IT was with a wry smile that I noticed in last week an accusation by A Edwards levelled at Helen Jones (Warrington Guardian, October 13).

The wry smile was because I knew that either the accusation or the evidence to support it would be wrong. In this case it was both.

Helen Jones points out that for the best part of a year Cheshire and Merseyside NHS has been working on a sustainability and transformation plan, which could affect Warrington negatively, behind closed doors and without any consultation with herself or the people of the town.

A Edwards calls that playing political football with the NHS; I call it the electorate holding public servants to account.

For evidence A Edwards points to an article illustrating how complaints about the NHS Trust in Warrington are falling which seems rather pointless as nobody has accused it of anything and seeing as the article goes on to point out that enquiries to the local PALS team increased by 600 the truth of what is really happening is probably buried somewhere in the statistics.

A Edwards then quotes a hospital spokesman as saying ‘it is worth noting the many thousands of thank you messages, cards and social media posts we received each year’. As I’ve pointed out several times to A Edwards praise for the local NHS service is aimed at frontline staff for the efforts and not for trust bureaucrats paying themselves fabulous wages and redundancy payments when they have failed.

Meanwhile in the real world this is what is really happening: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says that accident and emergency departments are under pressure and in danger of collapsing and David Behan, CQC chief executive, said he had never experienced a crisis on such a scale during almost 40 years working in health and social care.

Hopefully this will all change when, thanks to those genius Brexiteers, the Government gives the NHS the £350 million a week that it used to pay into the EU.

GRAHAM BRINKSMAN Warrington