We apologise for the short notice - we just found out about this. We're sorry not to give you more time to respond. The reality is that Integrated Care Systems, ICS, will further embed many of the problems from the 2012 Health and Social Care Act that made our health services into a jumbled market of public and private. Hancock said working in “partnership” with the private sector was one of the “big learnings” from the pandemic. Even though test and trace has been just one of the life threatening privatisations of the past year!
So we can't let the disintegration of our NHS in England go ahead. Luckily the rest of the UK is not going ahead with these plans yet, but it is not a good sign for the direction of our NHS as a whole, long term. We don't have much time. Please will you respond to the consultation today? |