After several years of neglect, we now read that money is being diverted away from ‘urgent’ road repairs and spent on less urgent maintenance instead (September 10).

Perhaps the cash-strapped NHS could adopt the same principle? Cancel all emergency lifesaving surgery and concentrate on out-patient clinics instead. I’m sure they would make a killing.

Actually, the similarity between these two scenarios is not as far removed as first appears. They would both put lives at risk.

C.S.Brogden, Mill Road, Abingdon

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