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Government incompetence isn't an accident, it's part of Tory ideology. To maintain the fiction that the market yields the best outcomes, the government has to show itself to be both inefficient and lacking in benevolence.

My GP surgery has been taken over by a private company, you can’t get appointments (you can’t even get someone to answer the phone), everything is prioritised by money and services have been steadily reduced. Dental services have been decimated and our local hospital has been rendered impotent nearly leading to the death of my son. It’s time to halt the rot.

An animated fairy I have just made tale about how privatised water is polluting our rivers.

STINKY STORY https://vimeo.com/664337462

Private companies equate 'cost saving' with efficiency. Even if a service is ostensibly cheaper - eg hospital cleaners - it is not efficient to employ people on wages which are so low they need in-work benefits to top up their earnings. This is a ridiculous and if the cost of providing the benefits - administration and payments - were added to the cost of the service, I bet it would be seen to be what it is. An expensive and hugely inefficient way to divert taxpayers' money into the hands of corporate profiteers, and increase inequality.

I implore my fellow Britons to wake up about this government and this Lame Prime Minister and remove them from office forget Labour Starmer will offer no alternative to this rogue Government the NHS deserves to be fully funded now We are over the worst of covid19 the NHS must never be run down by severe funding cuts by Labour or the Tories ever again Johnson has no respect for the British public he must go now

I believe that the opposition parties in H of C should be campaigning now on saving certain services completely in the NHS from privatisation. This will bring the matter to public attention and make them realise there is a problem. (Even the most self centre journalists use them!)

I would start with campaigning on the specialist children and cancer hospitals, organ donation, blood donation, the ambulance service and antenatal and obstetric care. If people realised what was at stake they might be more responsive to listening.

The NHS should not be a marketplace. Health should be on the basis of need. There is already a two-tier system.

Privatisation of the bus services was and is a myth. The Government, well tax payers spend millions each year on subsidizing the services in the form of fuel duty rebates (FDR). Council. already struggling with austerity subsidize oerators to run non commercial services. The big operators have no interest in providing a service but only in generating profit, profits which could belong in the public purse and not the shareholders

I used to work for an NHS funded private service. It was disturbing, with many abusing their position for financial gain. The system gave financial reward for good service, reporting 'green' for mental health wards for women and children. The factor of finance lead to misreporting incidents and business-minded management. Mental health declined in staff and lead to closure by 'nhs england' only to continue with limited training and a change of ward type. Staff requested to leave for abuse were moved to other hospitals. Agency staff were reported to have using a false identity for DBS and passport ID. CAMHS Psychiatrists penalised for over-prescription of medication were transferred to lead other larger hospital wards.

I left indefinitely after googling the human rights of children, not able to participate in a system that would entail that doubt I have found this campaign, and now have somewhere to commit my anger.

We cannot let corporate crawlers take our NHS.

My son needed his ears syringing. Now apparently this is not available on NHS and had got to be done by a private clinic. Privatisation is on its way. Shame on you Boris. But I’m sure you cronies in the private sector will do nicely out of it. Greed Greed Greed.

I was born in 1948, and as a very young child I was seriously ill, and needed hospital care. The NHS saved my life. Many of my family worked in the NHS, as I did for more than 35 years.

Having a health service that is free and non-discriminating is a basic HUMAN RIGHT, and whilst I have no objection to people seeking private medical care if they wish, it would be devastating if the NHS was privatised by profiteers.

I fully agree with a lot on here but I disagree about the BBC they are a hidden tax. We have to pay for it if we want to or not and the fat cats running it have no desire to help the public, just get rich themselves all taking out what they can get hold of. If the wages and expenditure was properly managed then there would be plenty of money in there and OAP's over 75 would still be able to have a free licence so get that right and I will support this if not then let it disappear.

I do not know how it was allowed to get to this state . We do not want our much valued NHS to be a cash cow for bussiness' to profit from people's unfortunate illness. I have recently taken my bank account from Virginia Money due to their expansionist plans . No private companies should be allowed on this board.just patients or the likes

Private companies should not be allowed to sit on decision making committees or boards as they have a self interest and will work for that self interest. It is very important that the users of these services should be represented!

The NHS is for the patients not for companies making profits

Profit has no place in the NHS. We demand equality of treatment regardless of wealth and the patients who after all pay for the service deserve a say in the decisions. Certainly organisations who will potentially profit from those decisions should be excluded. We should never take for granted what a treasure we have in the NHS and guard it against anyone who wants to destroy it.

Our health service is deteriorating fast. It seems that this government is hell bent on privatising Our National Health Service by stealth and graduating steps. This will not benefit the NHS user but make profits for large companies. Enough is enough and accordingly:-

I do not wish that PRIVATE COMPANIES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO SIT ON NHS

DECISION-MAKING BODIES because they care more about profits than they do

about making sure people are well cared for.

I also wish that PATIENTS AND THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE GIVEN A SEAT ON KEY

DECISION-MAKING COMMITTEES AND BOARDS because patient voices are important

for designing services that work for everyone.

I have now ereached an age where my body is starting to break down. Aches and pains I can tolerate, but when they can be fixed with a quick op that I don't even have to stay overnight for, I get angry that I have to wait half a lifetime to get it. Depite being in serious pain every day and relying on high powered painkillers, that are only supposed to be a short term temporary solution, I have had no reply from the hospital scheduling after over 4 weeks of waiting and that's just to find out when the appointment to have the op is. Chances are, when I do get the letter telling me when the appointment is, I'll be waiting another year or two in seriouos pain before I get the actual op done.

NHS is seriously screwed up right now and it has nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with gross underfunding, privatisation, along with overpopulation by mass immigration as well as asylum seekers taking all the primary appointment slots when they have not paid a penny toward it. I have paid my NI stamp since I started working in the 70's, now I need the service I paid so much for, I expect to get it. If I wanted to go private, I would have taken out BUPA insurance.

Private Health Insurance creates levels of Society by wealth. Meaning only the rich can survive. It will be the end of the British way of life.

Do you have an up-to-date list of Tory Ministers (and MPs) with links to private healthcare companies and funding banks - or perhaps pen portraits (like the memes Rachael Swindon did) which can be widely publicised?

If we want decent public services, military and freedoms then get rid of this abomination of a government it's compliant opposition parties and lame stream media there is no way Johnson should remain in office a day longer he's a embarrassment to Britain and I personally would feel safer without him Hancock gove Patel and Sage around

The sale of GP surgeries will be a gateway to make profit from a public service. Why would a private company be interested in the surgeries. Too many public services are being put out to tender to businesses that only want to make a profit and will be difficult to make their services answerable to the public that use them. It is difficult to find an NHS dentist will the same happen to GP's. Many will leave .Will they end up renting a room/chair which seems to be the practise in Dentistry. I rarely see the same dentist and often feel that I am being sold products or extra services that I will have to pay for, this could slowly happen with Doctors. They maybe forced to use only certain medication and services eg eye clinic owned by a subsidiary of that company which happens at the opticians. Gradually we have lost control of public services which we own .We need to take back control so that they can meet the needs of the communities they serve.

I am a former nurse, (third generation)trained on the wards as an apprentice from 1960-63,because, like others, it was all I ever wanted to do. Ted Heath took Matrons out of hospitals in 1973, replacing them with businessmen who went to foreign countries to 'find out how it was done.' I went back in 1978, and watched it go private after Mrs Thatcher decided in 1982 in a memo that she wanted to Quote,"bring an end to the NHS once and for all" Unquote. The elderly were denied pain relief for cancer, denied a full night's sleep (we were told to get them out of bed every two hours to commode them)and generally neglected. Nurse training was removed from hospitals to universities, to facilitate privatisation!!! Politicians now tell us the lie that nursing is more technical, (it's the machines!)because it's cheaper than traing apprentices!! Now, the elderly are routinely put into incontinence pads other patients are told to go to the toilet in the bed, and are dying of starvation,because many of these graduates want to go into management, not to care for the sick.We were told that scientists found that at 65 degrees fahrenheight, viruses and bacteria stayed static, so we didn't get the antibiotic resistant bugs that are making people ill in hospitals now. We treated our patients as though they were our families,unlike a great maany patients now,and I have had experience of hospitals in the 90's onwards as both nurse and patient and I am horrified and totally disgusted because the NHS no longer exists as it did when the REAL Labour party set it up the year I was 6 years old, 1948. Succesive governments have not, and do not CARE!!

One of the reasons that Private companies were called in (as I recall) to run things like buses and railways was that the profit incentive in these companies was meant to focus minds on economical running. Public ownership was criticised as being wasteful and with only limited access to loans/Capital to develop the services and infrastructure (the alternative, government borrowing, was constrained).

Now we see that in effect private companies are just as bad, just in different ways (not prioritising the consuming public and stashing cash for shareholders).

So we need to move to a system where the services run for the benefit of the public are not providing excess profit and are run such that profits made are either returned to the public or ploughed back into improving the services.

Who will oversee these new public run services? Who will decide what is an acceptable level of "profit" and how it is used? I ask because it seems clear to me that we cannot allow the new proposed publicly run services to fall into lazy or corrupt practices as may have previously created the appetite for privatisation last time?

Further what would need to be done to lift the capital limits which so constrained (we were told) previous iterations of British Rail etc?

Stop with the alarmist miss information gp surgery's have never been owend by the public or the nhs so the sale of gp surgery's is NOT SELLING the nhs labour's private Finance initiative brought in under blair and then continued by the tory Liberal coalition then the tiry government is the selling of nhs buldings and property the awarding of contracts to companies such as capita to manage hospital's is also selling the nhs but selling an already private business such as a gp surgery is not