What a shambles!

I RECEIVED a text message from my GP surgery this week asking me to submit my blood pressure reading.

Not only are GPs not seeing patients face to face, we are being asked to do our own tests at home. I could submit a fictitious reading and no one would know or check.

The text contained a link to a questionnaire via which I could send the reading, but it wasn’t working. What a shambles!

Mrs KATE LYON, Coventry. WE ARE told the elderly and vulnerable will suffer due to the closure of bank branches and the increase in firms only dealing with their customers online.

I find this attitude to be disempowering and unfair to a large and valuable sector of society. Not every older person is tech averse. In fact, many use social media via their mobile phones to keep in touch with their family and friends, as well as for entertainment.

Online banking is not rocket science and apps make it as easy as possible.

The Western attitude to ageing is dismissive enough already without this general assumption that those of retirement age and older are on the periphery of technological development.

In other countries, the older generation are revered for their wisdom.

FIONA CRAWFORD, York.