Maybe the NHS can’t wait to get me off its list

At first I was pleasantly surprised when asked, in my NHS app, whether I still wanted to remain on a waiting list for a minor operation (Almost 10 million people in England could be on NHS waiting list, 3 April). I now wonder whether this was more about the government’s method of reducing waiting lists rather than my medical need.Nick PageWinchester

• I read your print headline “Invertebrate of the year: Celebrating

the diverse and spineless creatures of the UK” (13 April) and wondered why it wasn’t in the politics section.Shareen CampbellMiramont-de-Guyenne, France

• My mother came home from her teaching job as head of English very angry about a decision made by senior management (Letters, 11 April). She sat down and wrote two poems: Elegy on the Death of a Senior Mistress, and Epitaph for a Head.

Then, feeling much better, she got on with making our evening meal.Judith HerbertSharnbrook, Bedfordshire

• Regarding the suggestion of dashboard-mounted shredders for those with anger management issues, I have a tiny dashboard-mounted Buddha which, by the mere act of touching it, dissipates any anger and provides satellite navigation to the moral high ground.Adam BurdenAlton, Hampshire

• Guardian readers getting angry? Surely not – concerned, maybe?Dr Mark WilcoxHolmfirth, West Yorkshire

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Photograph: PA ‘I was asked, in my NHS app, whether I still wanted to remain on a waiting list for a minor operation,’ says Nick Page.