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Twenty20 Capital Investment Management Take-Over NHS Children's And Sexual Health Services NHS staff transferred to HCRG Healthcare terms and conditions - Prevention and Primary Care take over from hospitals using digital services Health Services Journal reports that a private firm, HCRG Care Group, has been awarded a contract worth around £1.3bn to lead community health services for an entire Integrated Care System for up to nine years. They will be the lead provider for all adult and community services across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care System from April 2025.
HCRG will now take over from the four main providers: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust, Oxford Health Foundation Trust, and a partnership of three NHS Trusts serving Wiltshire via a joint venture. According to the BSW Integrated Care Board, HCRG will lead an “innovative new community-based care partnership” with the NHS, local authority and charity sector providers. This of course makes it clear that the 42 Integrated Care Systems ARE indeed a replacement for the National Health Service and entirely separate from it! In reality, for the people of Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire; the NHS no longer exists! One of the most significant statements for hospital healthcare was this statement from BSW ICB chief medical officer Amanda Webb: 'The organisation will “work closely” with HCRG to “bring to life the government’s aims to move from hospital care to community care”. She added: “The next two years will see a major transformation of community-based care across BSW as the new approach is rolled out.” In other words, hospital care will be denied whenever possible, and patients discouraged to attend A&E and diverted to privately run community-based healthcare.
Private healthcare companies find it difficult to make profit running hospitals and have handed back hospitals to the NHS e.g. Circle Health contract for Hinchingbrooke Hospital; whilst 'Life Sciences' (the use of digital services such as mobile phone apps, on-line services) are not as appropriate to the hospital environment in terms of profit making. See the Unionsafety E-Library for documentation of Life Sciences and NHS policies here Of course 'digital' means the patient having to provide their private healthcare records and personal detail to those running the apps, which can then be sold to private health insurance companies. This is essential for the final phase of complete privatisation of what was the NHS, for private health insurance company vultures to profit and mushroom, whilst the Government ensures the total collapse of what was a publicly owned, publicly paid through taxes, healthcare system.
This is £61.87 Billion of tax payers NHS funding that has been 'stolen' from the NHS budget via corrupt decisions by politicians of both the Tory and Labour Party! Their aims are to maximise profit in healthcare by prioritising resource into health prevention, primary care, and replacing hospital care with that of community based care, all run by private investment and private healthcare companies. As promised by Wes Streeting, hospital healthcare is being run-down and replaced with patients being responsible for the prevention of their own health problems via digital lifestyle and self-diagnostic tools and means of accessing primary care. All provided by digital gimmicks with no known record of accuracy enabling such diagnosis as ECG, Blood Pressure, via a wrist bracelet or two-fingered touch pad! The idea is that you diagnose yourself, access information via a digital mobile app or on-line, then go to the local community based private provider that you have been told to go to. Visiting a GP should be a last resort as is attending hospital The acquisition by HGCS Healthcare of ALL healthcare services formerly run by the NHS, follows a history of costly litigation for the NHS by both Virgincare as was and now named as HCRG Care Group as a result of private equity company Twenty 20 Capital buying up Virgincare. More and more litigation, just as in the US healthcare system, is costing the NHS millions in legal costs, and in lost contracts to the private sector. This cuts down the funding from an already wholly unrealistic budget available direct to the NHS! Source: HSJ / Corporate Watch / unionsafety / The Telegraph / Twenty20
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This represents the biggest such contract award by an Integrated Care Board in place of the NHS to date.
Streaking's aims have been choreographed by the private healthcare industry of the US and five major private healthcare and investment companies that now formulate the policy for healthcare in England - healthcare profiteers Bridgepoint, Bupa, Centene Corporation, Spire Healthcare and United Health Group (UHG). These companies made £4.6bn from public health contracts going back to 2013, in addition to a share of further tenders worth an eye-watering £61.87bn. And these figures relate to just five firms, among hundreds of others, who’ve raked it in through NHS deals over the years.