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The NHS should be a non profit organisation...just look at the American system....their people are getting bills for half a million dollars for their COVID intensive care treatment!!!

Our NHS has been the envy of the world and should continue as such. Peoples are not disposable commodities and should be valued and cared for.

After all, the wealthy would be lost without the basic cleaning and domestic skills held by the working classes of society!

I was born in 1948 just when the NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE started. Prior to that advance My grandmother had lost a child because she couldn't pay for the doctor to attend the baby. In my life our National Health Service has been there for all my ailments and surgery, as a civilised country should be. Nye Bevan said that the National Health Service would exist as long as people fight for it, and the idea that this government keeps trying to extend privatization via the 'back door' is totally unacceptable. So I will keep fighting for the retention of Our National Health Service - not a cost but an essential part of our lives, paid for by us via our taxes.

The NHS was the greatest social advance in British society in the twentieth century. Its free care for all citizens must continue.

Keep all public health services local. No need to employ outside companies, keep it local.

Our NHS is the envy of the world and is a treasure that should not be fritted away, people count not profit. Here here! My husband was treated successfully for cancer and every step of the way seemed like a miracle, we felt so proud of our NHS.

I have commented on each question that I object to its wording, as each one is a leading (not neutral) question.

People’s health issues shouldn’t be an (entrepreneurial? businessman’s) opportunity to exploit. Ok if you’re an “I’m alright jack”, herd immunity, gambler or a millionaire. For healthcare the shared resources of national insurance works for everyone.

I pay taxes to help support the NHS not to provide dividends or profits to private companies or shareholders.

NHS is a treasure to be shared by everyone not a source of income for the greedy. It is already being privatised by the back door.People of my age remember days before NHS. We don't want to go back there.Do we really want a society where only the rich can have a chance of cancer cure or rehabilitation after stroke.

Health care should not be privatised in any way. It should be run by health professionals fir the benefit of patients

A for-profit health service is a contradiction in terms.

I've worked so many years for the NHS. It is the envey of the world. People are dying in countries like the USA because they can not afford to pay for health care because of the greedy insurance companies/privatisation only for the rich to benefit from. It was the same situation all those years ago, our people could not afford health care, which is why The NHS was born 5/7/1948 by the then Health Minister Aneurin Bevan. Which made excellent health care available for ALL the British Public of which WE the public have made contributions to maintain our NHS. God bless our NHS.

The people own the NHS and the gradual slide into a private Health Business is not shared by the public. There are already far to many companies making huge profits from contracts which have been given to companies who have links with those in government circles.

Public Service not Profit

NHS was developed to enable all members of society to have free health care. "From the Cradle to the Grave" was the moto. It is not there for Capitalist to line their own pockets from the health of the people. The NHS is a great institution I have worked for over 20 Years. I have seen how the government of the day have underhandedly decimated many areas of our NHS for their own ends. There should be a legal protection on the NHS to protect it.

The NHS is for the benefit of the people not for greedy private company's whose only concern is profit before the health of the eople

We do not need another " World Beating " fiasco Matt & Boris - please keep the NHS away from grabbing hands of friends and contacts - keep it patient focussed please if you really do care about our country - am speaking as a patient and a floating voter !

The present pandemic shows that the market cannot produce a response to save lives, and that only a Public Health Service, not for profit, funded by central taxation will provide for the health needs of a population. Britain’s health system must remain free at the point of care and that care should be delivered by a nationally public owned body funded through central taxation,and national insurance contributions by the people For the People and that ALL profits and contributions should be ploughed back into that publicly owned body to improve on and continue delivering quality health care and equipment. The service should be Staffed by professionals who are trained, monitored and publicly culpable for maintaining the high healthcare standards . Profits should never ever go into private shareholders pockets. Private companies need to make a profit, and when they don't they give up the contract and pass it back to the NHS to sort it out. Just the scandal of PFI contracts to build new hospitals by themselves will drain the NHS for years to come, as it is hospitals paying to have less beds, not the Treasury.

People don't realise how much of the NHS is private - eg. primary care is now totally private( GPs, pharmacists, optometrists, dentists.) We certainly don't want more of secondary care privatised.

To keep our NHS free at the point of entry, and prevent anyone with profit in mind from gaining access to management decisions would seem essential, now and always. Let’s now send the message to the very many exhausted and demoralised NHS staff that their interests are being put first. Before Covid 19 came along the staff were already down hearted and felt over worked and under appreciated, lacking regular inflation proof pay rises. BUT they have responded to this crisis and worked so hard, many becoming ill, and some dying.

Now send a message that will provide some hope. DONT SELL OUR NHS TO PRIVATE COMPANIES.

It cannot be better for patients to have money taken out of the NHS in order to line the pockets of third persons or corporations.

We should all pay more taxes from the lowest to the highest to preserve an NHS for the good of all, free at the point of need. I rather thought that for those of us whose Dads and Mums fought in the war, part of it was a contract between the people and the state for properly funded services, not for fat cats to make profits.

Do not go the way of the United States. Its health care is in chaos. A large proportion of the populace are in poor health because they cannot afford health insurance. No wonder that 300k people died of Covid, no support. I have stayed in the US and witnessed how many people suffer through little or no health care. If this government dismantles our NHS then they must be regarded as a tretarous bunch of eleitests that do not care for the people of this country.

Universal health provision is vital for a civilised society and to ensure everyone’s health and well being. If we all contribute, we all benefit. Health is too important to leave up to individual cost and health provision should not dis ruminate between rich and poor. We had a very good functioning health service and no one has the right to destroy this.

I was born the year the N H S started. It saved mine and my mothers life. You can not sell this off under any excuse. Our country should be so proud of what we have.

Since it's inception in 1948 the right-wing Tories have found the NHS totally abhorrent. Like any other INSURANCE SCHEME, we pay a annual fee to use the World's best care facility. WE the people own it. It has become so successful that greedy Tory supporting capitalists are rapidly "running it into the ground". When it is almost wrecked they will scavenge what's left for next to nothing then tart it up and sell it on to the highest bidder probably American... (ask any American what that will be like).

NHS within Britain is the best health care service in the world and is a treasure to us, the people. It should not be fritted away by current greedy corporations; people count not profit.

Anyone that thinks otherwise should go whistle.

Get Jeremy back and save the NHS.

The NHS must not be monetised. It’s inconceivable, and dangerous to even consider the alternative. It

The NHS must be protected and supported with absolute transparency, at all times by Government. NHS staff at all levels should have salaries reviewed; especially in light of the incredible work, dedication and commitment over the last 10 months.

The business of the NHS is to provide healthcare for all, not to makea profit from it. A healthy nation makes a prosperous nation.

The NHS has always been is the sights of the privatisation brigade who see it as a nice money making machine for them and their friends. The NHS must be kept as a provider that is publicly owned and publicly run. There should be no place for any further privatisation of NHS services.

This Govt has already damaged OUR health service beyond any limits that mr & mrs Public realise !!!!! It is only through the heroic loyalty of the NHS staff the standards are maintained .

This " reorganisation " is clearly yet another ploy on behalf of this Govt to put more money into the shareholders pockets, and take that away from the bedside . I nursed for 38 years , and saw first hand the gradual deterioration due to stretching funding .

The people of this country should be told what is actually happening , and then given the opportunity to stop it happening, whilst not in competition with Brexit, at the ballot box .

Healthcare should NEVER be organised as a profit making private organisation. Private enterprise by definition requires profit for it's shareholders. Healthcare must be open to all, and should be paid for by public money so there are no barriers to treatment for all. We should be extremely proud and caring of our National Health Service which is one of the best organisations in the world. It should be run on a non-for profit basis with budgets being made for research, not for profits to shareholders.

There should be an end to the cynical exploitation by government of the vocational dedication of NHS staff,they should be paid properly.

The organisation as a whole needs to be cleansed of the parasitic attentions of the privatisers.

It’s absolutely essential that we keep our NHS free at the point of need and provided on a not for profit and for our population and it should co tinge tonprovide free, excellent healthcare as one of the original slogans said

“from the cradle to the grave”.

Stop privatising the NHS

This pandemic has clearly demonstrated the value of an integrated, publicly owned and administered National Health Service. Where taxpayers money has been spent on private agencies or suppliers - who, in many cases, had no experience in this field - value for money has not been demonstrated and the service provided has not proven as effective as the NHS. Our national service belongs to the citizens of Britain and has demonstrated its value time and again in protecting and caring for our population. It is not there to provide a financial bonanza for opportunist private investors.

The NHS is not a means of making profits nor was it ever meant to be. It is a service intended to ensure the wellbeing of the nation not to generate profits for the few.

Our NHS is invaluable

The NHS needs consistent funding and public faith in the systems will be gradually eroded by this creeping privatisation

The NHS needs to remain free at point of contact and non for profit. The NHS also needs to be managed by people experienced in health care and not the likes of Branson and Serco who are not interested in providing safe and high quality service but are only interested in profit.

This is all down to greed and a Tory Government that does not agree with public ownership, only private. Therefore publicly owned businesses end up being sole off mainly to people who seem to think they know what they're doing but in fact don't.

The involvement of private sector organisations in the provision of our public health services will always mean that profit, rather than the needs of patients, will ultimately become the main driver and primary incentive to those service providers.

Clearly the cost of patient services does need to be managed and controlled. But when costs are directly linked to profit (rather than FLEXIBLE budgets) as is the case for the private sector organisations, patient needs will be what gets sacrificed.

What might help in the current situation is appropriate incentives, over and above salaries and wages, to NHS staff at all levels of the organisation, payment of which is linked to an acceptable range of targets, i.e. efficiency combined with patient satisfaction.

we need to go back to having all essential utilities in house not for profit. education nhs.transport and housing plus gas/electric

Wherever the profit-motive enters health suffers because greedy and uncaring people stand to make money. It's a dirty, underhand deed to attempt to privatise any part of the NHS, particularly after this government's mealy-mouthed promises to save it. Many (I am one) cannot afford private health care.

The Conservative Governments, both present and past have always had the intention of splitting up the NHS and handing out lucrative contracts to their wealthy backers companies, whilst leaving the mundane, non profit making, uneconomic parts of the work to the remaining, much reduced NHS. It is immoral that private health companies, cherry picking the lucrative parts of the NHS work, promptly move patients back into the NHS system when and if complications set in after or during these procedures. Thus leaving the NHS to carry out the expensive, non funded nursing back to health of patients that deteriorated whilst in private health care. If allowed to continue in this way the Conservative Governments will oversee the destruction of the NHS and leave Britain with an American health care type of service, when the well off will pay for their care and the poorer sections of society will be left with no adequate health care and condemned to suffering and premature death.

The privatisation of the NHS should be viewed as a criminal offence

Boris Johnson has no idea of what he is creating, And could be held responsible for the untimely death of millions.

I am a British expat currently living in America and I have a debilitating form of epilepsy

I have experienced first hand the privatised American health system and it is not about providing care to the nation in any way,

It is about money!

I recently had to go to A&E (or the ER) as I was bleeding internally, and before the hospital or doctor would see me I was forced to go to the billing department and pay a “Hospital charge” of $278 before they would see me. RIDICULOUS

If I were a frail old lady who was bleeding internally what could have happened then?

It makes you not trust your doctor, not trust the system of care, and more frighteningly it makes you think about cost of the services above your personal health and put off going to the doctor.

Personal health is not a business, it is a right as a human being and the advancement in medical care is to help us care for one another. Governments work for “us”/the public that pays their salaries and should be using our taxes to better ensure that we have a bright, healthy, educated and prosperous country.

A private, faceless and unaccountable “health” corporation is a dangerous and poisonous beast that kills millions every year and should be banished forever by every nation.