Stop the NHS White Paper that promises further privatisation

OurNHS is not for sale to the USA Big Pharma and insurance companies

Stop this disgraceful white paper bill now!

The British public do NOT want our precious NHS to be privatised.

Everyone knows the faults of the US system.

NO to this bill.

The NHS is for the sole benefit of the people .No private company should ever be allowed access to it.Private companies are run for profit and to make money for their shareholders.

Foreign companies ,especially American companies,should be banned.The NHS belongs to and is paid for by the British people.

Please have a proper conversation with the British public before introducing any further change and DO NOT ALLOW US health companies or consultants near our NHS. We do have competent people here, we do not need guidance from the USA!

Keep private companies out of the NHS.

If this pandemic has shown us anything, it's that we need a healthcare service that is available to all, a virus doesn't care if you're rich or poor. How many Americans have gone bankrupt in this crisis because they got sick? What sort of society just leaves their poor to die, and how will history judge those that let it happen? No one should be allowed to make profits over healthcare.

The National Health Service is there for the common good and not for Profit. Privatisation is not in the Public interest

We need to stop this pernicious government dismantling areas of our life that work, and are publicly owned, in order to feather the nests of their supporters.

Keep out N.H.S safe say no to this white paper. Remember how much we depend on this service

I waa born before the NHS was. It has served me well having saved my life when my first mammogram found I had breast cancer. The NHS treated it and other illnesses over the years so here I am shouting "DO NOT SELL OUR NHS - PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT" I want everyone to benefit from a free health service funded by fair taxes.

This is the NHS paid for and continues to pay for. It is not to be destroyed by any corrupt government that comes along for the sake of profit.

Absolutely disgusted with this government putting the NHS out to the highest bidder. Put a stop to it now

The NHS belongs to the people paid for over 73Years. and continuing to do so.

The Government has no right to sell any its services to private companies. that would be day light robbery.

This White Paper must not go forward,it must be withdrawn for the health and well being of our NHS,it’s workers and

the public it serves.

Privatization is not the answer. The NHS is OUR National service that must be publicly not privately owned.

Keep privatisation out of our NHS. This bill needs to be withdrawn to protect a public service.

They don't stop. They're determined to undermine and eventually dismantle the NHS.

We've seen the damage and cost that using private providers inflicts - 'test, track & trace' being a prime example. We own the NHS - not the government

How can you sell what you don’t own? Elected representatives and members of parliament are appointed to act as guardians of our resources, not merchants who trade them in for extra cash.

The NHS is funded via our taxes, by the people, for the people. It is not for profiteers.

The American model is no exemplar! It is just a way of getting public money into private hands. Peoples' health shouyld not be a profit line.

The NHS fulfils the principle of giving medical care, free at the point of need to all who need it. It should be cherished and protected as one of the greatest organisations on the planet. Will you be the next one to have severe cardiac pain, or loss of function heralding a stroke? No-one knows when that need will arise. Protect the NHS at all costs. It is something as a Nation we should be immensely proud of. DR G A RICHMOND (RETIRED GP).

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ITS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE HEALTH OF THE NATION IS NOT DEPENDANT ON INCOME. THIS WOULD WORSEN THE INEQUALITY IN BRITAIN WHICH IS THE REASON FOR THE DISCONTENT AROUND.

Stop this White Paper bill. Our NHS should be renationalised and all parts that have been subcontracted out returned to in house. Private companies should have no place in our NHS. Contracting out should be made illegal. It encourages cherry picking by private companies while leaving the responsibility for picking up and remedying mistakes with the state. Private companies are more likely to cut corners as they operate for profit. Our NHS should operate solely for providing the best service possible and for the benefits of patients. Privatisation is profiteering and should have no place within our NHS. Neoliberalism is toxic and is destroying our planet. Remove it from our NHS.

Corrupt to the core. Always have been, always will be.

No one should be allowed to interfere with the greatest organisation that any government anywhere in the world has ever achieved.

Please stop this privatisation. Our NHS is too precious to lose. We don't want an American style version of a health service.

NHS is not for sale or privatisation!

There is no place in our National Health Service for profit. Making profit from people's illness is a disgrace.

Stop selling off the NHS to the privatesetor

Simon Stevens has said of healthcare in England, "this English exceptionalism must come to an end and the NHS must join the global marketplace in health". This 'exceptionalism' that is the NHS, is the envy of much of the rest of the world, it has been an example of 'shared national concern for a nations health and wellbeing' that has been admired and emulated by many. The Commonwealth Fund rated the NHS as the best healthcare system in the world.

When Stevens talks of joining the 'global marketplace' his focus is on the healthcare giants from the USA.

The World Health Organisation rated the U.S. 38th overall in the standing of healthcare provision (a rating below that of Saudi Arabia among others) This makes it a very dubious direction to look for 'improvement', progress or higher standards.

The 'global market' place is about business, and business is about profit. Healthcare is about maintaining a fit, healthy and active population for the wellbeing and productivity of the country as a whole. Healthcare in the UK has been based around this ethos. It has not been based around the idea that the population are a 'commodity' to be used for profit made from their human frailties and the bodily trials of live. Simply, the idea of allowing profit to drive care where flesh and blood become the materials of the industry, is one that is repugnant to the morals of common people.

Even if one were to buy into the concept of private company involvement at a fundamental level, the present Government attitude to contract allocation bears little resemblance to the standard idea of 'market competition'. As the PPE procurement issue (among many other examples) has shown, there has been a contemptable level of abiding to standard practices of tendering and selection. Vetting for appropriate experience, knowledge or ability has been abandoned to the forces of nepotism, cronyism, friendship and favouritism. Indeed the very rules, regulations, guidelines and laws relating to contract allocation have been arrogantly cast aside and ignored in a cavalier way that would make the average Banana Republic despot ruler blush!

With this in mind (and being the present reality) how can such changes be expected to benefit the health service?

Look at the recent acquisition of 49 GP practices in the London region by 'Operose' (the UK subsidiary of the U.S. healthcare giant 'Centene Health') Where was the tendering process? Where was the competition to find 'most appropriate and suitable' provider?

Already GP sessions in at least one of these practices has dropped by 2/3rds. Doesn't look like an improvement does it?

But how did they get the 'bid'?

Previously Simon Stevens right hand person at 'NHS England' leading their "New Care Models Program" was Samantha Jones.

Samantha Jones is now the CEO of 'Operose'. The pieces start to fall into place! It would be funny if it were not such a sickening example 'soft' corruption that has become the order of the day with the present government regime.

After all this, other concerns remain with the proposed White Paper reforms. What about Social Care? There is no mention of how this is to be managed as it becomes incorporated into an ICS from a local council.

Then there is the issue of accountability, scrutiny and public involvement in the ongoing process of monitoring the operation, effectiveness and efficiency of an ICS.

In all successful business, or industrial process, it is universally accepted that continual monitoring and assessment of the operation is necessary to ensure maximum productivity. It is most likely that all such processes (so vital and effective at present) will disappear with the creation of the ICS system. Commercial interests imbedded within an ICS will be able to close the door to public involvement. No more public consultation such as that at GP commissioning groups, Local authority "Health and Social Care, Health Scrutiny" meetings will cease to exist. The commercial elements of an ICS will make it exempt from investigation by 'Freedom of Information' requests.

No, the proposed reforms to the NHS by the establishment if ICSs will not benefit the public, the organisation of healthcare, or the country.

They are an opportunistic grab to control a potential market for profit.

The Government need to be stopped from their high-handed selfish methods of operation.

The duty of government is to manage the affairs of the country for the benefit OF the Country.

This White Paper must be ripped up and a Public NHS Re-instatement bill put in order.

Rob Matthews

The NHS must not be subject to private plundering. All the evidence in privatisation to date has revealed that private companies take over the easiest operations and complications are left for the NHS to pick up. Track and Trace, community GP practices were taken over and then dropped when they had helped shareholders initially. Soon as the conditions changed the Private companies left the NHS and move on.

The White paper again gives the power to private companies to cash in. The American health care system fuelled by private monopoly results in rich private insurance companies allowing individuals to be over medicated and for poorer people no access to care.

Keep the NHS public and fund accordingly. Withdraw the white paper it is unfit for purpose.

We need an NHS that is not controlled by the requirements of business. The NHS has been able to care for the Nation beyond any expectations, have risen to near the impossible. This year has shown that care for the public is a more powerful motivation then money, that the profit motive doesn’t give the performance needed as illustrated by test and track and the provision of PPE. The latter also shows the danger of not having properly transparent procurement.

Stop this white paper bill immediately

You have linked to a .Docx file, this is the latest word file format on the Submit Evidence page it says to submit a .ODT or .RTF format.

Perhaps you shout change the file format back to .RTF as not everyone will know how to do that.

Save our NHS

This has to stopped . The only thing that is still great about Great Britain IS the NHS

I say no toThis white paper bill. Don’t privatise the NHS. Private companies want to profit over people’s health.

This White Paper is bad for the NHS. It allows private companies onto the boards of health care trusts, deciding whether to provide or ration services to the public. This would force more people to have to go private to receive the care they need. It would leave anyone unable to afford private health care without care.

We do not want an american-style heath service.

This needs be stopped, will not be good for the people of this country. Standards will drop and people will be made to work for less money/Worst working conditions. All in the name of profit.

The NHS should be properly funded by the government & not ineffective expensive private companies making profits from ill health. It's outrageous.

Unfortunately the Tories will push anything, even dangerous legislation through Parliament , to stop any and all opposition ! Our civil rights have been decimated!

re must be no privatisation of any part of the NHS this will lead to a gradual takeover of the NHS putting profit before people, This applies especially to American companies being involved which is n not acceptable. There must also be scrutiny of all contracts being proposed in the future. The NHS is for the people not for profit.

Our NHS is for us all and something we are proud of. The Lansley changes have been detrimental and further change is likely to be even worse. These changes are unnecessary and do nothing to improve the service for the British public who pay for it and use it.

When I was growing up our NHS was the envy of the world and all people in this country knew they had health security. It made us a content country. Governments have been systematically dismantling it for a long time now and since 2010 it has been decimated just to provide money for the elites who really do not need it. I don't want to live in a country that will actually deny some citizens healthcare, to me that is just evil. It is perfectly possible to have a fully funded and amazing healthcare system for all by taxing everyone according to means. The very wealthy have the broadest shoulders and would not even miss their tax contribution. I am sick of this countries wonderful public institutions being wrecked for the sake of increasing the irrational wealth of the super rich. I am fighting for a secure future for my children and grandchildren.

We need to fight against the privatisation of all public services but especially of the NHS.

I cannot believe this government is thinking of selling off our NHS. It is something we are all proud off and they have done more to control this pandemic than any of the other organisations that the government has spend millions on.