National protest at Centene take over of GP surgeries
Keep Our NHS Public and We Own It campaigners were joined last week by Jeremy Corbyn and other MPs to protest the take over of 50 GP surgeries by private company Operose, owned by US […]
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Centene will see you now
How a US corporation became the biggest provider of primary care in the UK.Every day at Operose Health at 11am. Sharp. The staff are instructed to take a 10 minute “pause”. In other words, what […]
US health insurers are coming for the NHS
This article was written by Keep Our NHS Public member Dr Jackie Applebee, and was originally published in Tribune magazine. We are reproducing it with permission. The latest move by US health insurance giant Centene […]
Centene: Undemocratic takeover of GP services
This is Trowbridge surgery in Hackney Wick. It is one of 11 GP surgeries in NE London and 49 across London that have just been sold to Operose, a subsidiary of Centene, which is a […]
2021 NHS White Paper: government seizes on the pandemic as an opportunity
In the UK, a White Paper is the way government presents policy preferences before it introduces legislation. It is also a way of testing public opinion on controversial policy issues. The recent White Paper ‘Integration […]
Government used crisis to increase privatisation – NHS white paper will endorse
Boris Johnson seeks to ‘take back control of the NHS’ – full scale alert The leaked draft of the forthcoming government white paper on the NHS has been interpreted, notably by the Times and Hugh […]
Dangerous NHS restructuring to go ahead despite Covid
It has never been clearer than during this pandemic just how important the NHS is to the health and safety of the public. Yet the NHS was left to face the Covid pandemic already severely […]