Submitted by Caroline Yearwood on Thursday 26th October 2023
Published on Wednesday 8th November 2023
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Current Signatures: 321
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Contract independent hospital providers to enhance choice of public healthcare.
Contract independent hospital providers on the same basis as the NHS, to create real patient choice and help reduce waiting times. Give residents health cards to use at any approved hospital, including charitable, to access healthcare free at point of use. Government would then pay that hospital.
We believe the NHS is failing. It is costing the taxpayer hugely whilst failing to deliver for all the patients. Many other countries do not rely on a single national healthcare provider and we believe the UK should take a similar approach.
Empowering the patient with a Health card will create real patient choice of provider and should help create competition, which could lead to greater efficiency and productivity, plus a more timely service for the patient, whilst remaining free at point of use.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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