Before this Thursday, Stop Centene growing

Private providers put shareholders first not the people they are supposed to give a service to. The history of privatisation of GP practices speaks for itself - closures because they are not 'financially viable'. That should be message enough to the decision-makers - this is the UK not USA and we don't want their brand of health care. Please make sure you do the right thing and not give our money away to those whose primary interest is profit.

Private company Circle took over my local hospital (Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon). After a few years, Circle pulled out stating that the hospital "was not commercially viable"! Our NHS is far too essential a service to be left to the whims of the free market and EVERY part of it needs to be taken out of private hands completely.

US companies work for profit and treat their patients disgracefully, squeezing every last penny out of even the most needy. We were promised the NHS was not for sale, so let's keep the US out of our medicine provision altogether. We'll regret it if we don't.

The NHS belongs to and is paid for by the British Public. It belongs to them and them only.

Wish you every success with this really important campaign.

Having worked as a GP all my life I respect and enjoy the benefits of the National Health Service. There is no need for privatisation of any part of it so long as it is properly funded and a free health service is an essential part of the British ethos. Letting any privatisation into a state sector will be the thin end of the wedge for privatising the whole lot, which will mean a health service for the well off, and insured, BUT poor health and poor prospects of improvement of health for a large minority of our population. I have witnessed myself how private health care, as in the USA ,is divisive and discriminatory. We do not want that in our democracy.

Martin Spiers, M.B. Ch/B/

Even the Daily Mail have described Centene in very disparaging terms, solely out to maximise profits

Dear Commissioning Committee

I am writing to request that you do not renew the GP contract with Centene. NHS resources should be used to deliver the best quality healthcare without having to consider private shareholders' interests. I and countless others have paid National Insurance contributions to ensure a top quality public health service and not to put money into the hands of greedy international corporations.

Thank you.

David Chisholm

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene making a profit from our health service! The NHS should be publicly run and publicly accountable to the people who use it - not making profits for shareholders.

The NHS is a national institution and should never be privatised. It is paid for belongs to the British people

Private companies have no place in public health. The shareholders have more say about our care than we do as individuals which is inherently wrong. No to the renewal.

A company such as Centene should have no role in the NHS.

Healthcare is everyone’s right. It should be for people not for profit. Please keep our NHS safe.

The clue is in the name - National Health Service. It is NOT for profit, NOT to enrich shareholders, NOT to be faceless and unaccountable.

It IS about people and communities and well-being and trust.

Centrene is NOT about the patient. It is NOT about the best interests of our national health. Stay away!

Private companies have no place in the NHS which is funded through taxation to ensure that health services are available to all. This decision in London is important to all of us across the country because it opens the door to these companies. I have never experienced better health care (or any other service)because private providers were involved. Please make a stand for all of us and do not renew this contract.

Please do not give any contract to Centene to take over any GP practices. The NHS is publicly funded and administered and must remain so for the benefit of the whole population and so that funds are not diverted to profit making private health companies.

For years we've been warned about American healthcare companies, starting with Michael Moore's 2007 film, 'Sicko'. Why should we put up with having these companies imposed on us? Private healthcare has no place in the NHS, unless you want to be responsible for more sickness and death.

There should be no role for a private, profit-making company supplying the most fundamental GP services in a publicly-funded NATIONAL Health Service. As a member of the tax-paying and National Insurance-paying public I seriously object to the concept of indirectly contributing to a company whose motive is making a profit for itself and its shareholders out of OUR public health system. Please don't renew Centene's contract.

The best thing about this country is the NHS, for people not profit. It's priority is health are rather than making money and that's how it should stay. It has saved my life and those of various family members numerous times, care that we could not have afforded had we been in a system like the US

It is not right that companies should make a profit from those unfortunate in having ill health. No one should benefit from other's misfortune. Grace not greed.

The NHS is funded from the public purse, that is the taxes paid by everyone. Why should profits be skimmed off by greedy American firms instead of being re invested into the NHS. It is totally wrong, wrong, wrong.

Centene's business model is to buy up practices and then close the one's that are not profitable thus leaving patients in those areas without access to a medical surgery that is within a reasonable travelling distance.

Proof of this has been demonstrated in the USA, as such I fail to understand how this gov.uk can even contemplate having them run any part of our NHS, and as a warning to this gov.uk people will remember come election time and how far off are they?.

This government is the worst ever, they are destroying our country, just looking after the well off! They need to go!

I pay taxes for the public good. I do not expect my taxes to be siphoned off by private companies for private profit. The services they offer can and should be provided by publicly-owned organistaions operating for the public good.

The NHS should remain in the public sector, and should not be privatised by the back door, or, indeed, by the front door. The contract in question appears to be the thin end of this wedge.

The National Health is for the people who pay their national insurance into funding it, NOT for private companies who want to make a profit from it. It must remain free at source for all British people at the time they need medical help. Private companies are only interested in financial gains which in turn lead to people not being able to afford to stay healthy. We have an NHS which is the envy of the world & we must preserve this.

I feel compelled to add my name and comment regarding greedy multi-nationals such as Centene from making a grab for our NHS services and running these services for profit:

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene making a profit off our national health service.

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene closing our GP surgeries and cutting vital support staff making the NHS even more venerable to current and future pandemics.

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene prioritising profit over our health, this MUST NEVER happen.

It is quite obvious, Centene are trying to sink their teeth into our NHS, expanding their reach by the year.

North West London Primary Care Commissioning Committee must do everything to end this dangerous grab of NHS services from happening because if you allow this, Centene and others will be given a green-light to decimate further my NHS.

Centene seems to have become a much too-powerful player in our publicly funded healthcare system. I appreciate that most or all GPs are private 'contractors', but they should be locally based individuals or groups, working for the health of the local community, not the wallets of investors and shareholders. The corporate take-over of so many aspects of our lives is a sad and dangerous development, and local primary healthcare is a much too precious service to go the same way. It needs careful 'handlers' who are in it for the right reasons!

The general public want and need all parts of the NHS to be in public hands. Private companies do not have the best interests of the general public at heart. Their main priority is profit and share holders. This is not good for your health!

Health care shouldn't be governed by profit. It was our NHS staff who worked diligently and beyond all duty to support those during the pandemic. Once you introduce private companies it diminishes the service offered because instead of being based on the health care needs of patients it is all about making money. We don't want an American style health service here in the UK which over time will reduce the level of service offered and discriminate against those whose needs are greatest. Alternatively it will operate an inferior service with taxpayers' money as easy profit. Pay for the service direct. Cut out the middle men - what do they contribute nothing?

It is disgusting to provide healthcare as a 'business'. Decisions affecting people's health ought not to be made for commercial reasons. It is immoral.

No-one should make profit from another person's ill health. The NHS saved my life by detecting via a mammogram early breast cancer. I will fight to keep it publicly owned because everyone will need it at some time.

OUR NHS was created for the people of this country. It's not an old sofa that can be sold on the whim of a greedy Conservative government to Americans who only want to profit from misery and ill health. Hands off OUR nhs!!!!

We want to safeguard the spirit of the NHS not just the letter. The NHS means nothing if it is free at the point of delivery but it delivers only that which will make a profit for its providers. We want to end the creeping (galloping!) privatisation and aim for a true service called the NHS.

The health of the nation should not be a matter for private profit.

Putting profit into the health system will inevitably lead to un-necessary suffering, pain, & death.

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene making a profit off our health service.

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene closing our GPs.

NO to greedy multi-nationals like Centene prioritising profit over our health.

As I have told Boris Johnson onj several occasions Centene operat in the UK using the name of Operose Health.

The company were £12.9million in debt aT THE END OF 2018 BUT i DIDN'T GET ANY RES[PONSE FROM HIM OR mATT hANCOCK OR Any other member of the Conservative Party.

I knew in July of last year what this was leading to but they didn't take any notice.

So please do not renew the cdontract for CVentene on thursday I beg of you.

Please do not renew Centene’s contract. There is no place in the NHS for profit making companies and organisations

Any privatisation of our Health Service is a betrayal of the spirit in which the NHS was set up.

The introduction of commercial elements into health care is the beginning of a very steep downward slope.

This is flagrant privatisation of the NHS. It is a slap in the face to all health care workers that pulled us through 2 giant waves of covid. It is a complete lie from this government who have repeatedly said the NHS would not be privatised. Does the Prime Minister and health secretary not understand the meaning of the word Privatisation?

Private Companies cannot operate essential public services any better or more efficiently than, if those services remain publicly owned, in public ownership investments can all go to the provision of better services, with out the need to make a large profit or guarantee big dividends to shareholders.

The clue for the reason that the vaccination roll out has been so successful lies in the word 'National', which implies a structure and ethos operating for the wider good and in national ownership and not the short term profit driven motives of a foreign corporation

The NHS was set up to help those who could not afford healthcare to have an excellent nursing and doctor support to get well. It was not devised so that in years to come, greedy corporations and drug companies could make huge profits at the expense of the sick and needy. The present world seems to condone the stealing of public services. It will not end well.

Our NHS, of which GP surgeries are an integral part, is not a privatised service which is why it is so fair and why it is admired and envied throughout the world. It is wrong to change it, or any part of it, to a profit making system. So wrong. And we all want this stopped, practically everyone in this country wants this stopped. We pay taxes that fund it, so we own it, and we want it stopped. So stop it.