Patients need a champion to hear their voice
£25 STAR LETTER
I would certainly back the campaign for a patients’ commissioner. I had concerns about my brother’s treatment after he suffered a head injury and, trying to get an explanation, I was passed from pillar to post for almost two years. Eventually, I just gave up because it was so stressful and frustrating.
In meetings, telephone calls and letters, I must have been passed between more than a dozen people and none of them made me feel that my questions were being taken seriously. Some of them made me feel silly for asking them.
Patients are the most important people in our NHS and should have someone to speak for them. Name and address supplied
Indy talk can wait
Boris Johnson is between a rock and a hard place in Scotland. He needs to show himself up here but when he does, he’s accused of talking down to us. When he doesn’t people say he’s ignoring us.
I’ve voted SNP for years but they need to be careful starting on about another referendum again. I don’t think people want to hear about it. Not everyone thinks Boris Johnson has done that badly and every time Nicola Sturgeon says she doesn’t want to talk about independence, she talks about independence.
S Thomson, via email
A beetiful gesture
I read the column (Francis Gay, July 12) about the girl saving a bee by giving it a drink of sugared water.
One time a bee came into our summer house and as I went to shush it out I discovered it was struggling to breathe.
On closer inspection, it was covered in a white, glue-like substance. It had been caught in a spider’s web. I picked off the substance using tweezers, all the while the bee was struggling to break free. Eventually I got all the glue off and the bee gently soared away. It was a wonderful moment!
Mrs B Pollock, via email
Farewell, Johnny
I was saddened by the death of Johnny Beattie. I read that he was once asked by Ronald Reagan to write some speeches, during the then-us president’s visit to Scotland in the ’80s. I also remember Johnny’s many TV roles including as Malcolm in River City. Let’s always remember one of the hardest-working comedians, actors and pantomime dames Scotland has ever produced.
Iain Henderson, Glasgow
Farewell, Annie
My father was a huge fan of Annie Ross. I never really got jazz but since he died, I play her records and think of him. So I was sad to hear she had died, but smiled thinking of dad sitting in the front row in his best suit when she plays in heaven.
Elizabeth White, Paisley
My Sunday best
The Sunday Post keeps me going every weekend, plenty of reading and puzzles. Keep up the good work!
Brian Sinclair, Peterhead