Wasteful NHS needs shaking up not handouts

IT’S difficult to disagree with a single line of Christopher Snowdon’s depressing analysis of the state of the NHS (Mail).

A more dysfunctional, inefficient and wasteful organisation would be hard to find. It is overmanaged, badly organised and in desperate need of reform.

A more effective service covering every aspect of health and social care is what is urgently needed to avoid yet more taxpayers’ money being wasted propping up an outof-date institution that is no longer fit for purpose.

Stifling control and petty bureaucracy besets the NHS, so a fundamental review of the way it operates is long overdue.

Simply throwing good money after bad is unlikely to deliver the improvements that are needed. RAY EARWICKER,

Sandhurst, Berks.