Letter: Time to put priorities of the NHS in order
It seems strange to me that at time when the President of the USA is fighting to ensure everybody in the States has access to a healthcare programme that politicians in the UK are doing their best to destroy the remnants of the National Health Service.
Over its lifetime the NHS has been used by the corrupt and greedy to further their own ends. The rewards of executives, surgeons and doctors have been far in excess of what the service is able to pay.
In order to afford these unaffordable salaries nursing services have been cut and ancillary services have been hived off to the private sector whose priority is not the client or the end user but the shareholder. Services are then pared to meet that priority. In addition we have the selfish individuals who continually turn up at A&E for a variety of reasons that are neither serious accident or emergency.
