Follow the French

Alex Neil, the former NHS Cabinet minister and Health Secretary said that Scotland’s 14 regional health boards should be reduced to three larger bodies to improve scrutiny, and presumably be more economic, accountable and better managed.

He is quite correct in his views,but why didn’t he do something when he was in charge?

We have multiple layers of management and duplication in 14 health boards, with antiquated computer systems, and more managers than doctors.

The real answer to the problems in the NHS is to follow the French system, where those who use the health service make a small contribution to the costs. The NHS would have more money and on a Sunday the queues in A&E would vanish.

JAMES MACINTYRE Clarendon Road, Linlithgow