NHS needs to cull its deadwood managers

JOHN Willett of Trowbridge (Letters, November 5 – coincidentally Bonfire Night) certainly deserved the four columns he had for his letter, which was certainly written from the heart and the head.

The new Health Secretary should take note of him if the NHS is to survive. Only an idiot would ignore his advice. The trouble is, all these same idiots are in power and ‘running’ the NHS.

Beveridge and Bevan must be turning in their graves at how the NHS has morphed into the behemoth of their ideals for the health and wellbeing of this country.

For those who are really trying to do the right thing, it’s like plucking a chicken against the wind – they only end up with a mouthful of feathers!

For decades, the proper running and efficiency of the NHS has become the elephant in the room. Everyone in power has ignored it through political correctness and have been more than happy to run it from their ivory towers, even though the solution to the problem has been right under their very noses for decades.

It will take a Superman to take the bull by the horns and cull the dead wood which is destroying the most precious ideal which has set this country above so many others.

The motto of the NHS is “Respect and Dignity”. Whatever happened to it? Successive politicians and alleged ‘managers’ have done their best to put paid to that misnomer over the recent decades.

Edward Kynaston Lydney, Gloucestershire