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What I am talking about is different, its a face to face interaction on a Skype type platform with a qualified doctor where they can even prescribe for simple ailments and arrange for the medication to be ready for you at your local pharmacy, the one I have been using is called push-doctor...

I agree that the NHS and social care budgets should be linked, I own a home care company and we see this ridiculous revolving door situation where patients are discharged in to the community without adequate care in place and then as a result end up back in hospital again. If adequate funds were...

This is absolutely pie in the sky! Look at how long it took for us to get the planning for the Amex through, any significant development in Brighton is extremely difficult regardless of if you are a business or publicly owned. The monopolies and mergers even had to step in to prevent my local...

Its not the way things work in practice with segments of the market like health care. It has been proven time and time again that the market fails to provide choice for consumers. Mobile phones for example are produced globally so it is very difficult for a provider to have a monopoly. Health...

Because of costs and logistics, its not simple to build and open a hospital. You end up with a monopoly which is one of the situations were the free market tends to fall down.

There is no evidence that costs go down because of health care privatisation, see previous graph on US per capita health care costs.

The comparison between a health service and mobile phones is a poor one. Mobile phones can of course be provided successfully within a free market economy, if apple was to remove the camera from its phones it would lose market share to Samsung etc. However a health service is a completely...

I am not aware of any evidence that contracting out to private companies saves money which can be then be diverted to frontline services. In my experience of working for a North London NHS trust for 6 years those services that were contracted out tended to cost the trust significantly more money...

You are completely missing the point, politicians have no input in the day to day running of the NHS currently, the main role is to set the budget and overall strategic policy. This wouldn't change under the sort of system you are advocating, the DofE would still set the budget for the company...

Its a publicly funded organisation but its not run by politicians, it is run by trusts who have boards of directors and management structures in place, NHS foundation trusts are semi-autonomous organisational units which have a degree of independence from the Department of Health. The department...

Politicians don't run the NHS, they set the budgets, the NHS is run by trusts which have governance structures in place and management similar to the way companies run.

So I take it you are talking about contracting out the whole NHS to a single company or the whole NHS becoming a shareholder company? No single company would be able to take that on as a whole and even if they could it would never work, imagine we find ourselves in a situation like with southern...

Are you talking about the government contracting out the services but still keeping them free or going down a US model where everyone pays for health insurance and hospitals are largely owned and operated by private businesses? The later is the only model where you would remove health from...