US healthcare giant in takeover of more than 50 GP practices.

[Muck Spreader]

Giant US healthcare insurance company starts picking at the UK's golden cow.

Campaigners write to Hancock requesting investigation of Centene takeover of London GP surgeries - The Lowdown

Campaigners against privatisation of the NHS have written to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, questioning the legality of the recent takeover of large numbers of GP surgeries in London by the US Corporation Centene following its acquisition of the UK company AT...

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[Pasty]

Well you have to wait 4 days or so for a call back from a GP these days so I suggest privatise the whole lot. It's becoming a joke. Might as well accept it. Blair killed the NHS.

 

[le bon paysan]

So the US health insurance giant Centene quietly takes control of over 49 NHS GP practices in the UK and states an aspiration to acquire more and this gets close to zero coverage in the media ? Why are you not all outraged ? The NHS is being sold off before your very eyes

From what I can see this got more coverage in the French and Belgian media than it did the UK's. A Francophone Belgian journo called it, "The beginning of the end for social healthcare in Britain once the Americans buy it all"
The quiet unseen privatisation of the NHS

 

[Muck Spreader]

Well you have to wait 4 days or so for a call back from a GP these days so I suggest privatise the whole lot. It's becoming a joke. Might as well accept it. Blair killed the NHS.

How?

 

[robs1]

Well these are private businesses now so no change there, the crunch is the cost to the nhs to provide the services they are contracted to and the quality of the service they provide to patients, time will tell but SOME gp practices provide a very poor service. As a general rule I wouldnt be in favour of this deal, however mrs works as a health visitor and the running of this service here was taken over by virgin care, while they still have too many managers the service is now run in a 21st century way instead if a 1947 way. The staff think it's much better which says a lot imvho

 

[Pasty]

How?

Look it up. I have a friend who has epilepsy and had to wait nearly a week for a call back. In the end she handed the phone to me and the GP was a joke. Ooh ahh, not sure. Covid meh. F off on your guaranteed £100k salary and your gold plated pension. Useless.

 

[le bon paysan]

Look it up. I have a friend who has epilepsy and had to wait nearly a week for a call back. In the end she handed the phone to me and the GP was a joke. Ooh ahh, not sure. Covid meh. F off on your guaranteed £100k salary and your gold plated pension. Useless.

Shocking!
Do you think if there was a fee ( reimbursed) it would get rid of time wasters and / or improve the service?

 

[Pasty]

Shocking!
Do you think if there was a fee ( reimbursed) it would get rid of time wasters and / or improve the service?

I don't know the answer to that. It's kind of going into game theory isn't it? Maybe there is some merit in it.

 

[bobk]

Shocking!
Do you think if there was a fee ( reimbursed) it would get rid of time wasters and / or improve the service?

Our doctors are the same , 4 days for an appointment if you're lucky , waste of space , better going to the drop in centre if you're ill , better doctors too

 

[Muck Spreader]

Look it up. I have a friend who has epilepsy and had to wait nearly a week for a call back. In the end she handed the phone to me and the GP was a joke. Ooh ahh, not sure. Covid meh. F off on your guaranteed £100k salary and your gold plated pension. Useless.

Our doctors are the same , 4 days for an appointment if you're lucky , waste of space , better going to the drop in centre if you're ill , better doctors too

Go private then.

 

[bobk]

Go private then.

Got that , for emergencies , same doctors though

 

[arcobob]

Shocking!
Do you think if there was a fee ( reimbursed) it would get rid of time wasters and / or improve the service?

It might. Anything is worth a try but not US privatisation hopefully.

 

[bobk]

It might. Anything is worth a try but not US privatisation hopefully.

Our village is colloquially known as Gods waiting room , yet although we have a purpose built health centre the knobs that have taken it over run it from a semi 2 miles down the road , wtf is that about

 

[Muck Spreader]

Got that , for emergencies , same doctors though

Well pay a bit more for comprehensive cover!

 

[bobk]

Well pay a bit more for comprehensive cover!

Bet your health service is getting stretched now

 

[Muck Spreader]

Our village is colloquially known as Gods waiting room , yet although we have a purpose built health centre the knobs that have taken it over run it from a semi 2 miles down the road , wtf is that about

Ruddy hell it's got to be younger than the average rural French village. It's actually one of the good things about living here it makes us still feel young.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Bet your health service is getting stretched now

With regard to what, old folk , covid, shortage of GP's, immigrants?

 

[bobk]

With regard to what, old folk , covid, shortage of GP's, immigrants?

Tout

 

[ollie989898]

Errrr the bulk of GP services are already privatised. There is no law that I am aware of that says anyone can't own a GP practice, even some American hedge fund. Even TFF members could own one I suspect?

You can pay to use a GP privately if you want.

 

[arcobob]

Errrr the bulk of GP services are already privatised. There is no law that I am aware of that says anyone can't own a GP practice, even some American hedge fund. Even TFF members could own one I suspect?

You can pay to use a GP privately if you want.

I already do, it’s called taxation.