Before this Thursday, Stop Centene growing

Renewing Centene's contract will ultimately cost lives, as this corporation closes down GP surgeries that are "not profitable" for them, leaving thousands of people without GPs, and therefore without access to routine checkups, therapy, operations, etc, as all these things have to go through a GP, first. This contract must end, NOW.

It is morally obscene in principle yo generate profit from people's health problems and runs contrary to the ideal of the NHS as a national public service that was set up to be funded through taxation and to provide health care free at the point of use based on clinical need. So much damage has already been done to the NHS by past Labour and Tory governments by introducing the internal market, creating Trusts to act as autonomous business units and contracting out essential services to the private sector.

DO NOT RENEW CENTENE'S CONTRACT, THERE WAS NEVER A PROPER CONSULTATION AND EVERYTHING WAS DONE UNDER THE COVER OF COVID, SHAME ON EVERYONE INVOLVED. THE NHS IS UNIQUE AND CRUCIAL AND SOMETHING THE UK SHOULD NEVER SELL, IT IS NOT FOR SALE. IT HAS SAVED MY LIFE, AND THE LIVES OF FRIENDS AND FAMILIES, EVERYONE IN UK HAS BENEFITED FROM IT

This is the thin edge of the wedge, We don't need private enterprise getting involved in our National Health Service Once this happens the needs of people are put on the back burner and profit is the motivation.

How can introducing private companies,whose primary objective requires them to make profits to provide their shareholders dividends into the running of the NHS be good for the future of it? Experience shows and logic dictates that the profits private companies require can only be acheive by syphoning funds which would otherwise be spent on the operational needs of the service, or ny reducing running costs resulting in innefficencies and cutting corners.

The NHS should be publicly owned and run. Health care is and should be a human right and not based on whether a person can pay. Health care is for people, not profit. PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT!

Selling care to Centene is corruption pure and simple; dont move to hell-health systems like USA and Asia

The public were assured that the NHS was safe from privatisation by this government. It is totally shocking that our GP Practices are in the process of being sold to a profit-making AMERICAN firm, CENTENE. This needs to be stopped before it becomes the norm by stealth - this has not been publicly announced by the government.

My late wife died in misery pain and despair, having been utterly failed by the current fragmented healthcare system another aspect of which is it allows private enterprise to profit at the expense of sick people by buyng up sections of it such as GP practices. Once the "money men" get their hands on an enterprise it leads to increased costs or reduced services or both.

When the NHS was set up it was to enable access by all to a common healthcare system. It is not right therefore that bits of the NHS are being sold-off to companies whose only interest is in profit. We must ensure that the National Health Service remains national and not another US organisation. If some people want a private healthcare system, it should not be at the expense of the many who still want to enjoy and benefit from OUR NHS. Let those who want private healthcare fund it themselves

Last year's disasters with PPE contracts and the Test and Trace fiasco provide stark evidence of what happens when the profit motive is put above the public good. Privatisation costs money and lives and it's the taxpayers who will suffer the costs. Please don't allow this.

Please do not allow Centene, or other similar companies, to come in to make a profit from providing general practice.

They will not improve provision of primary health care as their focus is to make money for their share holders.

The Government has to look at other ways to resolve the funding issues - not handing over to private companies.

Profit motive is totally inappropriate for clinical decision making. Our NHS is a jewel of our nation and should not be for sale.

Health care is a human activity; it is fundamental to our survival and wellbeing - and as such, it should be above and beyond politics... AND IT IS CERTAINLY NOT, AND NEVER WILL BE, A 'BUSINESS'!!

The Covid pandemic fiasco in this country showed how important it is to have proper well run publicly funded local health services. The UK Government failed to support the NHS at a critical time for whole country. The shameful world beating UK covid death toll, due to bungled political decisions but to the effects of years of inadequate funding for the NHS, social care & local government is evidence of this. We need good primary care services as an essential part of the hole NHS & Social care. We do not need to sell off large chunks of it to private American companies driven by dubious commercial ethics of profit in a country with even worse health & social inequalities than the UK. Please stop the proposal to give away what our vital publicly owned national assets.

The NHS is a not for profit organisation. Centene is all about profit. To grant Centene the contract on a GP practice is wrong as it is another step in the direction of privatising healthcare in the Uk.

Now that NHS England have undertaken to release patient medical records to 'third parties' it is critically important that ethical standards should be strictly maintained in the practical application of that data.

On past performance, Centene/Operose do not qualify - and there is every sign that central Government are reluctant to ensure that adequate safeguards are put in place.

You are now, therefore, the 'front line' of defence against encroaching 'privatisation for profit'. Please deploy your forces vigorously!

Best wishes,

Jim Gibb

It would be a disaster to allow further privatisation of any sector of our NHS and GPs are its cornerstones, giving us continuity of care at a local level - not for nothing are they often known as family doctors. It's bad enough to find practices merging, receptionists being replaced by call centre systems, but we can protest and try to change that through patient participation groups and Healthwatch. Big corporations will disregard that, greedy for profit even at the expense of patient health and wellbeing. These are not products to be marketised, but essential rights for which we pay out of our taxes.

Stop CENTENE and all the rest of them. Save our NHS.

We don’t need outside managers and profit-takers in the NHS

Our NHS should not be privatised. Our GP surgeries should not be run for profit. Please stop Centene from taking over our surgeries. Please do not forget that the NHS stands for a National Health Service designed to take care of the health of all British people.

This is supposed to be a National Health SERVICE - not a commercial company making profits for shareholders. Any country's greatest asset is its people; elected representatives are there to look after the people's health first and foremost.

The NHS is the single most pride-worthy institution we have in the UK. An organisation run by the people for the people,to ensure fair,equitable and quality treatment for all, it must never be allowed to be carved up with bits handed out to private entities with an eye only on private profit. Once this starts it will be the thin end of the wedged and we will wake up one morning and realise,too late,we have a health care system that is unrecognizable. This is not and should never be an organization in which any part of it is run for private profit.

I strongly support this campaign to prevent our GPs being bought up by American companies: So far it has not reached Devon, where I live - probably because as a mainly rural area, with an ageing population, there is less profit to be made. But North West London will be the thin edge of the wedge: unfortunately the move towards primary care networks is likely to facilitate block take overs: It is common knowledge that the American system fails a sizeable chunk of the population and has much higher admin costs than the NHS.

My best friend who now lives in Kent has had her practice taken over by Centene and struggles now to get the correct medication as ordered by her London Hospital. Centene want her to have cheaper (incorrect) versions.

I am horrified at the undermining of our health service by the under publicised privatisation of GP’ surgeries - there is virtually no coverage of what is happening in the news media. The NHS should never be exploited for profit..

The policy of privatising parts of the NHS is wrong, as the whole principle of its set up was to provide care for the people by the people. We neither want nor need private companies coming in.

Private companies have to extract profit to operate so will always drain resources away from the delivery of services. There will always be an incentive for private companies to find more an more ways to increase the amount they can extract - by employing less expensive (and qualified) staff, by cutting the numbers of staff and by finding reasons to only give people access to cheaper services or withhold services altogether. None of these is in the interests of patients or in the quality of health services. Privatisation will always undermine health services. For this reason I do not want Centene taking control of any more GP practices.

I second the above comments regarding Centene's unsuitability in having any involvement in owning GP practices. I have written to my MP (Cons, Sir Mike Penning) about this along with many other constituents in this area (Hemel Hempstead), and he passed the letter on to Jo Churchill MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Primary Care and Health Promotion.

He sought to reassue us that as Centene is the owner of Operose Health's holding companies, it will not have any direct invovement in running the GP practices in question.This may be so, but given the track record of US private healthcare companies with respect to fraud and negligence, as well as the deeply flawed nature of the whole US healthcare model, I cannot see how Cenetene having a financial stake in any part of the NHS can be justified.

General elections have never asked the people if the people want the NHS privatised.

Let's have a referendum in the UK on whether the people want the NHS to be fully renationalised with a simple Yes or No choice.

On behalf of Sheffield Save our NHS we urge the North West London CCG and ALL CCG's in the country NOT to renew contracts to Centene / Operose and NOT to award any future contracts to Centene / Operose and similar shareholder private companies

Protect the NHS from those that seek to make a profit from healthcare. It's a human right and the US system makes people pay thousands for minor treatments and finds pre-existing conditions to deny health care when the procedures are costly. People lose their homes paying medical bills. The NHS is one of the greatest achievements of this country - hands off.

American profit making companies do not care about the health and wellbeing of British people.Why sell our health services to them then?Please stop this madness,our health is not for sale.It is our right and should be protected by publicly owned british run health services.We are the best in the world,let's keep it that way.

The NHS is funded by every individual in the UK and only those paying for the NHS should have a say in how it is funded. It must not be sold off to the highest bidder. I have had experience of the US system and it is set up to take as much money from those who can afford it and neglect those who cannot. We have been assured by all political parties the NHS would NOT be privatised and must stop any organisation creeping in by the back door!

There should be a public vote as to whether the NHS should be handed over to these American sharks .We were assured by Boris Johnson that more government money was to be put into the NHS not that it would be handing out contracts to greedy American companies who put profit before people. The ITV programme”In Cold Blood” shouldered shown again at a prime viewing time,not very late at night as before. We all need the NHS. Send the sharks home.

The NHS, when it was properly funded and organised, was well-renowned around the world and envied. The American system is despised for its waste and drive for profits before health. In what sane world would you want the former to be replaced with the latter! This private company has already been found wanting and should never have been allowed accessto our health system

Please save nhs GPs. With NHS Everyone can access no matter how poor. Once things are privatised they become more interested in profit not health or wellbeing. We dont want discrimination against the poorer people like in usa.

THE NHS IS NOT FOR SALE. IT IS A BRITISH INSTITUTION PAID FOR BY OUR NATIONAL INSURANCE. LEAVE THE NHS TO THE UK - NOT FOR PROFIT IT IS NOT FOR SALE

the NHS was started so that we who are UK citizens could have a free National Health Service . Tax payers fund it. there is only 1 reason why this present right wing gov have involved Centene , an american compnay, to involve itself and that is to profit financially . We need to stop this NOW quickly

Another step along a profitisation road. The NHS belongs to the people of this country and NOT to the government, we are in effect it's shareholders and MUST be consulted before and Private Deals are considered. We all know that Privatisation just hasn't worked for the benefit of the public and this will be no different. The USA has an appalling record of Health care, especially for those in most need or at the lower span of income. We MUWST NOT adopt any Private Healthcare system in the UK. Peoples well being is NOT FOR SALE and NEVER should be.

It's called the NHS, the National Health SERVICE. It IS a public good and should not privatised so that shareholders, who may not be British and therefore have not made a contribution to it, can make a profit. Equally, without a specific political mandate to privatise it, the government does not have the authority to sell it, and the health service is currently the property of the citizens of this country. (Apologies, this message isn't meant to sound nationalistic in tone - just stating the blessed obvious)

When I first read about the Government selling off doctor's surgeries to private companies, I didn't believe it. How can they possibly carry this out when the National Health Service was started and has been successfully delivered to us all since then, free at the point of need. We are all contributing to it one way or another. It is essential that the politicians listen to members of the public instead of lining their coffers. They should be ashamed of themselves.

My husband and I are so annoyed that the NHS is being taken over by rich business companies that has no interest in the poor of this country. It is our NHS and should stay that way.

NO sale of NHS for private profit. NO sale of NHS at all.

Leave our NHS alone, it is not for profit, it belongs to us, we the people of Great Britain. Get privatisation out of our NHS. Any foreign country/organisation should not be making profit out of our National Health Service. Boris Johnson promised our beloved NHS would not be ‘for sale’ for any outside company to make profit from our taxes. Centene we don’t want or need you.

Our family and everyone in this country have paid into the National Health Service all our lives. It has served us well all our lives and has proved its' worth during the pandemic. Without it, it would be a very different story.

It was as you know, set up by our NYE in 1948 so we do not want it to be privatised now or at any time in the future.

So please listen to everyone who has their say in this matter, they deserve to be heard about something so important.

As many others have said already, OUR NHS was set up as a Socialist policy, and became law, in 1948 with the help of Aneurin Bevan and the rest of the Labour Government of that time, and I, like many other people in this country, am NOT prepared to allow this despicable current administration to dismantle any more of it!! Why did I say "more"? Because they have already started to do just that, not just recently, but for some time now, by allowing private companies, from the U.S. in particular, to take over the running of GP practices, for example! If it continues, we will end up with a system like that of the U.S.A, where everyone will be forced to pay massive Health Insurance Premiums, for a Private Healthcare system, that will not only be very expensive, but also vastly inferior. This will also be a massive INSULT to all the wonderful staff that work, or have worked in the past, for our NHS, usually, and particularly under so much pressure during the Pandemic, for long hours, and in most cases low pay and conditions!! THESE GREEDY CHARLATANS, known as the Tory Party, are only interested in making as much money as they can for themselves, and, more importantly, for their Party's donors and their Big Business pals, and they MUST BE PREVENTED FROM DESTROYING OUR WONDERFUL NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE AT ALL COSTS, and I for one am prepared to MARCH and PROTEST and PETITION, for as long as it takes to achieve that aim!!!

Privatisation fragments health-care. Integrated health care is not possible with it. Please STOP IT!!

Please stop NW London Commissioning Committee from this appalling takeover by Centene. Stop this underhand government from stealthily selling off the NHS. The NHS belongs to us, the people of Great Britain. I’m ashamed it has come to this.