Straight to the POINT

■ I AGREE hotel-style charges should be levied on hospital stays. The NHS gives us free treatment, but we shouldn’t expect it to also offer accommodation and food.

CHRIS PARROTT, Llangollen, Denbighshire. ■ DON’T blame the Government for all the NHS’s problems. Aren’t health service chief executives and managers paid a lot to make sure that it runs well?

R. DEWAR, Beeford, E. Yorks. ■ RADICAL reform of the NHS should include getting rid of all those paid a fortune to count paperclips.

GLEN MARRIOTT, Northampton. ■ IF WE privatise the NHS, we should follow the well-run models in Norway, Sweden and Germany, not the U.S. money-making machine.

MIKE NORRIS, Deal, Kent. ■ UNLESS it’s a genuine emergency, it should cost us all £10 to be seen at A&E.

CLIVE JACOBS, Aldenham, Herts.