Looks like Tony isnt the only one who's using his ability to cock up the country to scam themselves a cushy job. Hewitt has been offered a job by Boots, I guess somewhere along the way they must have made a fortune out of the total and utter abortion she made of the NHS.
Bad Luck though Nick, she isnt going to be working a counter, nothing where she may have to encounter sick people of course.
I somehow, depressingly suspect I already know the asnwer to this but as these wastes of oxygen are getting lucrative jobs elsewhere are our hard earned incomes still going to be skimmed to give them their government pension?
Patricia Hewitt, who used to be the health secretary, has got herself a job at Boots the Chemist.
Not behind the counter of course, she will be an adviser to one of the biggest pharmacy led groups in the world, for about three weeks of the year.
It is easy to see why Boots would want advice from a politician who a spent a couple of years making decisions about the country's healthcare.
Under Ms Hewitt's guidance, companies like Boots were invited to bid to open GPs surgeries on their premises.
And it is not hard to see why having escaped the red box treadmill, former ministers are eager to top up their MPs' earnings, and keep a foothold in something other than their constituency business.
Blair's plum role
Ms Hewitt tells me her constituency is her first priority, but she will also have to juggle another new job, at Cinven which, she tells me, is one of the biggest corporate buy-out groups in the world.
NEW JOBS
Tony Blair: Adviser, JP Morgan
Patricia Hewitt: Adviser, Boots, Cinven
Lord Goldsmith: Law firm
John Reid: Celtic chairman
Stephen Ladyman: Adviser, Transport firm
Ian McCartney: Adviser, nuclear industry
Richard Caborn: Adviser, nuclear industry
They also happen just recently to have paid nearly £1.5bn to buy 25 hospitals from private healthcare group BUPA.
Ms Hewitt was always a keen advocate of the NHS using private sector facilities.
Ms Hewitt is not the only minister to have suddenly found themselves with time for a little extra work recently - Tony Blair's departure cleared out much of Labour's front bench.
Mr Blair, of course, has landed a plum appointment, advising US investment bank JP Morgan, for reportedly as much as $5m (£2.5m) a year. Not bad for a few days' work.
In fact, 11 ministers in total have taken up private sector jobs since June last year when the Blairites ceded control of Number 10.
Closer to home
Lord Goldsmith, the government's former top legal adviser, has gone back to the legal profession, taking a job with a major law firm.
John Reid, who had done more jobs than anyone else round the Cabinet table, won out, being offered his dream job, becoming chairman of Celtic football club, the team he has supported for decades.
Neither of those jobs have attracted much fuss, as they are pretty far removed from the appointees' former Cabinet briefs.
But what about those appointments, like Ms Hewitt's, that might seem a little closer to home - such as Dr Stephen Ladyman, a former transport minister, who has taken up a job advising a transport company?
Or former ministers Ian McCartney and Richard Caborn, who have both taken up lucrative posts advising the nuclear industry - just as the government gives the green light for a new generation of nuclear stations?
Well, an obscure Whitehall organisation exists precisely to prevent any potential conflicts of interest.
Lobbying ban
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments was set up in 1975 to advise prime ministers on whether former ministers, and former public servants, diplomats and the like, should be allowed to take up certain jobs.
What started out as a relatively informal group who may have had a quiet word or two in the PM's ear is now a formal Westminster committee that has expanded, partly as a result of a big increase in the traffic between the private and the public sector.
The committee makes decisions about each case on its merits, but the general rules are quite clear.
Cabinet ministers are expected to wait at least three months after leaving their post before taking up their new job.
And they are often told, as in Ms Hewitt's case, that they have to avoid certain activities for a longer period.
She will not be allowed to lobby the government directly for a year after she stepped down.
Suspicion
But what counts as lobbying? A conversation that happens by chance in the tearoom in the House of Commons?
Without a clear definition, it is almost impossible to police that rule completely.
Former ministers are obliged to consult the committee before taking a new job.
And the appointments all now appear online, so the public can track what former ministers and other MPs are up to.
But the rules, there to counter suspicion, will not stop the talk whenever an ex-minister walks out of government into a well paid job in the private sector.
