Focus on NHS improvements

Sir, - The current state of the NHS in Scotland is a disgrace.

Members of the Scottish Government should hang their heads.

They have had control of the NHS in Scotland as a devolved issue for years and have slowly destroyed a once proud profession.

Perhaps some hard decisions now need to be made.

For a start, the Government should stop all financial aid to other countries.

We should stop bringing in refugees who have paid nothing and are getting everything.

They are a heavy burden and we should look at ways of making these holiday medical seekers pay up front or put them out.

The NHS in Scotland has irresponsibly closed and continues to close local community hospitals or wards, forcing the public to travel long distances to seek medical assistance.

Also to be tackled is the selfish, ignorant attitude of politicians who stand there praising hospital staff at the same time as sending them into poverty with the reduction and freezing of salaries while they make sure their own nests are nicely lined.

More money could be saved by stopping all the public funded little trips by the Government and NHS managers, instead forcing them to use video conferencing.

This Government would do better to stop its own private agenda on separation and concentrate on sorting out the NHS at the expense of everything else. Alastair W McLean. 43 Strathmore Street, Broughty Ferry.

The NHS in Scotland has irresponsibly closed and continues to close local community hospitals or wards, forcing the public to travel long distances to seek medical assistance