SINCE the National Health Service was formed in 1945 it has become a political football to be kicked around by which ever party is in power.
There have been numerous health secretaries, chief executives, some good, some bad, some not able to organise a raffle let alone have the ability to run such a large, financially dependent, complex organisation.
Now is the time to find a new formula to enable the NHS to extract itself from the quagmire within which it currently exists.
Political interference has to be severely curtailed. Their constant meddling, reform, upheaval is imposed to purely satisfy their ideological conscience, achieving little but at enormous cost, with billions of taxpayers’ hard earned money wasted.
The NHS should be run by teams of people proven to have outstanding business ability, capable of working with and understanding the needs of the brilliant medical staff currently in post.
No, I am not advocating privatisation. This cannot be while taxpayers, through the Chancellor of the Exchequer, continue to provide finance.
Peter Rickaby, West Park, Selby
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