WHAT an excellent letter from GL Sampson, (Tuesday’s Oxford Mail ViewPoints), about competition in the NHS.

Now our Prime Minister has come out saying that he is “at one with Andrew Lansley”, over the Health & Social Care Bill the Con-Dem coalition is desperate to get through Parliament.

With that in mind, this Bill to privatise our beloved NHS could well be Mr Cameron’s poll tax, with so much hostility building.

So that means one of two things will happen when the Bill eventually fails.

Lansley will resign and Mr Cameron, being “at one with Lansley”, will also, fall on the sword.

Or the Government’s Bill will win and the NHS as we know it will end up like the US equivalent and totally useless, unless you have pots of money or a good insurance plan. I know which one I want.

Of course, if you happen to be a millionaire or a government minister, you’ll have no such worries getting the best health care money can buy to jump the queue.

For a so-called listening government, they are taking absolutely no notice of the vast majority of interested parties, including doctors, nurses and even GPs.

My elderly mother just spent hours in a cold corridor after being rushed in with a suspected heart problem.

Our family took in blankets, hot tea and other minor essentials. Never did she foresee an NHS so short of staff and lacking obvious leadership – and she was an NHS nurse for over 30 years.

I don’t think my mother deserves special treatment and we in no way blame the super hospital staff, nurses and doctors who are pulling against a sinking ship.

Surely everybody deserves decent care at the point of need, the whole idea of the NHS at its inception in 1948, called socialism by the way.

We must collectively tell this rabble in government to keep their grubby hands off our NHS, drop this new privatisation bill and how about getting back to basics and start with a reintroduction of matrons?

The NHS safe in Tory or Liberal Democrat hands? Never. And it’s about time New Labour started fighting back, instead of being almost as bad.

TIM W SIRET, Millmoor Crescent, Eynsham