Sugar will fix NHS shambles

I spent years working in NHS procurement, so I am not surprised at the result of your investigation. The only way to solve this will be by bringing back something similar to the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency, which was disbanded in 2010. Until that is done, suppliers will continue to stitch up NHS trusts. Nigel Champken-Woods, Thame, Oxfordshire We need to appoint someone like Lord Sugar who would need only six months at most to save the NHS a fortune. D. Emery, Marchamley,

Shropshire This kind of waste is not only evident in the NHS but in too many decentralised, privatised or deregulated services – the bedrocks of a fair society. Alan Dyson, Folkestone