In my lifespan, so much has gone on around the world.

All kinds of horrific evil that it’s so hard to believe that any human being could even think of taking part in, groups of terror movements such as ISIS who will stop at nothing to reach their goal to murder anyone who does not agree with them.

We do our best to fight it, to halt these acts of evil and we condemn them for these atrocious acts. You would think there could be nothing worse and that it only happens in other countries. Then, out of the blue, my eyes are suddenly opened to the fact that there are those amongst us who are committing acts of degradation and moral corruption in our own country.

I refer to those despicable hospital managers who, after we are told the NHS is in crisis, take hundreds of thousands of pounds out of the system for themselves.

To think that they work in a place where people are in great pain, where people are dying, where every penny counts to help relieve pain and heartache.

I personally set them on the same level as the terrorist groups we are fighting against. They should be removed from their jobs and replaced with a more honest type who keeps their pay demands modest and realises that a hospital manager is no more important than all other staff who work in the hospital.

They must understand that if they have time away from their work, patients will still be looked after. If the rest of the hospital staff have time away, no patients will be looked after.

So come down off your pedestals, hospital managers, you are only as good as the staff who do the work, who without you would not even be employed and use all this extra cash towards better conditions for all.

BILL GOODWIN
Pebble Hill
Radley