Before this Thursday, Stop Centene growing

After all the effort put in by NHS staff over the pandemic, I feel it is unacceptable to involve profit focused companies in healthcare. We need public health care in order to solve the many health issues such as obesity that made Covid even worse. We do not need more privatisation where profits are put before people and health.

The NHS is funded by the people of the UK for the people in the UK.

The UK is not the USA. The NHS is not for sale! Stop it now!

The creeping privatisation of the NHS needs to stop now. The NHS is funded by the people for the people. Outside services are not required or desired. Leave the NHS alone!

The NHS always has been and always should be free at the point of contact. Where other services have been privatised there have been massive drops in the quality of service provided and also huge delays in provision. If GP surgeries follow this pattern, increased delays and reduced services can only impact on the health of the nation. The NHS should remain in the public domain and not for profit.

Multi-nationals have profit as their first priority. This is simply not the way a health service should be run.

I am a veterinary surgeon and I see how corporate takeover of veterinary practices has lowered clinical standards and restricted practitioners in the drugs they can prescribe, the procedures they can carry out and the diagnostic services they can use. Not only have standards been lowered but vets are getting less career satisfaction and less commitment to the job. I have lived in America and I know at first hand the miserable standards and high costs over there. Please don't let this happen in the UK.

Before 1948 many people did not get the medical treatment they needed because they couldn't afford to pay for it. People suffered and died because they didn't have the money to pay for a doctor. If a doctor was called to a poor person not only did they have to worry of their illness they also had the worry of how to pay the doctor for their treatment. In a lot of cases people died because they couldn't afford to pay for treatment, we must not return to those days. We pay our national insurance to help support the NHS. The NHS is for the people not for profit. Keep private companies out of the NHS. The NHS is there to provide healthcare for the people not profit for the greedy private sector.

The NHS belongs to the people and without it we would suffer indescribable hardship. My own children would have been without a father many years before they were because we certainly could not have afforded to pay the level of insurance required to keep treatment going. I fear a time when insurance assessors and not clinicians decide what can and cannot be done. No insurance company is there to lose money and will stop treatment once a patient costs more to treat than they can contribute. The whole idea of privatising healthcare appals me.

I'm aware that general practices have always been private businesses selling their services to the NHS and while this model isn't perfect there's generally a reasonable balance between the interests of the practice stakeholders, the body commissioning the services and the public/patients for whom they exist. Throwing a large business (and its overheads, which will far outweigh any "economies of scale") that is legally bound to deliver best value for its shareholders into the mix cannot be a recipe for sustainable service improvements or reduced costs. I urge the Commissioning Group to seek service providers that can more clearly be held to the account for the quality of GP services.

NHS is a public service, run for the people, NOT FOR PROFIT!

Private commercial interests have no place in the NHS. Kick out the alien parasite, Centene.

The pandemic has shown just how lucky we in this country are to have the NHS and how important it is that we fight to keep it as is, run from public money, by people who work for its goals and not for those of private companies and available equally to the people of this country. It is one of the greatest achievements of the country and the envy of many countries around the world, please do your bit to help stop it being privatised by the back door. Thank you.

If there is one sure mark of a decent society, it is one in which healthcare is available free to all. Profit has no place in our NHS - please do not renew the Centene Contract

People's health care and well-being should not be dependent on companies which are in turn dependent on profits and their fiduciary duty. The NHS should be run by local people publicly funded for the best outcomes for individual patients. I have seen the results of privatisation in social care (I am a social worker) and I feel very strongly that this results in poor care as profits force down wages of the most important people - the people involved in actual hands on care.

boris johnson promised to protect our nhs !it seems that he only wants to do that by making it look profitable to carry on selling different parts off to the highest bidder!shame on him......we the public we the tax payers now or before own it its not up for grabs from his buddies......we all want proper drs surgeries where we can go locally and not have to wait 2weeks for a consultation over the phone......i guess he or carry is not diagnosed in a phone conversation why is this not being covered by the national press................i wonder ..!!!!!!

Stop the back door privatisation of the NHS and GP surgeries, especially after this terrible year of pandemic. Our health service needs protection and investment not selling off to the highest bidders. Cherish the NHS.

We have experienced many failures of the private sector running public services and it would be an outrage to add NHS services to the list. Health services should be provided as a public service - the emphasis being on service first, not profit first! ‘Service first’ would not be Centene’s priority - it has shareholders and investors to satisfy first. Keep them away from our precious NHS. Shame on the Government for outsourcing NHS services in the first place.

The NHS is a strategic asset and a national treasure. I echo the sentiments above and say a resounding No to profiteering from the Citizenry’s or residents’ health and offshore outsourcing.

The N.H.S should not be be used to make an American company profit but to help people who pay for it in their taxes.

I want my family's health care to stay where it has always been, in the NHS in this country. I wouldn't trust an American company for all the tea in China.

We the British public have paid into the NHS through our national insurance contributions since the NHS was set up. Please do not throw this away, do not give it up, it has been tested and endured for the last 70+ years, why are you even contemplating allowing a private company into to delivery a General Practice service. I cannot see any advantages, only disadvantages, they are in it for profit, or to gain further access to other NHS services. Please do not go this.

The NHS is owned by the British Public and we want to keep it that way. .

I am writing to express my extreme concern and horror that anyone commissioning public services particularly our National Health Service provision could even consider 'outsourcing' any of it to any private corporate companies and especially USA owned and managed ones. There are so many reasons for stopping this and here are a few: The National Health Service as stated is a holistic, interdependent, complex, system of health care that has been developed over more than 7 decades, with excellent research, training, shared information and implementation of all aspects of health and social care that has made it the world's most successful, efficient and cost effective health service. This OUR NHS belongs to all of us from our grandparents, parents and us, paid and provided for by all of our tax and NI contributions and dedicated labour, it is NOT to be sold off as it doesn't belong to the Government or private providers it is the public's and it is the most important embodiment and cornerstone of our democracy. There is plenty of historic and recent evidence of what happen's to people,s health and life chances without a fully functioning health service and public health provision which depend on each other; it was known after WWI that the long term poor health of many of the soldiers was a vast contributor to excessive deaths and this experienced evidence and the general state of the public's health then, sparked the ideas that formed the implementation of the NHS. Ken Loache's film 'The Spirit of 1945' highlighted the punity of life and terror of sickness prior to the inception of the NHS. The current pandemic has exposed the weakness in societies that do not possess a competent National Health Service that is imperative as only a systemic integrated service can operate on so many diverse levels at the same time, able to respond to needs and amend practices and procedures to keep up with changes and ensure effective treatments by timely information exchange and research. Once any part of this integrated service is privatised it is already out of the cohesive loop and is unable and often unwilling to engage effectively, competitive practises and protectionism prevails, profits demand drops in standards and competencies as service costs are cut; the privatised service, in effect, is operating in it's own bubble mainly run and accountable to it's shareholders and has no democratically maintained oversight or input. Furthermore should these services proove too onerous or unprofitable to run, the operator, as has been shown in the past, just abandons it. This is no way to provide health services that are so depended upon by so many and particularly the most in need in society. There couldn't be a more obvious example of losing rather than 'Taking Back' Control of our services. The vast amounts of public money poured into private corporations for services and equipment during this current pandemic, by this Government, with little return or complete failure to deliver on the contracts has shown the lack of governance or control by the Government and it's commissioners. As usual once outsourced always outsourced, with the public and even their representatives left powerless to intervene, resulting in no provision and huge sums expended that we the public will have to find to pay back and suffer further service cuts; had this money been spent within the public service sector here it would have cost far less and there would have been a service; e.g. Test and Trace: UK spent £37 billion with Serco and others for a shoddy non functioning system-less service that failed, whilst Germany spent only 48 million Euros for a fully public operated successful service. A similar UK disaster with the inefficient laboratory Covid testing services again outsourced to incompetent corporations for eye-watering sums.Please, please think long and hard about the importance of the NHS in your hands and of all those people who depend on it, for now and in the future and don't be persuaded that the private sector, in this case: Centene, is best, because it is established that it definitely is not. We need to protect out NHS and public health as publicly run, funded and democratically managed in order to have public control and to secure it's sustainable and consistent future - we now know more than ever before, in recent times, how life-saving and important a holistic integrated NHS is, please let us all keep it this way and keep predatory private corporate business out like Cenetene. Thank you

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Profit making companies have no place in the NHS, especially for emergency services. Centene should not be involved in GP practices; why and for what end? I fear the Tories have an agenda to dismantle the NHS as envisaged by Aneurin Bevan in a thousand cuts to feed their ideology of privatising whatever they can. To Tories the very idea of the NHS is anathema.

Privatisation by the back door.

If we continue to allow this to happen I’m afraid the web of privatisation within the NHS will be irreversible.

This government has an obsession with privatisation. Private organisations are no more efficient than Public funded organisation as we have seen from the rail industry and the many private companies which have failed to produce what they have contracted to produce. Three overriding things which make private industry unfavourable when it comes to running national services 1. the government invariably removes some of the safe guards that the national organisation has in order to make the organisation viable or "juicier" for private industry 2. "profits" are funded by the tax payer and go to shareholders and are therefore funds which are denied to the running of the national organisation 3. the private owners become secretive, and use "confidentiality" and other strategies to avoid public scrutiny thereby distancing themselves from the public they serve. They are not public servants. This has already happened with private companies which have taken over previously public organisations.

I cannot possibly accept that there can be any benefit whatsoever to the people of Great Britain in Centene's proposal to interfere in the provision of health care in this country,. The NHS is supposed to be a "Free at the point of Delivery" service, not profit-making, having been designed by Tax Payers for the benefit the Tax Payers of the GB, and NOT to provide profits for greedy corporations and their investors, at Tax Payers expense. To offer this profiteering organisation would be abhorrent and an insult to the people of this country, and our government should be ashamed of itself for allowing -even encouraging!- such disgraceful practice.

One of the best things that we as a country have ever done in my lifetime is to act as a community should act, with care towards our fellows, and decide to all put into the common pot so that everyone could have medical care free at the point of delivery. Don't let private sector greed get in the way of this.

We need to protect our NHS for the sanity & love for all. Please don't privatise it!

I have paid taxes and national insurance all my working life to ensure that I and many like me would be looked after at all stages of our existence. I probably would have been born successfully without the NHS care in the 1950s.I do not wish to end my life unable to get proper care because I cannot afford private insurance.

The NHS is a cherished public institution run for the benefit of everyone, rich or poor. How on earth can it be right that private American healthcare providers are allowed to make money out of this vital institution that is paid for, and should be owned entirely by, the British people? This is nothing short of privatisation by stealth. The Government thinks that if this happens on a drip drip basis, the public won't notice until it is too late and we have lost our National Health SERVICE altogether. Health care is too important for organisations whose first and foremost priority is a balance sheet to be allowed any involvement. This must be stopped immediately, before the British people lose control of their NHS to foreign private investors.

Our NHS should be publicly owned and publicly accountable.....not surrendered to private profiteers.

No-one has the right to give it away. Please be vigilant and vocal in its defence.

Our NHS is precious, it belongs to us all and no government has the right to sell it off bit by bit to profit mongers.

Centene et al. you are not welcome here...take your dirty profiteering plans elsewhere.

We need to keep our precious NHS, It's there for everyone that needs treatment as a caring non profit service. It would be a tragedy if our NHS continues to be privatised. The NHS is the UK's biggest treasure, so let's keep it in safe hands.

My wife and i have worked all our lives and paid our tax and NI for our NHS, we are now retired we cannot afford to have an American insurance based healthcare system , which will deprive millions of even the basic health care. Stop the rampant privatisation,and lets push for a fully public funded NHS,

The NHS is for people not profit. It was set up to be for the people, funded by the Government (our taxes). Private companies only care about making money for their shareholders and they do this by cutting back on the care and services they should be providing. Evidence shows this time and time again which I have found out to my cost and the NHS should Not be put in the hands of Private Companies. 'Home Helps' are now 'Enablers' who just stand and watch you struggle to cope, people are triaged without even being seen and turn down for necessary operations to mention just a couple of the 'services' provided by a local Private Company

As a previous NHS worker, please keep our beloved system in public hands so it does not become a service only the privaledged can access. It was set up for the benefit of all. Please keep it accessible to all. It must stay in public hands!

British taxpayers own the NHS - it must NEVER be allowed to become the profit-making asset of remote shareholders motivated by greed.

The NHS - should be free at the point of access to those in need is the most precious thing we have in the UK. The majority of people access its services via their local GP. It is only those who are financially well off who can access private health care. Using an American multi-national company to provide GP services risks introducing the profit motive into an essential service on which we all depend and threatens the whole ethos of the NHS. During the General Election campaign we were told by the Tory Party that NHS privatisation was NOT on the agenda. They were not telling us the truth.

Our greatest national asset must never be run for profit.

Hands off our NHS. If the USA are so envious they should concentrate on starting and supporting the same

system at home. OUR NHS is not for sale or take over!!

As should have been pointed out to Thatcher in the '80s and all the other culprits since, our national assets DO NOT belong to whoever happens to be in power at any time, they are placed in trust with them for future generations - just a pity we've had no-one worthy of that trust for decades, but I hope to live long enough to see the day of reckoning come!

The NHS is not for sale! COVID's only shown us just how vital it really is, more than ever.

The health system must be based around wellbeing, not money.

Something for the people - NOT for the corporations.

Something helpful - NOT greedy.

Please stop this uncaring greedt American healthcare firm taking over our GP surgeries. The NHS is owned by the public keep it that way.NHS is not for sale.

Privatisation is definitely counter productive when the situation is considering between the extra cost to the patients and profits to share holders. It doesn't work in the best interests of the patients who are out of work with no income to pay for a privatised industry. It did not work satisfactory before the NHS was formed to give everybody equal access to health care.

The NHS should be a UK-based, publicly-owned, publicly-run, NOT-FOR-PROFIT, and should NOT be included in any trade-deal with any country, I do NOT want any foreign company (where profit before patient-care is rife) to be able to have an influence over MY healthcare.

That's the benefit of "Socialist-based healthcare" because only 2 (two) people are truly involved - me and my GP (who will refer me on to specialists if required, etc...) unlike the USA where any number of "gate-keepers" do all they can the PREVENT provision of patient-care in favour of profit.

The NHS needs support from everyone NOT Privatisation. Government intervention/meddling has been destroying the ethos of a public system for the good of all that is funded by NI contributions/taxes. We do NOT want a US style of private medical care that people can not afford.

It's about equality and justice, not party politics. Everyone deserves equal healthcare, paid for by everyone's taxes, and delivered to all who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. Contracting primary health services to profit making corporations is the start of a slippery slope. Please keep the NHS public.