Show MPs what safe test and trace looks like

Stop giving public money to serco. Give it to our NHS. Who do a fantastic job

The present system has been an utter shambles, disgrace to humanity and definitely not working. Support this before anymore damage/deaths are recorded

Privateers exist to earn profit.. it’s utterly immoral to profit from the public sector, especially health .. End it NOW

We should finish with private companies do any type of work were it concerns public money you only have to look at the prisons and railways.

I've just received my result of over 60s cancer screening today. Thankfully, it was negative and at no cost at point of treatment to me. Thank you, NHS. This would not be possible under privatised health care.

When will the government learn that private companies can't deliver these services!

Stop wasting money on these useless companies give it to people who care for the community

Private companies are not to help anyone or anything, they are there to make money, and how they get it, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s “legal”.

It is obvious to me that for this operation to be carried out within the private sector is fundamentally wrong and the experience to date has borne this out. To involve something as essential as this, for the security of many lives, with any kind of commercial aspiration is reckless and frighteningly amoral.

It is essential for us to be able to trust the NHS and for the government to be trusted by the public to deliver an NHS than can be trusted.

Put testing along with track and trace back in the safe hands of OUR NHS and take back from SERCO as it’s not fit for purpose.

Please stop giving OUR money to YOUR mates.....

I returned to the UK, after living 6 years in the United States and having to use their failed health care system, in order to benefit from the excellent NHS. Nevertheless, cuts and various privatisation measures need to be reversed so that health care returns to being a fully funded public good, and less of a profit-making (or losing) source for the private sector.

Hands off OUR NHS

I am still waiting for people to wake up and start actually supporting the NHS at the ballot box.

It is of urgent importance that the private firms of Serco and others are given the boot and the money transferred to a truly

NHS track and trace by people who know what the6 are doing. Urgent Urgent. Urgent

Private companies should not be handed a rake-off from our money, 100% of taxpayers' should be going to fund the NHS which can be held publicly accountable for any failings.

I cannot imagine why so many people were taken in by the Tories stealing public services and passing them over to private companies? It has destroyed much of the efficiency and levels of provision built up since the last war, and many people now have to travel vast distances to a hospital. The Tories haven't finished their hideous programme yet. Calling schools Academy 'Trusts' and those hospitals which haven't been closed, Healthcare 'Trusts' is about setting them up with Chief Executives and a plethora of managers in readiness for full privatisation. Nurses no longer have accommodation near their hospital and with so many staff shortages, nurses are booked at extra expense from privately run 'agencies'! With America waiting in the wings to pounce and run a 'for profit' health business, the UK needs to wake up to what is happening. Clapping on the doorstep is yet another ploy to cover up inadequacies and shortfalls in provision. Like many areas, my locality continues to build more houses to cope with the growing population, but the local hospital has fewer beds now than in the 1980's! Routine procedures are often put on hold , but treatment can be almost immediate if you are prepared to pay the private healthcare hospitals! This means that professional staff, doctors and surgeons are helping the private sector whilst avoiding serving non paying patients.

Test and trace should be through the expert NHS not through a private mess called NHS test and trace. A toast to our NHS and hope that all privatisation is stopped starting with the test and trace. Serco messed up probation which had to be taken back in house. Do the Tories not learn. What makes them think that they'll do any better on this when all evidence is to the contrary.

We require an audit of spending on PPE and Track and Trace and any other private sector envolvement in providing services for the National Health Service or National Health England because we do not trust our Government to have tendered for the best use of Public money.

Keep in public ownership

Stop giving out contracts to mates and relatives, without putting the contracts out to tender. The public aren’t stupid. We know what you are up to and we’ve heard your lies. Too many people will die so do something about it.

The sum of £100b, that Boris has proposed to give to multiple private comapanies for track and trace services, is TWO THIRDS of the WHOLE NHS ANNUAL BUDGET for 2020. Futher, while our (real!) NHS and our Local Public Health sector are experts in tracing and isolating infected individuals, the private companies that the Tories seem in thrall of, have no known expertise or track record in this. So Boris: give that £100b to the REAL track and trace pioneers in our REAL, Public Health NHS. Please don't play poker with the lives of the public.

You are wasting public money, and time! It MUST be given to our wonderful NHS, who know what they’re doing!

STOP PAYING SERCO.

WASTE OF MONEY.FUND NHS INSTEAD.

The government should not privately contract out profitable parts of the NHS to defund the public aminity paid for by the Britidh tax payers through misdirected National insurance ! The government are defrauding the country & it should stop now by cancelling contracts & bringing them back in house at the deviled NHS that should be totally renstionalised !

stop wasting public money.

Don’t waste any more money on these organisations which rip the public purse off.

Same old TORIES giving contracts to companies like serco who will cream off the top then give it to others . Why are people surprised?

THERE IS A WELL ESTABLISHED PUBLIC SERVICE IN TRACKING AND TRACING WHICH IS RENOWNED FOR A FAST, EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE OPERATION - IT IS ROUTINE FOR EVERY CLAP CLINIC IN THE LAND. THEY KNOW HOW - FOR GOD'S SAKE USE THEM!

Recent experience of trying to get the test which I needed to have an operation: sitting in a queue for hours to get through to someone who might be find me a test appointment. This chaos is exactly what you don't need a couple of days before an operation. Fortunately I got through via the General Surgery department at the local hospital to get an immediate appointment at a small testing unit at the local hospital. Just in time. What we have now doesn't work. What we need is a locally based system run by people who know the area and the people.

The NHS local services are best suited to carry out this Test & Trace as a localised, monitored personal service as they do with any health service.....no other UK test of a person’s health condition (other than pregnancy testing) is carried out without the 'control and gateway' advice and expertise of a health clinician /professional there to monitor if its really needed and clarify basis for any test as well as the likely actions in result of a test?? It's simple: Sack SERCO use our NHS.

I am concerned about public money being sent directly to private companies who have no health and welfare experience and who continue to subcontract. All with no scrutiny by parliament. Covid is an excuse to support corrupt funding practices and must be stopped. The NHS is being deliberately marginalised. Private companies must NOT carry an NHS logo!

A.V.Bale

local authorities and public health experts must surely be given trust and the resources to do the test, track trace AND SUPPORT...the phenomenal response to the Salisbury poisonings unequivocally proved how vital it is to have more Tracy Daszkiewiczs and less outsourced Hardings.

Centralised administration using omnibus suppliers is more suited to centralised dictatorships than the democratic local authorities which work for their residents in this country.

I think we are heading for an autocratic right

stop calling it NHS track and trace - it has nothing to do with NHS its conducted very badly by private companies who have no experience. We have had for years a legal system of local public health departments, who are skilled in track and trace for all sorts of notifiable diseases really really stupid not to use and expand whats already available. the private system is costing vast amounts of money and causing the death of many people by sheer incompetance.

Track and trace via public ownership and organisations only

track and trace should be funded only via the established NHS and direct funding to them on our behalf and not to some private companies not answerable to the UK public.

The Track and Trace "gravy train" should be stopped immediately. The NHS should be in charge.

This debacle proves two things, that the Tories are totally wasteful of our money and thus our lives as they put profit before need,as they always have. plus they are giving that money to those who have donated to their coffers, or where in their government. They have no interest in us the ordinary people, just their elite circle. We sorely need a viable alternative way of living not just existing

Stop giving money to private companies for test & trace

We have seen how Serco works in the Public Services: they are a disgrace, incompetent and useless. The sooner the government gets rid of it, the better. All private contractors are all in the red. The figures were published a few years ago. They're incapable of running their own companies and stay solvent. How on earth do they manage to obtain the juicy contracts they do get?

This ideologically driven government is unbelievably delinquent. For them everything has to be run by a private company. It has been shown time and again that privately run operations are not as efficient as publicly run. In three WHO trials the NHS has come out better that the US systems it has been put up against. More patients dealt with, better outcomes and not as expensive.Just out of interest do Serco give

funds to the Tory party.

You cannot trust the Conservatives, everything the touch becomes a disaster. A political party led by dogma.

This concerns our health, played for with our money, keep it in our hands.

It's time to call a halt to the increasing privatisation of NHS services. Public money should not be used to make big profits for private companies.