NHS crisis

The bad news for Keith Howell and Dennis Grattan (Letters, 30 November) and the rest of us is that staffing pressures on our NHS will only increase as EU workers are not made welcome by the Tory government at Westminster, which has also failed to provide any new money to lift the one per cent public sector pay cap.

Philip Hammond’s budget has cut more than £200 million in real terms from money available for Scotland’s public services yet the Chancellor has committed more in extra funds to Brexit planning than to England’s NHS, which really is in crisis compared to Scotland’s much better performing health service.

However, the extra £350m earmarked for the NHS in England would normally, under the Barnett formula, produce an extra £30m in funding for Scotland, but cuts elsewhere in the budget mean that there is only £8m more for our health service.

FRASER GRANT Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh