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Handing out leaflets in Watney Market protesting at surgeries being sold off
- Credit: Carol Saunders/Save NHS
Patients and NHS campaigners against privatisation have been protesting at the takeover of four surgeries in the East End, along with 45 others elsewhere, by an American health insurance giant.
Whitechapel Health Centre branches in Hessel Street and in Portsoken, together with East One Health surgeries in Deancross Street and Cable Street, are among 13 east London surgeries taken over by Centene, through its UK subsidiary Operose Health, in February.
A total of 49 practices have been handed over to the company, with NHS contracts affecting 390,000 patients in London and the South East, added to the 21 it already owns around the country, making it the biggest surgery operator in the health service.