Why Privatisation Is Killing the NHS [United Kingdom]

..I thought it would be useful to share with you the effects which the Health and Social Care Act are having on our NHS, and how privatisation is taking doctors and nurses away from frontline care, turning valued colleagues into the competition, and potentially jeopardising the fantastic services that we have spent years trying to build.

I've not seen a patient in three months! I normally do five clinics a week, and I think I do a pretty good job. In fact, I'm told my patients are missing me. That is comforting. But the reason that I have been away from my post for a quarter of the year is that I have been part of a tender team which is desperately trying to keep our sexual health and HIV service from being sold off and pulled apart.

...It all started in April 2013, when the NHS reorganisation, and the Health and Social Care Act, really put a knife in the back of our specialty. I'm a sexual health doctor and an HIV specialist. And what has happened to my clinical specialism? HIV care is now commissioned by NHS England...