Politicians need to remove privatisation from the NHS. The only people who benefit from NHS privatisation are the private shareholders 🚨🚨🚨
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🚨BREAKING: We’re suing the government to protect the NHS!
The government's unlawful deal with Trump will push up NHS drug prices - so we're taking them to court.
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Politicians are getting away with this, just like they’re getting away with doing second or even third jobs while taking full pay as an MP. Maybe it’s time for us to kick up a fuss?
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£1,600,000,000. Profit. Extracted from OUR NHS. In two years. Under a Labour government. Some of it went to companies in tax havens. None of it went to your care.
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Independent research warns the US-UK drug pricing deal could cost the NHS up to £64bn by 2036, resulting in more avoidable patient deaths than COVID.
That’s why I have signed a parliamentary motion opposing a statutory instrument (SI) that gives ministers the power to change ‘NICE’ thresholds.
This SI would open the door to the NHS paying higher drug prices under the deal.
The Government should pause and make space for proper scrutiny of these changes.
Our NHS, and our lives, depend on it.
Absolutely disgraceful that the government is wasting NHS money on privatisation
New research from @CHPIthinktank found that £1.6 BILLION has been wasted on profits in the past 2 years
This could have paid for
9,178 doctors
or
19,428 nurses
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When I finished my surgical training in the NHS (about 15 years ago), I went to the US for a fellowship.
The programme director liked my skills and offered a fast track to move to the US full time.
I was extremely torn, as with the private health insurance system I would make more than three times what I would in the UK.
I however found the way poor people were treated in the US and how they died from lack of basic medical care reprehensible and moved back to the UK.
With my experience now I will earn more than four or five times what I currently do in the NHS.
I however sleep easy every night knowing that all decisions I made during the day were based on what was best for the patient and not how rich the patient is.
The NHS has problems but it is a beautiful system where a homeless person is treated exactly the same as the prime minister.
Farage gets a lot of money from private companies in the US who have been eyeing the billions they can make in the UK for years. I will benefit from it money-wise but I still oppose it as I am not a monster like Farage.
I’ve been an NHS doctor for over 15 years
I can sit here and confidently tell you that the NHS is worse today than it has ever been
Streeting’s NHS funding cuts, doctor replacement, referral refusals have led to astronomical hospital wait lists & GPs on the brink of collapse
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence is being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
The 10-minute consultation in primary care was designed for acute problems such as sore throats, issuing repeat prescriptions or carrying out basic follow-ups. With the increasing complexity of patients and a greater range of management options, longer consultations are needed.
What Privatisation has done for you?
Most expensive Energy in the world.
Dirtest most expensive Water in Europe in England.
Slowest most expensive Mail ever.
Slowest most expensive Trains in Europe
Least number of Hospital beds ever.*
*Privatised Hospital building
Hearing now how every transfer of resources from NHS into private sector reduces the capacity of public sector. 30 per cent is now more realistic figure for privatisation of the NHS - 5 big cataract surgery firms making 32% return on investment, £169m profit
You’re right The Sunday Times! Now keep going! Say it after me:
“Billions in tax-payer money is being funnelled out of the NHS in various ways, because politicians are turning the NHS into a cash-cow for private shareholders.”
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If you were trying to destroy the NHS from the inside, you could not be doing a better job than Wes Streeting is right now.
Qualified medical professionals should not have a jobs crisis when we have a longstanding staffing deficit in the NHS.
Our resident doctor strikes are covered by kind senior doctors to ensure that emergency activity goes ahead.
It is NHS England and yourselves that put patients at risk by pushing for elective activity when staffing is stretched.
That is dangerous and a source of shame.