I WRITE to you to ask you to urge your readers, in whatever suitable way, to lobby this Government to put a stop to their plans to go ahead with their major NHS bill.
They have ignored their promises to us all last year, and the views and opinions of the medical profession, and of so many patients themselves.
Their plans are unnecessary, unwanted, wasteful and damaging – and threaten to end the NHS as we know it.
At present they are ploughing on, ignoring public and professional opinion, and they are quite out of touch with Britain.
We need to make the Government listen before it’s too late.
I was an undergraduate in Oxford in 1948, when the Atlee government created the NHS, and I saw what a difference it made to so many families who for the first time were able to get reliable medical attention and hospital treatment.
If we do nothing now, so many of the great achievements of the NHS over more than 60 years will be lost.
DR CHARLES WICKHAM-JONES, Frenchay Road, Oxford
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