private health expert runs the NHS, why?

CCGs, clinical commissioning groups (established in 2012 to hand the bulk of
the NHS budget to private providers), have stopped providing funding for many medicines & surgical operations under their clinical policies.

The CCGs sent a list of medicines they'd banned to all GP practices but failed to recommend GPs CHECK TO SEE WHICH PATIENT IS EXEMPT from paying for the medicines. This led to doctors practices applying a blanket ban with the result being hundreds of patients ringing in asking where their repeat prescriptions were?

In their rush to save money due to government underfunding, the CCGs claimed they now had limited resources so must ban or restrict access to certain hospital operations and even rationed and banned some basic primary care surgical procedures unless the patient met certain 'criteria'.

One 'criteria' now for gaining access to NHS medicines includes 'financial viability'. 

This 'criteria' is straight from the American health insurance market, something the head of NHS England is all too familiar with.

After all, the man running NHS England (NHSE) is no other than Simon Stevens, the ex vice-president of global operations Europe at UnitedHealth, the largest private health insurer in the USA.

Stevens took over as CEO of NHSE in 2014 where he almost immediately invited the head of Americas state funded 'medicaid' over to England for a quick chit chat about how to run Accountable Care Organisations over here in England.

Earlier this week the UK Conservative government voted not to protect the NHS from trade deals with the USA and other countries.

The 2019 Conservative manifesto claims they would protect the NHS from trade deals, yet the very same MPs who pledged to protect the NHS went and betrayed it.

Here's the list of all the MPs who voted AGAINST protecting the NHS in post Brexit trade deal.

Giving multi-national companies access to NHS contracts is no different from a traitor selling off the crown jewels..

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Simon Stevens CV [PDF] can be downloaded here

Simon Stevens: NHS chief executive with a private past

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