Death of the NHS will be May legacy
My 90-year-old mother was recently admitted to hospital at 9.30am and was finally allocated a bed at 10.55pm that evening. She was semi-conscious throughout on a trolley in the A&E corridor with numerous other patients in the same predicament. The hospital staff were excellent and were trying very hard in extremely difficult circumstances.
Where is the dignity or safety in lying on a trolley with other patients? What about MRSA or other infections which can be passed on in such surroundings? Why in God’s name does anyone vote for this heinous Conservative Government? Let’s hope there’s a general election soon and we get them out of office, once and for all.
Alan Raymond, Southport Merseyside
# If Theresa May is under the illusion she will go down in history as the Prime Minister who negotiated the best possible Brexit deal, she’s wrong. May, and her predecessor Cameron, wi ll be remembered as the PMs who destroyed the NHS – a disaster for the British people. We are hearing of patients dying on trollies in hospital corridors because of funding cuts. Unless something is done soon we are going to see many more avoidable deaths.
Dave Croucher Doncaster
# GPs seeing up to 70 patients a day, thousands of nurses leaving each year, people dead because of a shortage of ambulances, A&Es full, thousands of operations postponed and still clueless Theresa May and her even more clueless Health Secretary claim there is no crisis.
Before the last election the Tories lied by saying the NHS was safe in their hands, knowing full well they were going to rip it apart if elected.
Andrew Miller, Doncaster
# Hospitals in Australia and New Zealand struggled to cope with their flu season and now the UK is being hit with a double-whammy.
Firstly, the NHS is on its knees because of the Tory cuts, then there’s the bad weather and surge in flu cases, putting a extra pressure on the service.
The PM said there is no magic money tree, but she can find money to keep some people sweet, such as the French President, but there’s not a bean for NHS staff who are keeping the service going.
Mick Rutland, Stockton-on-Tees Teesside
# The NHS isn’t sinking under Jeremy Hunt, it’s being scuttled. The Tories opposed a publicly funded health service at its inception in 1948. Its privatisation would suit this Tory Government and would lead to rewards from private companies to those who delivered it into their hands. Does Jeremy Hunt ever look particularly worried?
Brian Pritchard, Chester
# On the subject of our crippled NHS, if the Tories had all the money in the world they would still deprive the NHS because they see it as another money-making opportunity to be run on a shoestring budget, with maximum profit for
themselves and their cronies.
Stephen Kelly, Wigan
# Is it any wonder the NHS is at breaking point when thousands of people are turning up at A&E and GPs’ surgeries with flu. Unless they are elderly or vulnerable, couldn’t they go to a pharmacist for advice? At the end of the day, they will eventually end up there with a prescription anyway.