25 May 2021
How to take action: Please leave a comment below this letter, with YOUR reason for not wanting Centene's contract to be renewed. We'll make sure to pass it on to the decision-making committee before Thursday's meeting.
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Dear North West London Primary Care Commissioning Committee*,
* This is the committee which will make the decision on whether to renew one of Centene's contracts in North West London THIS Thursday, 3pm.
American healthcare giant Centene has recently taken over 49 GP practices.
Now, with a total of over 70 GP practices under Centene's control, it has become the largest single private primary care provider in England.
With North West London CCG's contract with Centene up for renewal this Thursday, we, as patients, family members, citizens and defenders of our publicly provided NHS, from all across the UK and beyond, call on you not to renew it.
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How to take action: Please leave a comment below this letter, with YOUR reason for not wanting Centene's contract to be renewed. We'll make sure to pass it on to the decision-making committee before Thursday's meeting.
Your NHS is so worth protecting. By stopping Centene in its tracks in this area, you will be part of helping to stop the privatisation of our NHS all across the UK! Please comment with your message now.
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Mrs Elaine Hawking replied on Permalink
Having been both a Community Midwife and a District Nurse I know how central out GP Practices are to our National Health Services.
It is vital to keep our Doctors and or Community Medical Support Staff attached and controlled by the LOCAL GP Practices.
Heather Dearlove replied on Permalink
I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. In modern medicine it is now recognised as the most painful condition anyone with a chronic condition can suffer from. Can and does lead to amputation.y only option is to attend a Pain Management Programme. That should have taken place well BEFORE the pandemic but due to cuts caused by decades of austerity to by the Tories this is likely not to happen at all. Also deaf and require a hearing test. That isn't going to happen anytime soon. Our local hospital shuts by 10pm. The nearest is 25 mike's away. So if someone has a heart attack around here they are likely DOA. What about the 5 million waiting for cancer treatment and children with leukemia etc . Wouldn't surprise me if this current cock up with reopening the country on 21 June has been deliberate to act as a smoke screen to deflect attention from all the crap being pushed through in Parliament. This government is the most incompetent, corrupt and evil ever witnessed in my lifetime. Time this bunch of jaboni's were OUT
Heather Dearlove replied on Permalink
The NHS is a state enterprise and not up for sale. That was promised in Tory manifestos. GP practices are central and critical to this. Should be legal to flog it to the USA as is trying to push through selling of our medical records by June 23rd. My own gp practice has had little information on this latest cunning plan. Health is a basic human right and allowing the sale of price medical information should surely be illegal as well
Irshed Mahmood replied on Permalink
The NHS has been funded by the sweat and blood of the people, for the people and the people need a patient and outcome led NHS, not profit led.
Hands off our property.
Maya replied on Permalink
Healthcare should never be about profit. My generation was given the legacy of amazing, free healthcare which is something that I want to be able to pass on to my children. We have seen countless times that when organisations within the public sector become privatised, services are degraded and it is us as individuals who pay the price. The NHS is about the people and for the people, not greed and profit.
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