WHY is the Government and other agencies promoting the breakup of the NHS?

So much so that an observer would assume those who were promoting these ideas had never been in hospital, been old, or lived alone with no family to help them.

On one of the news items about this, while the lady was being looked after at home, she looked very comfortable.

It struck me right away that there was a doctor in the picture.

And I wondered how they would manage all the visits (although good for the mileage claims from anyone who attends the patient) and more to the point from a practical point of view, where will we get all the GPs and nurses who we are told are in short supply? I know in the ordinary GP surgeries, doctors are very reluctant to come out to see a patient at home.

In some cases they are at least willing to speak to the patient over the phone later in the day.

By that time the patient could have become quite ill.

How could they supply all the nurses, X-rays, blood tests and other mechanical processes needed etc?

Another ‘offering’ was that the NHS should stop doing knee operations.

A very foolish proposal, it would leave a lot of older people housebound and isolated because it would be very painful to get about.

We all know that there are vested interests hovering about, like vultures, awaiting to gather to spoils which would result from the demolition of the NHS.

We cannot allow these very half baked proposals to go ahead.

ANN HADDOW Warrington