NHS can free up funds by cutting management

sir – NHS England says that pay rises for staff must be funded by cutting back on diagnostic capacity (Leading Article, July 20).

I propose, instead, that it axes some of the dozens of equality, inclusion and diversity manager posts that are currently being advertised with salaries of between £50,000 and £100,000.

In the past two years the number of NHS managers has doubled, while frontline NHS staff numbers remain the same. I can confidently predict that reducing managers would have no detrimental effect on NHS services. In fact, the exact opposite is likely to be the case. Dr Fiona Underhill

Woodford Green, Essex