Get involved on July 17th to stop the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill

Let’s do it!!!

The NHS is a public concern

Got to stick together on this ALL walks of life

Public health should not be for profit and no person should gain from someone else’s misfortune

This is an attempt at privatisation by stealth by this government.

Just say no and let's make sure they don't by an means necessary

This is our NHS not the Governments money cow.

We keep being told by them that the NHS is safe in their hands but that isn't true. They are selling and have sold parts of our NHS already and needs to be stopped NOW.

'Many surgeries in London hijacked!

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/37-nhs-gp-practices-have-been-sold-to-a-private-us-health-company-heres-what-it-means-3172193

And many others elsewhere - we need to stop the rot!

https://weownit.org.uk/blog/here-are-gp-practices-taken-over-us-health-insurance-giant-centene

Profit and shareholders should be nowhere near public health services

As soon as money is involved the poor and sick always lose out #protecttheNHS

This has been going on since the Health and social Care Act was passed in 2012. Branson actually sued the NHS for £8m for not awarding him the contract for Bath's GP surgeries. Profit first, patients last. Gained through causing delays and preventing full proper care because GP practices with owners like Branson make their 'profit through 'prevention of appropriate treatment. They use referrals to private company ' specialists first. They do not let their doctors to refer to hospital consultants until they have exhausted the commissioned private 'specialist advisor' referrals first. eg Musculo-skeletal specialists...(ie physios), non medically trained staff online and pharmaceutical advisors. These delaying tactics prevent full proper diagnosis, dealing only with 'bits'at a time. The problems get worse until they are really serious.

Referrals to NHS consultants would ensure there is a proper diagnosis with appropriate treatment set up with teams of medical staff in the hospital. No profit in that.

Centene is a perfect example of this in practice. Many of you may have been referred to their Health Centres without knowing it. That is why it has been sued across the US. CCG privatisation has been accelerating since they were given free rein to buy in NHS Services hidden behind NHS logos. Stealth from the start.

I am a campaigner and a witness in the Mansfield Inquiry. The New Health Bill replaces the NHS as we know it with Integrated Care Systems. It has been through Parliament already but not the Lords. A lot of opposition there. Integrated Care Systems sounds good if you think it is genuinely 'Integrated Care' of medical and social services... primary, hospital etc. It's not. Patients and their data are 'products' to be sold to the highest bidders. CEO Simon Stevens is ready to step down now as everything for this is in place now, ready to be implemented. 'Integrated Care' really means replacing our fully public NHS with an American insurance led health care model(Private). This then to be integrated with what's left of the NHS itself, to become what is commonly known in the US as "Medicare', Obama Care, Accountable Care....etc. Patients' viablility for treatment will be is assessed in terms of 'cost' and whether or not it is worth providing the care they need.

Keept the NHS for everyone

Absolutely disgraceful I said to my friends this was going to happen hands off its the people's NHS not the government's

We've just got to fight for what's ours!

The NHS is for all of us, ant not for profit for the private sector.

When will they learn the lessens from the past that privatising companies do not have the peoples best interests at heart. Only the share owners.

What is wrong with this world, ( greed) money is power and the criminals have, and it starts from the top so I don’t think anything can be done about it

To my horror last week I discovered that it is already partly privatised. I was discharged from hospital outpatients to a 'Community Ophthalmology Service called Operose Health. It is owned by 3 US Directors and one new UK woman who joined 31st March 21. It also buys up GP practices where a partner wishes to retire but the partners cannot afford to buy them out - they jump in... This is so wrong. The NHS belongs to the people. We have seen a prime example with Dental care. It now costs circa £12,000 for dental implants - Obscene...

Clem Attlee’s Labour government (1945-51) gave us the NHS. It was the greatest gift any government could give to the people. It has stuck in the craw of the Tories ever since. They do not want a ‘free’ Health Care Service with its fundamental ethos that all men are equal once they cross the threshold of an NHS hospital. That is anathema to the hyenas of the market place , everything has a price and all profits go to them and their draconian bed fellows. They forget, the upkeep of our beloved NHS is paid for by the people, by their taxes and National Insurance contributions . The people would willingly pay more to keep the NHS public and free from the claws of the Richard Branson’s of this world. It is time we all woke up to their insidious and loathsome intent. There are no pockets in shrouds. Remember the immortal words of William Shakespeare: We fatten calves for us, and we fatten us for worms. The hyenas of the market place, remember, remember, no one will shed a tear when your day of compt comes as it surely will.

I'm an historian, in my 70s, and involved in community politics. In 1918 political sincerity and idealism was at its highest with Homes Fit for Heroes proposed as marks of gratitude. (Not all politicians are out to make; many wish to serve and refuse to make. Lloyd George and the housing experts did believe in real social gratitude and responsibility. To understand the reality which men faced in 1919, study the Sanitary Inspector's Reports which always followed the Housing inspector's Reports at Rural/Urban District Councils. Much of the country those 'Heroes defended' was a diseased slum. The MoH in charge of all the first Housing Estates was actually the 'Ministry of Health'. By 1946 the country was in the same needy situation, this time with a private health service stretched to the limit. The same genune idealism and generosity to serve created the NHS. Atlee, Bevan joined Lloyrd George. Now we face those out to make (for themselves), not to re-create a tired fund-starved Health Service, so split during the Covid pandemic into LEA Care Homes starved of funds and protection, and hospitals overflowing when put to the test. Meanwhile, under Mrs Thatcher, council houses were privatised. I know superb 1927 council homes, 'garden estates' which now sell for £500,000, after a well known prime minister 'privatised them' Try raising local money now for 'social housing' (the phrase council housing has been damned out of existence. It was once like the NHS, our pride and joy. Now, local planners and conservationists deride and even attempt to degrade them with random 'infill' fly-approved proposals. Imagine this happening to local NHS surgery groups ?

We've had enough of greed, incompetence and corruption from this government. Saving the NHS must be at the top of everybody's list.

Don't allow NHS to go private.

Looks like good news??

Everyone of us benefits from the NHS even those rich idiots that prefer private care, I have seen patients being treated in a private hospital being transferred to the NHS because the private hospital can't deal with the condition. The NHS must not be privatised in any way.

I was a teenager at the start of the NHS. No longer were my poor parents obliged to pay whenever I or they needed a doctor. Such a new sense of security! Health services must always remain free and available at the point of need!

Fair earnings for those who provide its services!