The NHS needs good shake-up not funding
ALL the funding in the world will never be enough for the NHS, until the rampant waste is stopped.
Over the years governments have caused great damage with their illthought out unworkable ‘reforms’ private funding investment (it would be interesting to see how much money this is costing) etc.
Added to this, there are people employed who are clearly not up to the job which they are so highly paid to do.
They are having to bring in expensive business consultants, unable (or just cannot be bothered) to seek out the best deals to obtain services and supplies, they resort to costly outsourcing services using agency staff and continue to use suppliers charging rip-off prices.
What is urgently needed is a good shake-up, rooting out and booting out the incompetents.
Stringent monitoring and above all complete transparency and accountability.
There are so many hard working, dedicated and caring people in our NHS.
It is unforgivable that those who lack these vital qualities are allowed to destroy what should, and can be, the great service that is what was intended to be at its inception 70 years ago. Name and address supplied
April fools to believe them
IN relation to the month of April this year, we were all continuously swamped with colourful glossy leaflets pushed through our letterboxes.
These were promoting prospective councillors for actions and promises from them in relation to requests in our individual wards at the local May elections.
But the huge cost of those leaflets with photos of themselves sometimes with prominent figures must have diminished all resources since what was written and pictured has restricted those promises being carried out.
April fools we were indeed! John Bottomley, Clayton
Can you give pet food?
CAN kind readers spare a tin or two of pet food to feed the rescue dogs and cats at Animals in Distress?
You can find them at Animals in Distress, Leach Farm, Swaindrod Lane, Littleborough, OL15 0LF or call the staff on 01706 371 731. I would be very grateful, thank you. Roy Baines, Skelmersdale
Firefighters are fantastic
THE Fire Service, Armed Forces, pilots and everyone else involved with tackling the moorland fires are doing a fantastic job.
They must be worn out. It is reassuring to know there are good people like that in a world of negativity.
I am incarcerated at HMP Buckley Hall. It’s times like this when a pragmatic approach rather than a bureaucratic stance should prevail. Get the prisoners to repay society and fight the fires. Philip Green, HMP Buckley Hall
Memories of Manchester
AS a typical Manchester urchin in the 1940s I roamed through Collyhurst to Smithfield Market in the Northern Quarter, as it is known today.
The barrow boys of Church Street, the smell of Tib Street selling rabbits, puppies, kittens and dayold chicks, straw and feed for animals. The dray horses delivering paper, to what today is called the Printworks.
I read the Roman lettering on Insurance and Bank Buildings giving the dates they were built.
Deansgate, now changed from Deans Gate, Hanging Ditch, now just a name on a wall.
As I walked home I thought about the Sandhills and Irk Valley, where I imagined the first settlers of Manchester lived.
Where the Irk is met by the Medlock, before joining the Irwell on its way to the Mersey.
What relics from Manchester’s past history must lay in Irk Valley.
The earliest maps of Manchester would be something to see, Eric Maney, Middleton