While attending my local GP surgery I happened to pick up one of your leaflets: “Warning! Commercialising the NHS is damaging our health service”.

Although I agree with the principles of resisting the commercialisation of the NHS, and find the idea of ‘business’ running away with the “CASH” as depicted on the cover of the leaflet abhorrent; I would like to ask how the General Practitioners countenance this position, when given the opportunity for an inflated pay-rise and the option to ditch ‘Out of Hours’ cover for NHS patients – they snapped off the Government’s hand?
This was quite unforgivable, and frankly the service to patients in the community setting has never recovered from this opportunistic blow.

The use of Paramedics for OOH services and the flying-in of Doctors from overseas to carryout duties that were once those of our GP’s has been disasterous in some cases, and downright expensive in general.