seven board members of first-wave consortia has a link to a private company, defined as an association registered by PCTs, a financial link recorded in Companies House records, employment by a company or employment by a GP practice in partnership with a company."