Stop the NHS White Paper that promises further privatisation

18 March 2021

Stop the NHS White Paper that promises further privatisation

It’s time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service. Profit has no place in our NHS. The Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry on the Department’s White Paper on Health and Social care closes on Tuesday 23rd. We think it's really crucial that thousands of people respond to this inquiry, saying why you think this White Paper should be withdrawn! Here's how to!

1) Go to the 'call for evidence' heremaking sure to say you're 'an individual'. They'll ask for a few details first before asking you to upload a file.

2) Upload this word file (odt version here), add personal thoughts or further information if you want, and then submit! You're done - thank you so much.

 

Want more information, or to personalise your response?

Here are some key reasons why the White Paper are bad news for OUR NHS in England (and for all the UK long-term)

In 2021, Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson have promised to bring in legislation that will hand over the current organisation of NHS regions to something called 'Integrated Care Systems'. These plans will lead to more of our health services being handed over to private companies. But how?

  • These new bodies will commission health services for an area, but they could have private companies sitting on their boards.  The bodies have been criticised for encouraging under treatment or rationing of services, as members of the board (which could include private companies) will get to keep any money they don't spend, and they will bring an area under tight financial controlsAll of this sounds familiar right? More private involvement, more contracts to private companies and less funding for the NHS to look after people so that they need other, private options.
  • It will open the door to more cronyism -  yet more contracts would be given to government pals like Serco, as we’ve seen in the pandemic, but without any competition - that’s what the government means by ‘reducing bureaucracy’. 
  • While key experts say there will be a reduction of 'accountability and democratic oversight' over our NHS, what's even more concrete and worrying for some is that there is discussion of 'sharing' the 'rewards' with private companies. This means money that could be spent on health services will be leaked as profits to private companies.  

Want to read more about this?

Keep Our NHS Public have been keeping on top of these developments for years. Here is their campaign page with some great briefings you can read. This is a great summary to start with from Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick (co-authors of the NHS Reinstatement Bill).

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Anonymous replied on Permalink

Our NHS has shown how good it is. Keep our NHS Public, keep it out of the hands of profiteers

Diane Wright replied on Permalink

It is imperative that this bill is withdrawn. It is far too damaging for our precious NHS. Profit must never be put before people. The NHS must be the sole provider of services. Services must not be sub-contracted to the private sector and private companies must not be allowed to sit on decision making bodies/boards that decide on how NHS money is spent.

Jenny Edwards replied on Permalink

Please, please, please no more privatisation by the back door, its wrong that tax payers money is being frittered away!

Evan replied on Permalink

It is shameful that the government is privatising the NHS by stealth in the hope that the public will not notice. We will I promise that !!!

Heather Dearlove replied on Permalink

Ever heard of CRPS? Doubt it. Or 6he new one called Sternocleidomastoid syndrome recently diagnosed by my osteopath. Got a letter this am from the only neurological hospital in the UK after a phone call last week. Immediate referral to their neurology deaprtment within the space of one week? Liverpool was hit hard by the pandemic but still our NHS can do this? And Boris wants to sell it off likely to the US. The NHS belongs to US. Typical tories. Privatisation. It stinks. Whose pockets are they lining, apart from their own?

Anonymous replied on Permalink

No one ever voted to privatise the NHS. It has been done by stealth and deceit. Back door policy restructuring the NHS. The Health and Social Care Act abolished the health secretary’s responsibility for Duty of Care under Jeremy Hunt. This was handed over to new Clinical Commissioning Groups ( CCGs) to buy in, ‘commission’ private companies hidden behind under NHS logos, thus deceiving the public since 2012. Diverting and preventing care. Frustrating patients, delaying or even preventing care. it’s using the pandemic to move at speed under cover bringing in more American companies, hoping for a aiming to create a profit making health system. Promoting private insurance to jump NHS queues, they have created through lack of funding which was diverted into the private companies away from the NHS itself. The NHS was told to make savings of £22bn. Interesting that the private, publicly funded ‘’Test and Trace’’ bill came to £22bn before lockdown.

Mary Emerson replied on Permalink

Don't sell off the health of this nation!

Margaret batt replied on Permalink

This must not be allowed to happen

Neil Procter replied on Permalink

Unfortunately the existence of the NHS as a public service is taken for granted, people don’t to realise that in the form of Boris Johnson’s Tory Government the wolf is at the door

Mohammad Ahmad Naz replied on Permalink

Tories want their old bad days where people died due to lack of medicines or Doctors' fee. it was Labour Party who established NHS. Hail to Labour Party.

Anonymous replied on Permalink

The NHS must not be privatised through the back door.

Helen Wrigley replied on Permalink

We cannot afford for this to happen.

Jill Green replied on Permalink

This MUST NOT go ahead. The public have no idea what this means, and they MUST BE INFORMED

Gill Wright replied on Permalink

It would be indefensible to sell off parts of our precious NHS. Our Health Service is admired throughout the world and deserves adequate funding from the public purse. Only the Tories would think to privatise. Make no mistake - this would be to line the pockets of already wealthy Tory friends and NOT to improve the quality of services provided. Private health facilities, if you remember, did nowhere NEAR as good a job helping Covid patients through this pandemic!!

Gus Coral replied on Permalink

We own it.

We should keep it.

Anonymous replied on Permalink

Please stop this handover of the NHS to po private companies. I have personal experience if how this works in other countries, and It Is Not Good for the health of a nation.

Kenneth replied on Permalink

NHS is PUBLIC and must STAY THAT WAY.

Steve Chown replied on Permalink

NHS created by Labour

Destroyed by the Tories?

Does the current government want this legacy

Christine Carter replied on Permalink

Our NHS should never be run by people who want to profit from our health care.

Hugh Edwards replied on Permalink

I will restrain myself & try not to use offensive language, but this government is hell bent on privatising everything. This meaning that their mates in business will ensure that they are suitably rewarded when their parliamentary days are over. I am 78 years old & have seen some corrupt & imbecilic governments but this gang of charlatans beats them all.

Henry Peacock replied on Permalink

The influence of private companies is changing the emphasis of health care from care for the patient to financial performance.

Catherine Lydon replied on Permalink

Our NHS never up for sale shame on you!

John Cowley replied on Permalink

The National Health Service is, and must remain, a public service. The proposed change must be withdrawn.

Susan Francis replied on Permalink

This is dangerous and must be stopped. We are proud of the NHS and it must remain ours.

Keith Simpson replied on Permalink

Every Tory MP should be bombarded with letters telling them to stop this happening

John David Seymour replied on Permalink

This Bill is a disgrace! Privatisation of the NHS MUST be stopped. This government is seeking to allow private companies and their shareholders to profit from peoples misfortune and illness, especially the less well -off, through no fault of their own. Now, reports are being seen of G.P practices being sold off to a possibly dodgy AMERICAN insurance company. Locally, a private company is trying to slide in to profit from A&E,s "urgent cases" This has got to stop NOW, and the government has to take on board the complete funding of the NHS. It was not voted into power for this shameful behaviour. If taxes need to rise to provide a fully -funded NHS, so be it!

Cathy Cowburn replied on Permalink

Any profit an NHS organisation makes is invested into further advances in health care and research. This is not the case with private companies. The money goes into their pockets

Jane Knight replied on Permalink

our taxes pay for the NHS and we should have a say in whether it is privitised

FRED STONES replied on Permalink

It has been there intentions all along people who voted for this government are to blame, Hancock is obsessed with privatisation, it must be stopped we have seen what private companies are like with the test and trace @ PPE.

Colin Fletcher replied on Permalink

Stop this Bill.

Michael Coleman replied on Permalink

Stop this white paper, the nhs must be public owned always

W Linham replied on Permalink

The National Health Service is world reknown as a publicly funded healthcare system, free at point of access. This is the fairest way to administer healthcare, making sure that all who need medical care can access it regardless of their personal finances or status. Privitatisation is neither "fair" nor efficient, as it focuses on the need to make profit for shareholders rather than provide a rounded accessible healthcare service for all.

The late Professor Stephen Hawking told the Royal Society of Medicine “International comparisons indicate that the most efficient way to provide good healthcare is for services to be publicly funded and publicly run.” He warned against taking the NHS “towards a US-style insurance system, run by... private companies”, and "the establishment of a two-tier service.” I agree. The NHS must not be privatised. It's "our" NHS.

Ann Scott replied on Permalink

The NHS was designed to look after the people of the UK not to line the pockets of private companies. I was born before the NHS and it took my parents 6 years to be able to afford a modest house as they had to pay for a nursing home because my mother had a difficult delivery. I had a problem when my son was born and it is thanks to the NHS who managed to deliver my son although it was traumatic, my mother had been in labour for days whereas my delivery was accomplished in 2 hours. I certainly object from foreign nation making a profit from our NHS and the government admit to chaos when the PM was in danger and was saved by our wonderful NHS. You should be ashamed of yourselves even considering this course of action.

Peter Blackmore replied on Permalink

Please stop this white paper bill it's too dangerous it needs to be withdrawn; immediate action required.

Anonymous replied on Permalink

Whilst I believe the right for people to set up businesses so creating jobs and taxes, I believe all necessary services like health and care, education, certain transport etc should be non profit making in all regards

Anonymous replied on Permalink

I have worked as an nhs nurse for 46 years.Colleagues whom I have known who have gone to work as nurses in the private sector are all wanting to return to the nhs.The nhs provides far better patient care, investment in training and governance of staff . We pay for the nhs through tax and national insurance.Health care is a basic human right not a vehicle for profit greedy private companies

Kevin Jones replied on Permalink

Stop this bill, profiteering on peoples illnesses is immoral and will lead to the exclusion of those who cannot afford to pay beyond what they already do.

Amy Stilwell replied on Permalink

We cannot go back to the way things were before the NHS, where if you couldn't pay to see a doctor you couldn't see one. Where if you couldn't pay for treatment you couldn't get any. We cannot go back to the time where people died because they were poor to pay for medical help. The NHS was created so that EVERYONE rich or poor could have the treatment and medical care they needed. We pay for the NHS through our National Insurance payments, this is so we can ALL access it when needed., it's not up for sale, it's a public service and should not be sold for profit. We don't want big profit making companies getting their hands on the NHS, we don't want these companies dumping surgeries and medical facilities because they aren't making big money for them and leaving thousands of people without the medical care they need.

Colin Laskey replied on Permalink

You LIED - you told us you'd protect the NHS.

Honour your promises and STOP this bill.

Yvonne Wilson replied on Permalink

Every attempt to try to secretly privatise the NHS should be stopped. Having the NHS has crucial in getting us through the pandemic and still plays an important role.

The Tories are good at saying the right words but there is no truth or sincerity in them.

Margaret Wadsley replied on Permalink

This privatisation is a complete betrayal of the British people's trust and all we stand for as a democracy! I have personal friends in the US who face bankrupcy from being diagnosed with cancer. We will face this soon, while private individuals profit from the misfortunes of others.

Gordon Lees replied on Permalink

If you truly value the NHS do the decent thing and stop this treachery. The wrath of our nation will be felt by you at elections now and in future

ANNE STUBBS replied on Permalink

NHS should not be sold off to anyone but especially not companies in the US

Paul Rechnitz replied on Permalink

Private companies have proved to be expensive and inadequate. They are a drain on the finances of the NHS at the expense of the care patients are supposed to receive.

The example of what has been happening during the pandemic shows that a properly reinstated publicly run NHS is essential. Nothing less!

allan bryan replied on Permalink

This Government have NO RIGHT to sell off what is not theirs. They must not get away with this. Stop them at all costs, even Lawful action if needed. NO, NO. NO.

Eluned Owen replied on Permalink

submitted as individual. Tweeted this link.

Audrey Mullender replied on Permalink

The NHS White Paper in its current form would lead to further privatisation which I strongly oppose, as does a large part of the public.

Kate Callaghan replied on Permalink

Hands off our NHS! We the public have paid National Insurance Contributions all of our working lives to help pay for the NHS!

narendra shah replied on Permalink

This White Paper will demolish the NHS

Edwin Rushworth replied on Permalink

Please stop this white paper.All NHS should be under public ownership.

Katharine Bensen replied on Permalink

These proposals could wreck our health service by prioritising private profit over the needs of our population. Cooperation and coordination can foster more effective services rather than a narrow focus on competition and short term gains.

Ernest Willock replied on Permalink

Stop this now Another way for ordinary people being made to suffer for profit

Julia Cox replied on Permalink

This proposal could jeopardise workers jobs and people’s lives.

Sue Cameron replied on Permalink

Betrayal by the Tories again. How dare they sell off "our NHS" it's the envy of the world as a health service. It's always selfish and greedy Tories that want to destroy things that are so so Good!

Michael Somers replied on Permalink

This white paper give to much control to outside organization over the National Health service finances which should be controlled by government.The white paper should be stopped

Wendy Scholes replied on Permalink

The NHS is the publics NHS and no-one else's it must, will and should stay that way.....NOW

Frederick Murphy replied on Permalink

Reinstate our nhs to a fully public service,thank you

Martin Mcilwee replied on Permalink

Thus change will leave unaccountable private companies in charge of vulnerable patients. The NHS has proven it is capable with the proper funding to manage care. The vaccination programme is an excellent example. The Serco private company's handling of track and trace is a perfect example of the unaccountable and lack of private care. Both are paid for from our tax. I know which one to trust that is THE NHS

.FUND IT NOW NO MORE PRIVATISATION.

Leslie Ranson replied on Permalink

Johnson stop lining your pockets and leave the NHS alone. Canel this white paper

Deirdre Batten replied on Permalink

This is the NHS that I have paid into for fifty years and it is not yours to sell. We do not want an American styled health service so keep it public for everyone!!! What about your promise when you wanted Brexit so do not renege on that%!!!

Derek Daisley replied on Permalink

This white paper MUST be stopped, 76% of the population do not want any more private corporations involved in Our beloved NHS.

Peter Martin Kauth replied on Permalink

Privatisation goes against all that the NHS is about. It is dangerous and must be withdrawn immediately.

Elaine Addison replied on Permalink

The ethos of the NHS is that it is free at the point of need - This is why it was conceived by Labour MP Aneurin Bevan, and the tories voted against it - now they want to sell it - not in my name.

Soo Frankum replied on Permalink

Stop selling off the precious resources of this country. The NHS took 72 years to build and so little time to destroy. Think about the future people of this country , instead of your friends pockets

Jill Coward replied on Permalink

This needs stopping now

Chris Taylor replied on Permalink

Stop the profit motive in healthcare, then you can have some trust that when you are ill and vulnerable, hopefully you are being given the best advice-look are what happened with oxycontin in America!!.

Teresa Herbert replied on Permalink

Please stop this white paper bill immediate action is required

Rory Thomas replied on Permalink

Privatisation of any part of the NHS without a mandare would be a betrayal of the british people & remembered come election time

Sandra Jaconelli replied on Permalink

This is the people’s nhs we worked all our lives and paid into the nhs it’s not this Tory government to sell this must be stopped ASAP these parasites are a bloody disgrace

Liz SIMSON replied on Permalink

I am sickened by the cronyism shown during the pandemic. It has cost the NHS dearly. For goodness sake stop this government making even more of the NHS an easy catch-penny for their fat cat friends and funders.

Jacqueline Tyler replied on Permalink

We need to keep the NHS as the national health service, not everyone has money to pay for private care, why can't they just leave it alone.

Teresa Herbert replied on Permalink

Stop this NOW, action required to cancel any American companies taking over our doctors surgeries

Eleanor Hitchman replied on Permalink

The NHS is there for the population. It is not there for profit.

JUNE WOODWARD replied on Permalink

I used to work in the NHS as a domestic now retired.its not for sale to anyone .say no to privatisation .

Michael Shaw replied on Permalink

The White Paper and it's contentsmust be stopped.

Mrs Maureen Curtis replied on Permalink

The Govt. has no right to sell OUR nhs! We pay for it with our taxes. It`s free for us but won`t be if the govt. sell it off.

David Haylett replied on Permalink

This white paper must be stopped. We need the NHS for everyone.

Anonymous replied on Permalink

I want a public health system that is public, without private involvement, and is for the people of this country. In addition, I don't want the health system to be sold off to shareholders who do not live in this country.

Simon Linsley replied on Permalink

The NHS has shown itself to be invaluable during the current pandemic - not that we did not know this before. These changes would result in a very different and far less effective health service and one that would be copying the US model one of the worst in the Western World, ineffective, expensive and set up more for the benefit/profits of so-called ‘health’ companies than the patients. We must say no.

Steve Smith replied on Permalink

No, no, no, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Not acceptable at all to the british publice and not needed

Joan E Wadge replied on Permalink

This white paper needs to be withdrawn immediatley.

David Fletcher replied on Permalink

We own it. We pay for it. I thought the Conservative party said they would not sell the NHS, so what’s this all about. It’s crooked just like selling the railways the gas and everything else they can make money from. They are a corrupt government. Do not stand by and let this happen.

Heidi Simon replied on Permalink

Do not mess with OUR NHS, withdraw the white paper straight away.

T Newcombe replied on Permalink

All services should be public because that is the meaning of public service.Not Privet to make profits for investors.

Jean Watson replied on Permalink

withdraw this white paper bill immediately

John replied on Permalink

Government privatisations and contracting services to the private sector have generally been an abject failure. This must not happen with our wonderful NHS.

Gary Syms replied on Permalink

A civilised society is judged by how civilised its more vulnerable members are treated with high qualities such as care, respect, compassion and empathy.

Mel Ackerman replied on Permalink

These plans to privatise the NHS by stealth, must be stopped!

The NHS is the very best thing about the UK and must be protected.

I will never vote for any party that undermines the NHS.

mike martin replied on Permalink

NO NO NO NEVER PRIVATISE THE NHS

pam jones replied on Permalink

No to privatization of the NHS, no to the white paper bill!

Beverley Ferron replied on Permalink

NO.. Leave Our NHS alone. We Do Not want it privatised with any American company.

I'm fed up fat cats getting rich on the back of hardworking people plus Our NHS I use to work within the NHS and have the most respect for those nurses.

Our government does not do enough for them but is quick to sell them off.

Boris leave the NHS alone hand it to the public.. Let's invest in it spend money on it. He finds money for bailouts for companies but not Our Amazing Health Service.

Francis Owen Mc... replied on Permalink

Not the smallest part of the NHS should ever be privatised. Any parts that have been privatised should be re-nationalised.

Joanne Molyneux replied on Permalink

This is not what our country wants. We love the NHS and must protect it.

Brian Fellows replied on Permalink

Stop Privitatisation of N H S.why should we give part of our N H S away and have to pay more to keep our Free service to businesses..we already have knowledge and experience of what VIRGIN has NOT Achieved as a so called PARTNER. Will someone please report what VIRGIN has done to improve Services and how they have treated NHS. Staff...

Desiree Tait replied on Permalink

The NHS must stay national and not be hived off to private companies with only a profit motive activating them

Jack Glanville replied on Permalink

The NHS was set up as an orgsnisation owned by the people NOT THE TORY Party. You have no right to privatise services, giving contracts to Tory cronys to make fat profits from people's ill health. The Tory philosophy that private sector is better and more efficient and effective than the public sector was never accepted by those who know better. THe COVID pandemic has exploded this myth of private best. Giving contracts to Tory ministers friends and allies is just what this bill intends to introduce on a wider scale. This bill puportedly to repeal the disasterous 2012 Act in fact will allow private companies to be given contracts rather than go through an expensive qnd flawed tenering process. MAke no mistake thios bill is merely the lastest Tory plot to destroy the NHS and bring in American style health insurance.

Karen Martin replied on Permalink

Our NHS is not for sale, look how badly private companies handed contracts performed, keep the NHS in public hands

JH replied on Permalink

The UK government is the greatest enemy of the UK people. The lives of those who care for our standards of health and well being are taken up with constant battling against the government's greed.

G replied on Permalink

The NHS belongs to the British people, if you give even one Private Contract to US based health for profit only companies the NHS is doomed! Do the British people who basically fund our NHS not get a say in this, I demand that this be made public and for us the British people to have a vote on this!

Ian Dicks replied on Permalink

Once private companies are introduced into the Health Service you change the entire dynamic of the system. The profit motive takes over, the only winners will be predator Corporations, and their shareholders. Services will be further reduced, and expensive fees will follow. Example the average cost of a simple Hospital birth in the US is $30,000 (£21,510). Of course very expensive Insurance will mitigate some of this cost. These costs will never be affordable for the working, and lower middle class families.

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