I AM an 82-year-old male.

On Thursday, September 26, I had an appointment for an echocardiogram at the Bicester community health clinic [Pioneer Square] at 11.10am.

My son-in-law very kindly took me. It was very difficult to find the place as the instructions were not very clear. We asked numerous people including a taxi driver, but no-one could help. After a 15-minute search we found it. It was not clearly signposted in their window, however I arrived inside at 10.45am for my appointment at 11.10am.

I was advised to arrive 15 minutes beforehand, but there was no-one on duty to book people in and take details. A man appeared on his way out and I asked him why the duty desk was not manned and he said that she was doing training upstairs. At about 11.15am a lady patient came out of a room and I was finally seen by a nurse who carried out my test very proficiently.

The desk was still not manned. To emphasise how poorly the premises were advertised, plus the fact that there was no-one on duty, a lady came in with her son for a dental clinical appointment at 10.50am for 11am and it was only when my nurse came to see me that the lady found she was in the wrong building – she should have been next door.

I found the whole experience chaotic and dreadful, and pity anyone else having to go to Bicester.

I believe that in the past this procedure would have been carried out at the John Radcliffe Hospital. God help us if this is the future of the NHS.

RW TAYLOR

Ashgate

Abingdon

I WOULD like to reply to David Williams’s letter (27 Sept). He says the referendum was a corrupt process. Wrong. It was a democratic vote agreed in Parliament to be put to the British people.

Total lies were told by the leave campaign, he says. He did not finish that paragraph by saying that as many or more lies were told by people who campaigned to stay in Europe, and what about David Cameron spending millions to send leaflets to everyone’s home supporting staying in. Is that democratic after he called for the vote?

He states the only way out of the Brexit mess is a second referendum or peoples vote, based on the terms that are on offer to leave or the option to remain. Sorry David you are wrong. That is like voting for remain or remain on Europe’s terms. No choice.

The decision to leave has been made. If you want a “people’s vote” (which I, along with millions of others believe is undemocratic) the choice should be. Do we leave based on the terms of the offer from the EU, or do we leave with no deal.

The end of his letter says floating arrogant anti democratic gesture politics will only make the situation worse, and yet that is what his letter is doing.

STEVE CHANDLER

Kennington

I FIND it very considerate of shadow chancellor John McDonnell in his Labour Party conference speech to inform the young and the politically-naive – and to remind the rest of us – that the financial policies of his type of socialist government would inevitably lead to a four-day week. Surprisingly honest!

GORDON BENNETT

Kennett Road

Headington