It’s high time we reformed the ailing NHS

A South Central Ambulance Service patient transport service vehicle Picture: Ben Fishwick PPP-201105-115932003

Inevitably, as the anti-Brexit project fear-monger’s new found vocation as Corvid-scaremongers comes to its natural end, they’d find some new topic to latch onto!

But why does Fiona MacGreggor (29/5/20) believe the UK/US trade talks, independent of the EU, will lead to degrading of the NHS, animal welfare and defence against viruses, floral and animal?

She has clearly forgotten that it was the EU that had to bring its lousy animal welfare standards up to the far superior UK standards in agricultural husbandry. It was the EU’s borderless Shengen area which allowed the unchecked spread of viruses across European nation borders... and for that matter, illegal migration!

The EU remains an economic and social disaster area!

As to the NHS. From where does she get the bizarre idea that the USA trade talks will degrade the NHS? ‘Our’ NHS - not America - sets the high standards that its tendered contractors must attain be they America, German or Latvian pharmaceutical companies.

The high price the NHS pays is down to lack of competition, NHS mismanagement and the over-sentiment that blinds people to the NHS’s many failings!

The NHS desperately needs a major overhaul, a defined sense of purpose and the bringing back of opticians and dentists under the NHS umbrella.

It can be done if bold politicians and an unsentimental electorate ever allow it.

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