Are we really going to sit by while they destroy the NHS?

[teqniq]

Well this is just totally shit:

375K London GP patients sold to company owned by US subprime health insurance profiteer

London’s biggest GP ‘provider’, AT Medics Ltd, has just been sold to the UK subsidiary of a US subprime health insurance profiteer with a long record of fraud, financial dishonesty, health care mis…

calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com

This has made it into the Graun. It does however make no mention of the parent company's really dodgy track record in the states as outlined in the blog:

NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

Merger with Centene Corp covers 500,000 patients fuelling calls for inquiry into ‘NHS privatisation by stealth’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Cerv]

oh. that's my GP.
I've not had any communication from the practice mentioning this yet. funny to find out about it in the newspaper

 

[quiet guy]

Cerv the patients don't matter. These practice companies only inform us after the fact.

My practice up in Derbyshire was sold to a company down south and then this ended up underperforming and Derbyshire Community Healthcare Service is now running it.

 

[ska invita]

Former private health firm chief 'given job' as No10 advisor

Samantha Jones, the outgoing chief executive of Operose Health, will take up a post as an "expert adviser for NHS transformation and social care"

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Shechemite]

Four Cornwall NHS trust directors got overtime pay in pandemic

Chief executive says the issue is 'particularly sensitive' when staff have been working so hard over the past year

www.cornwalllive.com

 

[bmd]

It's a pity that there's no political capital here for Labour to spend.

 

[bmd]

Four Cornwall NHS trust directors got overtime pay in pandemic

Chief executive says the issue is 'particularly sensitive' when staff have been working so hard over the past year

www.cornwalllive.com

Bless them! They didn't ask for it and they had no idea they'd been paid a few thou extra.

Imagine not knowing you'd been paid extra.

Anyway, just like all the MPs, this is nothing to do with them. They just spend it, so don't go blaming them!

 

[teqniq]

Please sign:

We Own It

We Own It is a voice for everyone who wants UK public services to be run for people, not profit.

weownit.org.uk

 

[teqniq]

Someone on Twitter suggesting that Starmer should threaten to renationalise, without compensation any parts of the NHS sold off by the vermin when Labour are next in power. Personally I think this is a vote winner, but would Starmer contemplate such a move? Debatable.

 

[brogdale]

Someone on Twitter suggesting that Starmer should threaten to renationalise, without compensation any parts of the NHS sold off by the vermin when Labour are next in power. Personally I think this is a vote winner, but would Starmer contemplate such a move? Debatable.

Paid for via PFI.

 

[teqniq]

Paid for via PFI.

What a fucking scem that turned out to be.

 

[Shechemite]

NHS is destroying itself comrades. But then you’ve been complicit in your own privatisation since the off.

 

[Shechemite]

Don’t think we don’t remember how much you were against the NHS in the first place

 

[Shechemite]

God forbid anyone would wish to ‘destroy’ this real piece of socialism.

Disabled woman who died in Sheffield hospital ‘ignored’, parents tell inquest

Laura Booth, 21, stopped eating after she went into Royal Hallamshire hospital for an eye operation

www.theguardian.com

 

[Shechemite]

National religion

 

[Shechemite]

They concluded he had come to A&E because he felt lonely, and sent him home – alone.

Luke Naish’s family ‘still having to fight’ after ‘uncritical’ inquest into his death - The Bristol Cable

Luke’s Naish’s loved ones say care he received from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership was inadequate, and that his inquest did not deliver justice. They are the third family to criticise the Avon Coroner in recent years, and are now seeking a judicial review.

thebristolcable.org

 

[Shechemite]

NHS is destroying itself comrades. But then you’ve been complicit in your own privatisation since the off.

those ‘high intensity networks’ being rolled out in the NHS in order to criminalise distress and manage ‘litigious’ patients. Don’t worry, whilst they are about making ‘the NHS’ more ‘efficient’ in servicing the needs of state and capital, they have a nice intersectional touch

Richard Stubbs

Richard is the CEO of the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network.

www.data-can.org.uk

 

[Shechemite]

Established member of the NHS assembly

 

[teqniq]

MadeInBedlam If you wish to catalogue things that the NHS or it's staff have got wrong, why don't you start a thread on it? None of what you have posted above have got anything to do with NHS privatisation, unlike this:

Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s ‘chumocracy’ is using Covid crisis to sell off health service by stealth, says Sir David King

www.theguardian.com

TIA

 

[Pickman's model]

is the gist of the thread thus far 'yes'?

i've seen nothing to make me alter my opinion

 

[Border Reiver]

Bless them! They didn't ask for it and they had no idea they'd been paid a few thou extra.

Imagine not knowing you'd been paid extra.

Anyway, just like all the MPs, this is nothing to do with them. They just spend it, so don't go blaming them!

The bonuses have been returned and the chief executive has been forced out of the health service.

 

[bmd]

The bonuses have been returned and the chief executive has been forced out of the health service.

So what? They got it and we only know about it because of a FoI request. So... what?

 

[Edie]

They concluded he had come to A&E because he felt lonely, and sent him home – alone.

Luke Naish’s family ‘still having to fight’ after ‘uncritical’ inquest into his death - The Bristol Cable

Luke’s Naish’s loved ones say care he received from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership was inadequate, and that his inquest did not deliver justice. They are the third family to criticise the Avon Coroner in recent years, and are now seeking a judicial review.

thebristolcable.org

The conclusion is far more complex than that

 

[Border Reiver]

So what? They got it and we only know about it because of a FoI request. So... what?

Reality over falsehoods.

 

[bmd]

Reality over falsehoods.

Jolly good.

 

[Border Reiver]

Jolly good.

Glad you approve.

 

[MrSki]

Who would have thought it?

 

[teqniq]

I imagine it can have escaped few people's attention that Dido Harding has applied for the the top job with the NHS. Married to John Penrose who has advocated for a private heath insurance system. She completely fucked up test and trace, wasting billions on something that doesn't even work properly, the only people who have benefited from that are the private contractors. Quelle surprise. Now she's indulging in dogwhistle shite saying that she will end the reliance on foreign doctors and nurses:



Would it be too much to hope that she's overstepped the mark with this? Having her as the head of the NHS would be a disaster.

 

[platinumsage]

Amanda Pritchard appointed, obviously as part of some cunning Tory plan.

 

[teqniq]

That'll be install someone who is considered a safe pair of hands unlike Dido Harding who is anything but.

Meanwhile:

Forget the spin – new English NHS bill is all about cutting our right to healthcare

Far from reversing the disastrous 2012 reforms, this new bill makes it even easier to axe and privatise services – that’s the real COVID ‘recovery plan’

www.opendemocracy.net