Will voting to leave the EU save the NHS?

DR MAX PEMBERTON is inaccurate about the imbalance of payments linked to the system where Britain pays for our holidaymakers to have medical treatment in the EU, but the other members do not pay for their citizens who get treated in the UK (Mail). It is not a matter of our EU partners circumventing the rules at our expense, but because the NHS rarely invoices for treatment. The NHS is designed as a free service at point of care and does not want the extra work of doing the invoicing, even though we need the money. Dr Max also does not appear to value the work of the 10 per cent of NHS workers from the EU, but praises the 25 per cent from non-EU countries. JOHN DAVIES, St Ives, Cambs. AS A senior NHS nurse with more than 30 years’ experience, I agree with Dr Max Pemberton, who has said he is voting Leave to save the health service. The staff working in the NHS are best placed to comment on the immense strain it is under. The Remain camp argue we benefit from EU membership as the other member states provide us with nurses and doctors. Well, shame on the Government for failing to train more British nurses. Indeed, nursing salaries are suppressed because of recruitment from overseas. Name and address supplied. THE Remain campaign says that if we vote to leave the EU, the NHS will fall apart because it will lose staff from the Continent. The whole point of a points system for immigration is that we will be able to bring in the medical staff and other skilled workers we need and not the people we don’t. J. AMOS, Bexleyheath, Kent.