A RECENT news headline on the television said that the “NHS needs extra cash and overhaul”, which is obvious. But what can be done about it?

I believe the NHS should be financed by creating an NHS lottery. I can think of no objection to this course.

I have made this suggestion before, through The Press. I have written to my MP, who helped by referring my suggestion to the minister responsible for the National Lottery. It could not be put into effect because of the legal set-up for that lottery, but that is not to say a separate lottery could not be created.

Consider the benefits that it would bring to everyone in the UK. Not only to the patients, but to hospitals, doctors, nurses and others within the service.

Expensive drugs and treatments would be catered for and there would no longer be a need for people to raise charitable sums of money so that a dear one can get treatment in some foreign land, or to pay for some life-enhancing drug considered to be too expensive.

Unfortunately, I am 87, disabled and unable to do much, so I am appealing for some able-bodied person or organisation to get together and plan this worthwhile proposal.

D L Scorgie, Hawthorne Avenue, Haxby, York.