How it started:
@ClareGerada #NHS defender against Health & Social Care Act 2012, friend of @keepnhspublic @nhscampaigns editorial board @openDemocracy
How its going:
#NHS-privatising @Conservatives government appointee
Damehood
Private mental health company advisory board
US import
@SolHughesWriter
American parent company scandal
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal…
Locked in Psych ward

'They were literally kidnapping psychiatric patients and holding them against their will until the day their insurance ran out'

#MentalHealthMatters

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More from @drbobgill

6 Apr
Dangerous editorial by @jkaffash demonstrates selective blindness & historical amnesia.
Here's why. 1/13
pulsetoday.co.uk/views/editors-…
Underplaying significance of American corporate raiders following recent annoucement of Centene's UK subsidiary takeover of GP practices ignores dominance of various US players now metastasised throughout NHS not least in @NHSEngland board 2/13
lowdownnhs.info/news/us-takeov…
most notably #Mckinsey #UnitedHealth.
Business model of American privatised healthcare is built on fraud and denial of care. 3/13
economist.com/leaders/2014/0…
nytimes.com/2017/05/19/bus…
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1 Mar 20
***Use less qualified cheaper staff & compliant doctors***

Health insurance man Sir #SimonStevens prescription to screw over doctors & down-skill workforce

His deadly prescription for #UnitedHealth now imposed on #NHS as CE @NHSEngland

oklahoman.com/article/337308…
Dangerous junior doctor contract imposed thanks to @TheBMA sabotaged own industrial action

New GP contract railroaded through WITHOUT a ballot thanks to @BMA_GP

All set to replace doctors, those that remain made compliant using appraisal system & bonuses 2 deny care
#primarycarenetworks will replicate American-style HMO/ACO
GP contract incorporates #SimonStevens #UnitedHealth policies
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