FOR the third time A Edwards has written to the Warrington Guardian condemning people for criticising the NHS and again uses the popularity and respect that the nation has for front line staff in an attempt to play down the barbaric privatisation programme inflicted upon it by this Government.

Can I state, for the third time, that nobody is criticising front line staff for what is happening to the NHS, one has only to read the letters of praise for them to see that; in fact, most front line staff are blaming the Government.

Before the last General Election more than 140 top doctors attacked the Government’s record on the NHS saying: "As medical and public health professionals our primary concern is for all patients. We invite voters to consider carefully how the NHS has fared over the past five years, and to use their vote to ensure that the NHS in England is reinstated."

Also in a recent talk on the privatisation of the NHS, professor Allyson Pollock stated: "The job of a commercial provider is to find a treatment that you don’t necessarily need but that somebody will pay for."

Many staff of all areas are worried that the NHS is being turned into a cash cow for investors who coincidentally happen to be Conservative ministers, MPs and party donors.

Also they are worried that profits will be siphoned off until a shortfall occurs and the contract handed back.

A Edwards’s time would be better put into campaigning for MPs to award front line staff a significant pay rise, say 10 per cent.

GRAHAM BRINKSMAN

Warrington