IT SEEMS, once again, I have to answer Mr Siret’s incorrect accusations and statements.


I have never suggested cutting the NHS. I have only ever suggested that financing an organisation which is the biggest employer in western Europe should rightly be open to review and change, although I would always support any reduction in bureaucracy, the costs of which could be redirected to frontline health care.


I would also suggest he resists from making puerile suggestions about introducing myself to a nurse. I have done so for 40 years: to a trainee nurse, staff nurse, ward sister, district nurse, Marie Curie nurse and an NHS manager – for 37 years she has been my wife!
I also resent the comments about a nurse’s salary. They deserve every penny they earn.
 

As you would expect in a long-lasting, healthy relationship, my wife and I don’t always agree about everything, including the NHS for which she cares passionately and for which she will not enter into public debate.
As such, I believe I have every right to express views that unfortunately seem to provoke responses from Mr Siret which all too often descend into personal abuse such as “people like me” supporting this “nasty” coalition Government.


What does he know about my views of a Government which, due to its very nature, compromises, fudges and rarely makes decisive decisions about anything? Finally, Mr Siret ought to desist from reducing reasoned debate to personal abuse, for example, describing individuals as clowns, having grubby hands and implying that they are evil.
This sort of language is normally associated with those who wish to deflect reasoned debate.


IAN CUMMINGS,
Gibson Close,
Abingdon


 

This correspondence is now closed – Editor.