Before this Thursday, Stop Centene growing

People are more important than profits. Public ownership is preferable to privatisation, which is less accountable, less transparent and less caring.

The NHS has helped keep many members of my family alive for far longer than I would have expected and to ask them to pay a hefty price for medical treatments is not only morally wrong, it goes against the very idea Nye Bevan had for the NHS

I am appalled that we are opening up our own health service to American businesses when America has such a poor record of health care for those who cannot afford it. We should not be going down the same route as them.

This is just plain wrong. Morally bankrupt. The NHS is, or should be, for people – every person – and NOT for profit. The greed for profit for profit's sake has no place in a just and honourable healthcare system.

It is fundamentally immoral to see health provision as a means of making money. It adversely impacts decisions on what care will be provided. The majority of people in this country are willing to pay extra taxes to fund the NHS. Healthcare provision should be funded by the people for the people. Our taxes should not be used to buy in private companies who divert the money into profit making activities that please only their shareholders. I wonder how many Centene owned GP services have held back on health provision for expensive treatments?

Another disgraceful example of the Government trying to sell what is not theirs to give away - our NHS is OURS, not the Government's. Our Grandparent's (and Parents) generation knew what it was like when receiving medical care depended on how rich you were, and none of them wished for that inequality to return...

Universal Health Care is the one thing that we should always be grateful for and proud of as a nation...

Our NHS achieved an amazing feat when the chips were down in this pandemic - despite the Government!

GPs were individual businesses, working for the NHS. Instead of moving to corporations taking over our primary care, we should be looking at taking them into the NHS, so that profit and property owning are not part of the deal for doctors in general practice. I want local doctors running local services, and working together in networks to share good practice. Private contractors in the NHS are beyond accountability, hiding behind 'commercial confidentiality' even though it is my money that is paying them!

The NHS is a publicly owned service which has always done a fantastic job, particularly over the last 18 months. Please do not allow any more privatisation of the NHS as it MUST NOT become an organisation for making profit for shareholders.

Please do not renew Centene's contract. Here in York A & E is reported to be in danger of privatisation and a Centene renewal would set an unhelpful precedent.

I paid into the NHS for 55 years. It's not up for sale to Centene profiteers. We value our system and after this pandemic a sell out would be an insult to all those people on the front line who risked their lives to care for the sick. I can't even begin to understand why North West London Primary Care Commissioning Committee is even thinking about it.

Really concerned about the privatisation of GP surgeries. Health services should be for the public good and not be driven by profit motives

The NHS was a ground breaking creation that has been the envy of the rest of the world since its creation. It is the only democrat and fair way to provide for a nations health, as so with education. Privatising the health service is not about improving health care, it is about profiting from the ill health of the people. Private health care is discriminatory, very inefficient and hugely expensive and a disastrous money grubbing mess in the USA.

The social fabric of the UK is being eroded bit by bit and undermined, most of it in the misguided idea that privatising something is an improvement and as we have already seen with the rail sell off and bus deregulation to name but two, ends up being a disaster. Providing undeserved wealth to a few while providing an expensive and inadequate service to the people.

The selling off of the NHS, if allowed, will do more damage to this country than all the other sell offs put together.

The NHS was established to provide a government funded service to all residents based on clinical need and not on ability to pay. People contribute via national insurance.

Dear committee, We have seen the destruction of peoples lives and lack of access to healthcare caused by the US style healthcare system and do not want to even get close to such a situation. The NHS is envied the world over, one true sign of a Social Democracy is that everyone has the right to expect the same health outcomes, and to extend this contract takes us down a road which heads away from that ideal. I ask you to remember that first and foremost, a countries government is tasked with enacting policy that is good for the people, and the NHS remaining under the auspices of British rule satisfies that, and selling it off does not.

Our NHS is the envy of the world, it was designed to provide health care to all not to a privileged few who can afford. We pay for this through our NI contributions. I spent two weeks in hospital recently and the area’s that have been privatised are of a poor standard The Nurses Doctors were amazing even though they were over worked. The NHS should not be for Profit.

In August 2020 a US federal court found that health insurer Centene Corporation and affiliates had deliberately underpaid certain frontline healthcare providers since 2014. This incident illustrates what can happen if a a profit element is introduced into NHS service provision by contracting with a private healthcare provider

The NHS belongs to us and we pay for it. We the people value our health care more than the government seems to and this underhand demonstration of how little they care for our wellbeing is appalling and unacceptable. Beven said that the NHS will only survive if the people want it to survive, and here we are, wanting it to survive. The GPs are self employed now, we know, but we do not need or want such a dreadful profit- orientated American company

as part of medical expertise. The Tories will rue the day if this goes ahead.

There should be no place for making profits in health care, or indeed,any public service. Please do not renew Centene’s contract.

The NHS is for people not for profit .

Health not profit

Keep OUR NHS publicly funded and publicly run.

NOT for the extraction of profit.

I believe strongly that health services should not be run for profit. The services should be run to benefit the health of individuals and communities based on their need, not based on how profitable it is to care (or not!) for them.

The National Health Service is a not for profit service funded by the taxpayer and not given to the private sector to plunder.If this continues there will be limited doctors appointments,limited medicines,limited attendence hours etc.The USA model is clearly broken and not fit for public use and the public of GB do not want it here.We were promised that the HHS was sacrosant and would stay in the public arena ,not privatised by stealth thus the Tory government lied to the british public.Shame on those who facilitate this

These companies are taking significant amounts of money out of the GP practices that they control. There is therefore less available for the provision of healthcare. We are fortunate that our practice is excellent and is run by the healthcare professionals who work for it, however I understand that an adjacent practice which is company run provides a much lower standard of care and puts intolerable pressure on its employees.

The National Health Service should never be privatised. Centene is a particular dangerous interloper. They have let people down in the USA. They will surely do the same here by putting profit before patients.

The American health system, rather than being the best in the Western world with all that “competition” and the huge price of even the smallest procedure, yet it turns out it is one of the worst in the West. Even though the NHS has been having resources drained from it over the past decade, it still performs better than the American one. However, we have gone way down the list in comparison to other European countries. Very sad.

Health care is NOT for sale. The NHS is NOT for sale - it belongs to the people of the United Kingdom. PLEASE consider how this can cause people distress. If someone in the UK needs urgent medical attention and treatment they get it. In the USA it might mean having to get a loan, sell your house or business. PLEASE be a trail blazer - health care not profit.

This contract should not be renewed. The NHS belongs to all of us, we pay for it through our taxes as did our parents. The American healthcare system has nothing to recommend it as being what we want in this country. The NHS is a service and should not be profit making for any company, the clue is in the name....National Health SERVICE.

NHS abbreviation for National Health Service for the nation not to make money!!!!!

The NHS has saved my life on numerous occasions. GP practices should NOT be sold off to greedy insurance companies such as Centene. Healthcare needs to be provided at the point of delivery, doctors and nurses ought to be held in the highest esteem and paid properly so they can deliver care in the way that they know best. If profit is the criterion this cannot happen.

PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW CENTENE TO TAKE OVER OUR GP PRACTICES!!!

Boris said leaving the EU would give us back control over our way of doing things, if you sell off our NHS we will lose control over the most fantastic organisation for good in this Country. At this very moment we are having to pay for treatment that should be free because The Tories have run down the NHS over the last eleven years so they can sell it off. They will say, we cant afford it any longer without private investors. Recently my wife and I have paid £60 each to have our ears unblocked. This will be our future once private companies take over the NHS, pay or go without treatment.

Politics is an expression of will ~ you really want to back a solution. The solution you decide with wisdom & judgement, whatever the tight spot you're in won't involve US Co Centene. Think hard about it & ask your conscience. So much of the NHS is in private hands already. Experience tells us not to make policies which generate profits privately & hand risk to the public.

The NHS was set up so that health care is available to all in need not for proof. Handing over health care to a private company will only favour the wealthy and share holders. Health is not a commodity. Retain our NHS as a public body free to all.

The creation of the NHS is just about the only decent and worthwhile thing that this country has achieved in the last one hundred years. It must not be privatised. It must be kept in public hands. Letting profit be the governing principle of an organisation is what has led us to the brink of extinction. The cult of infinite growth in a world of finite resources must be exposed for the damage it does. The health of the public is a public matter, not a private one. The USA has quite probably the worst and most unequal, exploitative health care systems in the world. It is not an example to be emulated.Keep American corporations away from the NHS.

The NHS is an amazing institution open to all in the country when they need it. It should be kept fully publically owned and under no circumstances privatised and ran to make a profit.

The NHS belongs to the people of the United Kingdom.It was founded in 1948 for the specific purpose of providing quality healthcare for the people and to be funded by the people. It was never intended to make a 'profit' and certainly not to make a profit for private individuals/private corporations. What is happening here with this Centene thing is nothing short of a betrayal to the founding principal of the NHS and to the people of the United Kingdom. Profit before people? Absolutely shameful.

The NHS was created as a non profit organisation, to try to improve the health and well-being of British citizens. There should be NO profit motive involved when a patient visits their GP or needs medical help of any kind. Allowing Centene to own surgeries is opening a door to exploiting sick people. In USA Centene has already been fined for malpracice, so as a company regardless of the private/public debate, it should not be trusted with any healthcare!!

The NHS is not owned by any private profiteers .it belongs to the people Of ENGLAND . I urge you to stop this blatant selling off of our National treasure

When I first read about this I actually didn’t believe it, and thought it was yet more ‘fake news’. How can this be possible? It’s the thin end of the wedge, and should be stopped at all costs

HEALTH BEFORE WEALTH! Especially the greedy private sector. And even more especially the greedy American private sector.

Private organizations such as Centene getting involved in the NHS risks losing the public sector not-for-profit motives of the NHS and the protection of the UK public’s health. Centene are trying to make money for their shareholders and management – does that mean they are greedy? Whether they are or not, much if not most of the public does not want the NHS to be privatized.

The NHS belongs to us and no parliamentary majority gives government the right to sell it off to businesses to make profits from. We have seen the damage to services that this can cause from the state of our dental care (nearly all the dentists offering NHS care are companies, most of which offer terrible care and ever-rotating dentists). The whole point of GPs is that they know you and are therefore in a good position to get to the bottom of our health issues. The government has no right to ruin our NHS any further than the last few governments have done. The only way they are selling it to people is by withholding adequate funding from the NHS so that people value it less and less. Bringing in profit-making concerns will further eat away at what the NHS can do. We need a law that will stop governments selling off our essential assets.

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.

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

I have worked in Child Health in many countries, particularly low-income countries, but it was when I worked in one of the richest cities in the USA that I was frequently struck by serious circumstances where the family had no insurance and just could not pay the fees. Many doctors didn't charge but Practice Managers and Hospitals did. This was absolutely terrifying for many who often sought medical help far too late.

Centene is one of the companies who eagerly profit from private health care which is what they have introduced into the GP practices they own in the UK. Their shareholders are ones who can afford private medicine, which we all know is often not the best medicine. Renewing Centene's contract will send a message to people living in NW London - "We want your money not your good health" and will encourage more expansion throughout the UK.

The NHS is a valued organisation that needs to remain in public hands. One has only to look at the billions wasted on an ineffective track and trace scheme run by private company SERCO. Private definitely does not give best value except perhaps to shareholders.

The NHS belongs to all people. lets keep it that way.

its part of our history, & we're proud of this. Resist any changes.

The NHS is a not-for -profit organisation funded by the population of this country via taxation, e. g National Insurance contributions etc. to look after the health of the nation, and to ensure that free medical treatment is available when required to all. It is NOT for an American associated company to buy up piecemeal in order to fill the pockets of their shareholders. Centene need to return to America for their business, and if so genuinely interested in an American National Health service, (which to my knowledge is near non existing, after being started by President Obama and then being thrown out by his succesor) they can buy into it there! The NHS CAN be publicly funded again IF the population looked beyond the end of their noses and voted in a government that did not make PROFIT their god.

Please don't don't allow our precious NHS to fall into the hands of for profit private providers. We will end up

like the USA, where millions of their citizens don't have access to medical care. Patient needs will be denied

as these company's see only financial profit as their goal and like many other private insurers will do everything they can to avoid paying claims. JUST SAY NO,NO,NO,NO and NO again

The NHS has been created and is being run with taxpayers money, the tax I'm paying every month. The Government hasn't got the right to sell the NHS to a private company without my consent. In my opinion this is illegal and we should all make sure the current elected politicians don't get away with it. It has taken decades to build the NHS, it belongs to the people and it works. Take back control from politicians who don't want the best for the people but the best for their personal bankaccounts! The NHS belongs to us!