Health service staff have done a magnificent job during this pandemic - but we need to start investing properly in the NHS when this is over, says our correspondent. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire.
It’s commonly said that in the United Kingdom the nearest thing we have to a religion is the NHS. So after this crisis, let’s make it very clear to ‘the minister in charge’ that it’s time to repair the roof, replace the off-key organ and get those with the most to put more than ‘widow’s mite’ in the collection plate every week.
Richard D Bowen,
Farrar Street, York
Editor’s note: a ‘mite’ or lepton was smallest and least valuable coin in circulation in Judea in New Testament times
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