Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Sale of The Laurels and other GP surgeries to US company
Anybody know anything about this?
Sale of The Laurels and other GP surgeries to Centene - sale of GP practices on 49 sites in London, with 500,000 patients, including the Laurels in St Ann’s (Haringey) to the US health insurance company Centene, via its UK subsidiary Operose.
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Permalink Reply by Graham Charnock on
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I cannot believe this is happening. without the process being more widely publicized. It's the stealing of our health services by stealth. Mind you, the NHS also seems to be devolving much of its services by taking over high street premises. My annual retinal scan is usually at the Whittington, but now is at 151 Stroud Green Road, which google currently reveals to be a television showroom. I don't really know what is going on. I used to be referred to the Laurels for my regular blood tests, but I guess that isn't going to happen now.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Regular blood tests at the Laurels are carried out by staff working for North Middlesex Hospital, rather than being Laurels practice employees, so you may see no change in that.
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Permalink Reply by Alyson on
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I'm on the email list of some friends who were monitoring the NHS changes in 2012, and are continuing to try to raise awareness about privatisation by stealth. It is so misleading that most media reports just say 'the NHS' as if everything from GPs to hospital trusts were all one integrated whole. Allyson Pollock wrote a book detailing the history of how things got in such a mess but it's a very dense read.
Here are some links:
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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Seen this before.
Sure checks have proved that the Centres are owned By Doctors or Local Health Authorities. Not the NHS.
That let them out to Doctors and NHS for Services
Sure the Laurels was a Doctors before offering more NHS Services
Aware my Doctors - Westbury Ave N22 is owned and controlled by Senior Doctors.
Still get my eyes sorted at North Middlesex, as Diabetic 2 . They have recently moved it around. As now have the Children's Emergency Entrance where other clinics was
Sure Lordship Lane is a Local Authority Building . Which is used by Doctors and NHS Services and Private company carrying out other services for NHS
Currently a major Covid Vaccine Centre
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Excellent links Alyson. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Sapphireblue on
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This is appalling. The end of the NHS as we know it is nigh. A friend in Cornwall sent me info about something similar 2 years ago - health centres there being taken over by Richard Branson's Virgin. . I found it hard to believe ... but at least it wasn't one of those huge and vile American Health Insurance companies which make health into a commodity and if you can't pay, go away. The poor and lower-income elderly (ie. pensioners) become increasingly dispossessed and left out of proper health care - as happens in America. And as you pointed out it's by stealth - why aren't we seeing public outrage, media publicity, Panorama documentaries. While Martin Bashir is in disgrace for falsification and lying, isn't it time some journos tried to redeem their profession?
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Seems a bit odd to be maligning the new 'American Health Insurance' owners without acknowledging the greed of the 'British NHS GPs' who established the private network and then courted offshore buyers.
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I remember in my early days when idoctors was in NHS. Clinics. Which as population grew. Was unable to cope with Population. So Government / NHS allowed Doctors to set up Doctors Practises. Paying them for Services. Over the years as they aged, many sold them to Chain groups. Plus local Authorities set up Health Centres. Where Doctors rented space. With other NHS services
Not forgetting that the Majority of Doctors are from other Countries. Plus for tax reasons they are Limited Companies and often registered in their Country of Origin
Sure records will Show, more are owned / registered outside USA
Also that there are massive shortages of Doctors practises across UK . Regardless of reports how profitable they might be extended
Sure reports of buildings being taken over. I am sure they will still be NHS patients
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Permalink Reply by kotkas on
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Do you think that an American company buying into a cluster of UK trusts is going to be the impetus for the UK government to introduce a US-type insurance-based system and scrap the NHS? FYI insurance companies have to be huge to diversify the risks the have to cover and insurance as a whole is great for society so maybe do some casual reading on the topic - might help with your outrage.
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A crowdjustice campaign has now started to mount a legal challenge to the decision:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-our-gp-practices-being-sold-...
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What are people concerned about? If they can provide the same service more efficiently then there will be more money left for other government services like social care, policing and education.
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