IT SEEMS extraordinary that just as we have been told the NHS is running out of money, yet more handouts are going to GPs (“Cash up for grabs to improve access to GPs, The Press, October 29).

We are regularly hearing of payments to GPs for diagnosing dementia, money to do weekend working, initiatives such as a named doctor for the elderly.

Not so long ago, GPs did all that and more as part of the job. We seem to be paying a high price, which we can ill afford, to reinvent the wheel.

It appears that we have become strangled by an excess of tick boxes and bureaucracy which consumes the time of those working within the public sector, and to what avail?

Many of those working within the public sector complain of being overburdened by paper/computer workloads that takes them away from that which they were trained and wanted to do.

Catherine Porter, Crayke, York