‘Listening’ Government is hell bent on breaking up NHS

THE listening is almost over on the proposed changes to our NHS.

As far as I can see there doesn’t seem to have been that much publicity of how much “listening and full discussion” there has been.

Can I remind readers that it is now going to get very serious and the changes will take place if we are not careful.

Despite the fact that we live in our world-beating “democracy”, that is clearly saying to our Government we don’t want the radical changes you have been “listening” to.

Our NHS has been in place for 65 years and has grown in stature and usage, keeping up to the high standard of surgery and its aftercare. Plus the usage of very expensive scanners leading up to the very expensive CT scans which costs up to a £1,000 for a single person diagnosis. Shorter waiting times and shorter periods in hospital are a consequence.

This coalition is hell bent on breaking it up, democracy or not, whether we like it or not, and they have and are doing it on the basis of about 15 months against the 63 years of experience.

Remember the people who are doing this to us are paid from your taxes, with earnings and perks from about £75,000 to £150,000. They will be able to afford the parts that will become privatised, plus the fact that a lot of them will also have lucrative jobs to go to when they decide the time is ripe to get out and on to the NHS cost bandwagon, funded by its “democratic” population.

One thing that has appeared to happen is that the administration costs have and are being squeezed and lessons have been learned and cuts made with more to come. That was the area that was wrong so concentrate on that and leave the rest as it was. It would make more sense and be acceptable to our democratic population.

From: F Willis, Park Avenue, Hull.

IF David Cameron and Nick Clegg are so keen on listening to the people, why don’t they submit their NHS plans to a referendum vote?

They won’t because they know they will not win.

From: Andrew Coleman, York Road, Leeds.

THE priority must not be another NHS shake-up – a betrayal of David Cameron’s commitment before the last election to no top-down reorganisations of healthcare. It must be appointing better managers who drive up excellence rather than a system that allows discredited individuals to remain in the post.

As Tom Richmond wrote (Yorkshire Post, June 4), how will the changes identify, and root out, the incompetent practitioners of care?