When Democracy is a danger to us

I am very disappointed with the voting results last week, not because I have particular views on the actual results, but how we now have no opposition parties.

True democracy can only be practised if powerful opposites are offering their party principles and plans for the whole country if they are elected. They also keep the government under a form of control against extremes.

A second and the most important issue today concerns doctors and the NHS. Apparently, after a serious moan to my local surgery last Wednesday, I found their modus operandi has been dictated from above. The NHS is so full of clerks, managers and know-alls, that we the general public who so frequently depend on our local medical services, are suffering daily hell in many cases.

Apparently, some MPs are of the view that the NHS requires a total reorganisation. About time. The NHS is so top heavy with expensive managers, huge administrations which are virtually remote from the doctors and nurses, plus emergency services.

Get back to pre-Foundation ideas, to the great services we were provided with by people who knew something about health care.

Local people may recall Professor Anne Sheen, the CEO at the RBH. What an amazing lady, who was also a qualified nurse.

In the meantime, revert all Surgeries to their pre lockdown states – see a doctor, not wait ages to talk to him or her by telephone, and not being obliged to send through a video/photo of your symptom. Reg Clifton, Wokingham